Senior Software Engineer, ML Platform

About the role:

Forter is looking for a Senior Engineer with a data engineering background to join our growing ML Platform team. This is a great opportunity whether you have experience with ML and are looking for a ML focused product or are an experienced Data Engineer looking to enter the world of ML. Together well provide tools to develop more effective models get them into production faster and ensure that they continue to perform well over time.

ML is central to Forters work. It enables us to process billions of $ worth e-commerce transactions make decisions in real time identify fraud rings and quickly detect new attack methods. Precision is crucial - bad decisions by our models cost us directly and put money into the pockets of fraudsters.

Our adoption by merchants around the world provides us with billions of fresh data points each day. Our team of data scientists analysts and cyber intelligence specialists continually identify new signals engineer new features and research new models. But as the volume of data and the number and complexity of models grows so do the engineering challenges.

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

Youll be part of a highly proficient engineering team that is a focal point for all ML engineering activity striving to constantly bring innovation and leverage ML capabilities across all company teams and products.

This role presents a unique opportunity to enter the ML domain. For those already experienced in ML infrastructure it offers the chance to grow within a team that specializes in high-scale Big Data and ML systems.

What you will be doing:

• Designing building and maintaining the ML infrastructure that allows Forters models to make billions of real-time decisions every year.
• Building a platform that enables managing a full ML model lifecycle - from researching to training deploying and serving predictions in real-time.
• Building distributed data processing pipelines to support model development.
• Acting as a consultant to researchers data scientists and expert analysts and enabling them to research new models faster and with greater precision by providing cutting-edge tooling.
• Expanding our ML infrastructure to make it scalable quick and efficient to bring diverse models to production and to monitor their performance and drift over time.
• Expanding the pool of internal customers able to use ML at Forter. Work with them to understand their needs and help them make the most of the infrastructure that well provide.
• Acting as an advocate for MLOps continually improving our processes and raising our standards.

Who are you

• 4 years experience with large-scale data processing ideally with Apache Spark.
• 5 years developing complex software projects with at least one of general-purpose languages (preferably Python but not a must)
• Backend and server-side development experience of complex highly scalable systems
• Experienced with machine learning concepts and frameworks.
• Motivation to understand the needs of internal users provide them with great tooling and teach them how to use it.
• Experience working with public clouds (AWS / GCP / Azure)
• Fluent in written and spoken English

Itd be really cool if you also:

• Are familiar with Databricks or Airflow.
• Are comfortable in a containerized environment.
• Have experience with maintaining highly available low latency real-time services

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 ()
• Fortunes Best Workplaces in NYC (2022)
• #3 on Fast Companys list of Most Innovative Finance Companies (2022)
• Forbes Cloud 100 (2021 2022)
• 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 500 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 Nordstrom Priceline Instacart and ASOS 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.

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