Senior Software Engineer II, ICE

About the role:

The Identity Group stands at the core of Forters competitive edge in the market. The group is in charge of creating the engine that identifies clients and builds Forters knowledge of them. Due to its criticality Forters identity engine is a focal point from both a business and a technical perspective. That centrality means that we are always looking for new ways to make the engine faster easier to modify with higher throughput and better accuracy.

Were looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer to join the Identity Data team. The team is in charge of the critical data pipeline that processes and aggregates the huge quantity of events that over time build Forters identity data corpus.

Why should you join us

The Identity Data team is the place for those who are passionate about data and scale.

We handle >2B person entities stored jointly in various database engines to support different fetching requirements while processing >200k events per second

The team provides services to all Forter decisions generating some of the most critical model inputs

We are one of the major contributors to Forters decision latency and cloud expense and as such we are always improving our engines reducing cost and latency and have the organizational credit to make high-risk / high-reward investments in cutting edge technologies

If you are up for the challenge of being in one of the most critical teams in the organization which holds part of the secret sauce of Forters success we are the place for you!

What youll be doing:

• Have a key part in improving the systems helping Forter prevent fraud for our merchants by identifying millions of decisions a day
• Design build and maintain Near-real-time data pipelines
• Take initiative: A large portion of the work are initiatives are pushed by the engineers
• Work in a rich ecosystem of storage and data technologies to name a few: Elasticsearch Aerospike Spark Redis RocksDB S3 Snowflake and many more
• Provide software solutions to complicated challenges we face on a daily basis

What youll need:

• 6 years of proven experience in designing and building large-scale production systems.
• Strong Java and/or Python skills.
• Experience (or good familiarity) with streaming technologies such as Storm Flink Spark Streaming.
• Familiarity with concepts such as Queue/DLQ Topics and general streaming practices (backpressure circuit-breaker etc).
• Experience with various databases or data stores such as Elasticsearch Redis MySQL Couchbase MongoDB Cassandra Aerospike etc.
• Experience with AWS or other public clouds.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Itd be cool if you also: not a must

• Profiled and optimized code to the millisecond level.
• Experience with event streaming frameworks.
• Strong written-English skills

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 Certification ()
• Fortunes Best Workplaces in NYC (2022)
• #3 on Fast Companys list of Most Innovative Finance Companies (2022)
• Forbes Cloud 100 (2021 2022)
• 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 500 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 Nordstrom Priceline Instacart and ASOS 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.

Forter is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that will consider all qualified applicants regardless of race color religion gender sexual orientation marital status gender identity or expression national origin genetics age disability status protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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