Senior Software Engineer, Engine Dynamics
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Job Summary
About the role:
We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join the Engine Dynamics team and help tackle some foundational challenges in how Forters Decision Engine evolves scales and maintains its reliability and agility over time.
The role is most suitable for backend engineers who love the business of software building and are passionate about the complex and delicate process of making big systems simpler. Its all about tackling the challenges of running truly big software in production and is suitable for engineers who can operate well in high and low abstraction levels.
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 insight-to-production experience for Forters Decision Engine. This means looking at the Forter engine development process as a product and making strategic changes to how we develop features in it either analytical or product-offering features. It means reducing complexity improving confidence reducing production faults and reducing the mental burden shared by all engine development teams. It requires understanding Forters core business well and knowing what a good development experience looks like.
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What youll be doing:
- Analyze debug and remodel the structure of Forters decision engine in a way that will streamline work and reduce toil
- Remove bottlenecks so engineering and analytics teams can focus on building high-impact work for our decision engine and shipping it faster.
- Own key parts of our engine including validation fault detection and developer tools
- Improve the journey from insight to production by treating our development process as a flagship product we genuinely care about.
- Make production more reliable so production issues stay rare even as the system grows and more contributors join.
What youll need:
- 5 years of experience building backend systems in large-scale production environments
- Strong Python / Java / Kotlin / Rust / Go skills
- Experience with cloud-native environments (AWS / GCP / Azure K8s Docker)
- Comfortable working on complex mission critical backends
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Strong communication skills
- Experience leading projects requirements gathering and product management
Itd be cool if you also have:
- Experience building or maintaining rich CD pipelines
- Experience with monorepo build systems like Bazel pants Buck
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 (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.
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
Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- AWS
- Data Structures
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
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
