Senior Software Engineer , AI

About the role:

Forter is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our AI Engineering team. Youll be part of a highly proficient engineering group that serves as the focal point for all AI engineering efforts constantly driving innovation and leveraging AI capabilities across teams and products.

AI is central to how Forter operates across the entire organization. It allows us to move fast and release features at a rapid pace empowers non-technical Forterians to utilize AI tools for increased efficiency and provides the backdrop for much of the innovation currently occurring in the company.

If this kind of working environment sounds exciting to you if you understand that engineering is about building the most effective and elegant solution within a given set of constraints consider applying for this position.

Why should you join us

This is a great opportunity to be at the cutting edge of the AI revolution helping to shape and build the AI platform for the future. Together well build infrastructure for autonomous and interactive agents enact AI guardrails and evaluation frameworks to ensure performance and safety and implement state-of-the-artAI and Agentic patterns.

This role presents a unique opportunity to enter the AI domain. For those with some experience in AI infrastructure it offers the chance to grow within a team that is evolving Forter from the AI experimentation phase to building and leveraging AI-powered products.

What youll be doing:

• Design build and maintain reusable AI capabilities - including models tools APIs and platforms that power both internal and customer-facing solutions
• Develop and maintain our internal MCP server that easily and securely exposes Forters vast data stores to AI agents
• Create and implement robust evaluation frameworks and AI guardrails to safeguard Forters value and ensure model reliability
• Establish deep expertise and sustainable AI engineering practices
• Promote AI readiness and track adoption across the company to build lasting impact
• Build and optimize RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems
• Take full ownership of projects: from gathering requirements from non-technical internal users to development deployment and operation
• Act as a consultant and advocate for AI engineering helping other teams leverage the platforms and tools you build
• Partner with teams across Forter to accelerate AI adoption and productization efforts

What youll need:

• 5 years of strong backend and server-side development experience building complex highly scalable systems
• Proven experience with at least one general-purpose language (preferably Python but not a must)
• Strong product management skills with the ability to gather and refine requirements from non-technical internal users
• A strong sense of ownership with some DevOps experience and a willingness to develop deploy and run projects end-to-end
• Strong familiarity with AI coding tools like Copilot Cursor or similar
• Experience working with public clouds (AWS / GCP / Azure)

Itd be cool if you also have:

• Familiarity with agentic coding tools like Claude Code or Copilot CLI
• Experience with Strands Agents (or similar agentic technologies) RAG systems or Bedrock
• Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol)
• Comfort working in a containerized environment

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.

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