Senior Software Engineer II – Engine Dynamics
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Job Summary
About the team
At Forter where ideas drive innovation complexity is the main friction that slows ideas from becoming reality and thus our biggest productivity challenge.
The Engine Dynamics team owns the insighttoproduction experience for Forters Decision Engine. We treat the engine development process as a product: reducing complexity improving confidence lowering production faults and easing the mental load on all engine development teams.
About the role:
Were looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer II to lead multiquarter initiatives that shape how Forters Decision Engine is designed developed and operated with impact that clearly goes beyond a single team. Youll combine handson backend work with technical leadership simplifying complex systems improving developer experience and raising reliability at scale for multiple engine teams.
What you will be doing:
- Lead multiquarter teamscoped projects that change how we build validate and ship engine changes from problem definition to rollout.
- Remodel key parts of the Decision Engine and its tooling to reduce toil simplify workflows and make complex changes safer and faster to deploy.
- Own critical engine platform components (validation fault detection developer tools) used by multiple engine teams.
- Turn ambiguous enginelevel problems into clear plans breaking them into milestones aligning stakeholders and driving execution.
- Mentor engineers in and around the team raising the bar via design reviews pairing and clear technical guidance.
Who are you
- 7 years of experience building backend systems in largescale missioncritical environments acting as a technical lead for substantial projects.
- Experience working on high-scale production systems ideally in areas involving data-intensive flows or distributed data stores.
- Deep familiarity with cloudnative environments (AWS / GCP / Azure Kubernetes Docker) and productiongrade observability and deployment practices.
- Proven track record of leading multiquarter teamscoped projects endtoend including collaboration with product/analytics/other engineering teams.
- Strong skills in one or more of Python / Java / Kotlin / Rust / Go and solid understanding of modern backend architectures.
- Demonstrated subjectmatter expertise in at least one relevant domain (e.g. distributed backends developer productivity tooling CI/CD runtime reliability data/stream processing) and comfort working in highambiguity areas.
Itd be really cool if you also:
- Experience materially improving team productivity via CI/CD build systems or internal developer platforms.
- Experience defining and driving engineering standards adopted beyond a single team.
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 (2025)
- Fortunes Best Workplaces in NYC (and 2025)
- Forbes Cloud 100 (2024 and2025)
- Anti-Fraud Solution of the Year at the Payments Awards (2024)
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.
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.
If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability please email us at. This information will be treated as confidential and used only for the purpose of determining an appropriate accommodation for the interview process.Hybrid work:
At Forter we embrace a hybrid work model that blends in-person connection with the flexibility of remote work. Team members based near our key hubs are expected to work from the office at least three days per week. We believe that regular face-to-face collaboration fuels professional development strengthens our culture and builds the relationships that help teams thrive.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
Forter provides new generation fraud prevention to meet the challenges faced by modern enterprise e-commerce. Only Forter provides fully automated, real-time Decision as a Service™ fraud prevention, with approve/decline decisions backed by a 100% chargeback guarantee. The system elimi ... View more
