Senior Software Engineer ll, Decision Engineering
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18 hours ago
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Job Summary
About the role:
Forter is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Decision Engineering team. The group is responsible for the real-time low-latency infrastructure that powers Forters fraud decisions and external APIs.
Our systems process billions of requests every day ensuring high availability security and performance at global scale.
In this role youll work on core backend components such as our decision engine ingestion and enrichment pipelines schema management systems and self-serve API platform. The software you build will power critical business decisions and directly serve some of the worlds largest merchants.
This is a high-impact high-ownership position for an engineer who thrives on solving complex distributed systems challenges cares deeply about production-grade quality and wants to shape the foundation of Forters decisioning platform.
What youll be doing:
- Design build and scale backend systems that power Forters real-time decisioning and APIs.
- Own projects end-to-end -from design and implementation to production rollout and monitoring.
- Ensure systems are low-latency fault-tolerant and high-throughput across distributed environments.
- Enhance observability reliability and developer experience through strong operational and tooling practices.
- Collaborate with Product analysts data scientists and infrastructure teams to drive innovation across Forters decision ecosystem.
- Participate in technical discussions and customer interactions providing expertise and clear communication when supporting enterprise integrations.
What youll need:
- 6 years of experience building backend systems in large-scale production environments
- Strong programming skills in Python Java Kotlin or
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native technologies (AWS Kubernetes Docker)
- Proven ability to design and maintain high-scale distributed systems
- Strong sense of ownership autonomy and accountability
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex systems clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences including direct collaboration with customers worldwide
Itd be cool if you also have:
- Experience with API Gateway architectures schema/versioning strategies or platformization efforts
- Familiarity with real-time data processing frameworks (e.g. Flink Storm) and resilience patterns
- Background working alongside data science or machine learning teams
- Contributions to developer platforms infrastructure services or internal tools improving engineering velocity
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
