Senior Software Engineer, Data Products
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2 days ago
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Job Summary
About the role:
Were looking for a skilled backend engineer to help design and build the core of Forters real-time data platform. As part of the Data Products team you will architect and implement high-throughput low-latency distributed systems that ingest process and serve massive data streams powering Forters fraud prevention engine and internal platforms.
You will tackle complex engineering challenges work with cutting-edge streaming technologies and build scalable data products that enable teams across the company to reliably consume and build on real-time data. As part of this work you will also build AI-driven engineering tooling and agents that help teams move more efficiently.
If youre passionate about real-time systems and want your work to have a multiplier effect across products and teams this role is for you.
About the Team:
The Data Products team builds and operates the real-time backbone of Forters data platform. We own the infrastructure and platform services that enable reliable high-scale data transport and consumption across fraud prevention analytics and product development use cases.
In addition the team builds AI-powered engineering tooling that helps teams accelerate the development and operation of data solutions. We focus on creating scalable reusable platform capabilities that improve engineering efficiency and enable teams to move independently at scale.
What youll be doing:
- Design and implement high-performance low-latency large-scale data pipelines and distributed services
- Work on complex scalability reliability and cost-efficiency challenges driven by Forters growing data scale
- Help shape the technical direction of Forters next-generation data platform
- Develop internal AI-driven tooling and agents that improve engineering efficiency and enable teams to build data solutions independently
- Own end-to-end delivery from requirements and system design through rollout and ongoing production ownership
What youll Need:
- 4 years handson experience as a backend / data / platform engineer building production systems at scale.
- Strong proficiency in at least one modern backend language (Java Scala or Python)
- Proven experience owning systems in production including monitoring troubleshooting performance and reliability improvements
- Experience with various database technologies such as MySQL S3 Aerospike
- Experience with data transport technologies such as Kafka SNS SQS or RabbitMQ
- Ability to drive technical initiatives from problem definition through implementation and rollout
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with engineering product and data stakeholders
It Would be Cool if you Have:
- Experience with one or more stream processing frameworks - KafkaStreams Flink or Spark Streaming
- Background in building internal data platforms selfservice tooling or data products consumed by other teams.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools or building internal engineering tooling that leverages AI
- Experience with K8s and Terraform
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.
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
