Senior Backend Engineer II Billing - Data Platform

About the Role:

Forter is looking for an experienced Senior Engineer to join our Billing Platform team.

Our Billing Platform is the backbone of every product we launch and every key deal we close. You will play a critical role in shaping the infrastructure that drives our billing processes directly impacting Forters revenue and growth.

As we continue to scale and introduce new products were looking for passionate engineers who are eager to take ownership of complex systems and make a significant impact.

If youre excited about designing and building robust scalable systems wed love for you to join us in shaping the future of Forters Billing infrastructure.

Why you should join us:

Youll be building scalable highperformance services that handle massive volumes of data ensuring the accuracy and reliability of our operations.

Youll tackle complex challenges around data scalability performance and system architecture all while collaborating with crossfunctional teams to deliver robust impactful solutions.

What youll be doing:

• Design build and maintain scalable and resilient systems that handle highvolume data while collaborating with teammates and individual contributors at Forter
• Take ownership of projects from concept to production ensuring the highest quality
• Work on datadriven initiatives that improve system performance efficiency and billing accuracy
• Work with Product Managers to define features and scope guiding technical decisions and tradeoffs to align with company goals.
• Collaborate in an environment involving various stakeholders within the company
• Help foster best practices and mentor team members to maintain a high standard of engineering excellence

What youll need:

• 7 years of experience developing and maintaining production systems
• 2 years of thorough Python experience
• Proven track record in leading technical projects through all phases of the software development life cycle ensuring high engineering standards from requirements to deployment and ongoing maintenance
• Familiar with DevOps tools and practices including CI/CD deployment pipelines observability and quality assurance (unit integration testing)
• Proficiency in various storage solutions such as MySQL Snowflake and Redis
• Experience with AWS or other public cloud services
• A proactive attitude and a passion for providing technical solutions that bring an immediate business impact and ensure engineering excellence

It would be cool if you have:

• Familiarity with NoSQL data stores such as Elasticsearch
• Experience building and maintaining data pipelines using industrystandard frameworks like Airflow Kafka Delta Lake etc
• Experience with Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms
• Previous background in the fintech industry

About us:

Digital commerce is built on trust. At every point along the eCommerce journey businesses must make a critical decision: Can I trust this customer Answering this simple question accurately and instantly is powerfulit can accelerate revenue growth and strengthen a companys connection with its customers. How do we do it Forter was founded on the insight that its not about what is being purchased nor where but who is behind the interaction.

The Forter Decision Engine finds patterns across more than one billion identities in our dataset. We isolate fraudsters and protect customersensuring everyone gets the experience they deserve. Given that trust is central to how we operate Forter is very much driven by a defined set of values. We attract remarkable talent and have retention and engagement levels that are well above benchmarks. Were meticulous about strengthening our culture as we grow and ensuring this is an environment where people can have outsized impact.

Trust is backed by data Forter is a recipient of over 10 workplace and innovation awards including:

• Great Place to Work Certification2024
• Fortunes Best Workplaces in NYCand 2024
• Forbes Cloud 100and 2024
• #3 on Fast Companys list of Most Innovative Finance Companies 2022
• AntiFraud Solution of the Year at the Payments Awards 2024
• SAP Pinnacle Awards New Partner Application Award 2023
• Fintech Breakthrough Awards Best Fraud Prevention Platform 2023

Life as a Forterian:

We are a team of over 600 Forterians spread across 3 different continents. Since 2013 weve raised $525 million from investors such as Tiger Global Bessemer Sequoia Capital March Capital and Salesforce Ventures. Were on a mission to bring trust to global digital commerce so that companies like Adobe ASOS eBay Instacart Priceline and Nordstrom can block fraud drive revenue and improve customer experience.

At Forter we believe unique people create unique ideas and valuable experience comes in many forms. So even if your background doesnt match everything we have listed in the job description we still encourage you to apply and tell us why your skills and values could be an asset to us. By welcoming different perspectives we grow together as humans and as a company.

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