Staff Software Engineer, Growth Engineering

About the role:

Forter is looking for a Staff Software Engineer Growth Engineeringto lead the technical strategy and architecture of our merchant Onboarding Experience platform. Your mission is to slash integration time from months to weeks (or less) cut internal hand-offs and unlock faster time-to-revenue. Operating as Forters most senior engineer in North America youll bridge Go-to-Market teams with global R&D hunting for friction proposing bold initiatives and driving them end to end.

What youll be doing:

• Spot scope and lead high-impact onboarding initiatives: SDKs schema-aware mapping automation enhancements to our Integration Center and self-serve validation pipelines.
• Architect and evolve a multi-tenant onboarding platform that copes with Forters vertical-specific schemas while remaining simple for merchants developers.
• Partner cross-functionally with Implementation Engineering Customer Success Support Analytics and Sales to translate real-world pain points into reusable platform capabilitiesnever one-off projects.
• Mentor and multiply: guide North America-based engineers via design reviews ADRs and architecture sessions; represent the Onboarding Experience team in company-wide forums.
• Drive the technical vision and long-term roadmap ensuring the platform directly supports Forters strategic goalsaccelerating revenue growth reducing time-to-revenue and simplifying revenue diversification
• Champion developer experience: clear docs open-source examples automated tests friction-free releases so our platform becomes a strategic differentiator.

What youll need:

• 8 years building production systems and developer-facing platforms with 2 years at Staff-level (or equivalent) owning architecture and cross-functional initiatives.
• A track record of shipping SDKs APIs or tooling that external engineers rely on and iterating via docs samples and community feedback.
• Hands-on depth with and AWS-based architectures.
• Business-impact mindset: comfortable measuring success in time-to-integration and revenue acceleration.
• Stellar communication and influence skills; you translate between technical product and commercial languages with ease.
• Self-directed entrepreneurial approach: you find problems align stakeholders and drive to results without formal process.

Would be cool if you have:

• Experience tackling schema-on-read / data-model variation challenges.
• Background in partner solutions or developer advocacy engineering: creating code samples or tooling at scale
• Experience working with eCommerce platforms and understanding merchant data flows
• Exposure to payments infrastructure especially providers like Stripe Adyen Braintree or Worldpay

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 (2024)
• Fortunes Best Workplaces in NYC (and2024)
• Forbes Cloud 100 (and2025)
• #3 on Fast Companys list of Most Innovative Finance Companies (2022)
• Anti-Fraud 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.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• Matching Retirement Plan
• Comprehensive and generous health insurance including vision and dental coverage
• Generous PTO policy
• Half day Fridays

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