Senior Mobile Researcher
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Job Summary
About the role:
We are looking for a talented and creative Mobile OS Research Developer with a focus on iOS to join us in combating online this role youll play a key part in identifying and neutralizing sophisticated fraudsters in real-time at a large scale for some of the worlds largest enterprises. This role requires responsibility creative thinking and a can-do attitude to solving problems with non-trivial constraints - this is not a brute force hacking/reversing type role.
What youll be doing:
- Collaborate with a team of passionate researchers to solve modern digital intelligence challenges and uncover groundbreaking discoveries together.
- Research the internals of different mobile OSs with a primary emphasis on iOS find lesser-known APIs understand upcoming features and design innovative solutions to leverage them in our products.
- Develop code that runs on iOS and when applicable Android devices within Forters SDK (ObjC/Swift Java/Kotlin).
- Extract powerful data from the device while being extra careful about safety (zero crashes) and performance (battery network etc.).
- Take ownership of the entire data flow process from concept to implementation collaborating closely with analysts and engineers to ensure seamless integration.
- Deliver and publish SDKs to production which will be used by thousands of merchants to interact with tens of millions of users each day.
What youll need:
- A love for unraveling mysteries and digging deep into complex environments.
- 4 years of experience and proven expertise in mobile internals with a strong background in iOS or Android (iOS experience is a plus).
- Experience building modern mobile apps / SDKs OS Services APIs and development cycles.
- Awareness and familiarity with mobile developer concerns when building apps (security performance privacy compatibility etc.) at scale.
- Up-to-date knowledge of new OS beta releases and upcoming changes/features.
- Ability to identify risks and roadblocks that could impact our code/SDK/legal in the future.
- Experience developing backend services at scale (primarily - an advantage).
- Familiarity with reverse engineering tools and techniques (an advantage).
- Experience with XPC services (an advantage).
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 (and 2024)
- Forbes Cloud 100 (2024 and 2025)
- #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.
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.Required Experience:
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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
