Engineering Manager, Research Engineering
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About the role:
Forter is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Research Engineering team.
At Forter analysts are core to our business and are half of total R&D.
You will design and build the self-service analytics this is the daily driver for Forter analysts and serves as a force multiplier to employees across the company.
Analytics are central to how Forter operates across the entire organization.
They power our decisions which are our business and enable us to move fast and release features at a rapid pace and provide the backdrop for much of the innovation currently occurring in the company.
Why should you join us
This role provides a rare opportunity to lead a team of talented engineers while driving a substantial part of the team roadmap.
Youll be building your team and identifying the missing pieces of your puzzle youll be working with a variety of internal and external stakeholders of different backgrounds and agendas youll lead critical long-term initiatives directly impacting top company goals and youll define and own the domains strategy and vision for years to come.
What you will be doing:
- Build and lead a team of 4 experienced Backend Engineers
- Initiate and own complex development projects work with stakeholders to define features and scope and guide decisions and tradeoffs
- Collaborate with staff & principal engineers and analysts from across the organization.
- Managing relationship with our various vendors (DBX SF and more)
Who are you
- Managed 3 engineers for 3 years with 5 years of experience working with large scale research systems (Snowflake/DBX)
- Passion and experience overseeing a products lifecycle - from vision through requirements gathering to CI/CD cycles
- Have a mentorship mindset and the passion to guide engineers towards achieving their career growth goals
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills - can talk and explain at the right level of abstraction to different audiences and can build cross-org relationships at multiple levels
- Have a continuous improvement mindset and can-do approach
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 (and 2024)
- #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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Key Skills
- Hospitality Experience
- Go
- Management Experience
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Mechanical Engineering
- Team Management
- Leadership Experience
- Mentoring
- 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
