EZCORP runs a high-volume financial services and retail operation - pawn loans and pre-owned merchandise sales - across hundreds of locations in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Latin America. Founded in 1989, the company has scaled from 16 pawn stores to a workforce of over 6,000. The threat surface is broad: customer-facing transaction systems, point-of-sale infrastructure across a sprawling physical footprint, a mobile app (EZ+ App) handling payments and account management, and the sensitive financial data baked into short-term secured lending.
Security teams here aren't protecting a single SaaS product - they're defending a hybrid environment where retail POS terminals, mobile endpoints, and back-office financial systems intersect. That means PCI DSS compliance is table stakes, but so is securing a customer base that transacts in collateralized loans involving high-value personal property like gold, jewelry, and electronics. The attack vectors span fraud, data exfiltration, and operational disruption across multiple jurisdictions with different regulatory regimes.
EZCORP operates in financial services and retail simultaneously, which creates layered compliance and security demands. Any security engineering or operations role will involve working across the full pawn-lifecycle stack - from intake and appraisal to loan servicing, payment processing, and merchandise resale. The geographic spread across North and Latin America adds complexity around data residency, regional threat intelligence, and incident response coordination.
