Riskified Software Engineering Team Lead
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Job Summary
Riskified is currently hiring a Software Engineering Team Lead to join their amazing team
Riskified empowers businesses to unleash e-commerce growth by taking risk off the table. Many of the worlds biggest brands and publicly traded companies selling online rely on Riskified for guaranteed protection against chargebacks to fight fraud and policy abuse at scale and to improve customer retention. Developed and managed by the largest team of e-commerce risk analysts data scientists and researchers Riskifieds AI-powered fraud and risk intelligence platform analyzes the individual behind each interaction to provide real-time decisions and robust identity-based insights. Riskified is proud to work with incredible companies in virtually all industries including Acer Gucci Lorna Jane GoPro and many more.
They thrive in a collaborative work setting alongside great people to build and enhance products that matter. Abundant opportunities to create and contribute provide us with a sense of purpose that extends beyond ourselves leaving a lasting impact. These sentiments capture why we choose Riskified every day.
They thrive in a collaborative work setting alongside great people to build and enhance products that matter. Abundant opportunities to create and contribute provide us with a sense of purpose that extends beyond ourselves leaving a lasting impact. These sentiments capture why we choose Riskified every day.
About the role: Join Riskifieds Analysis Platform group as a Team Lead. Youll lead a team responsible for building the systems that power Riskifieds merchant order analysis - combining large-scale real-time backend infrastructure with advanced browser and device fingerprinting to authenticate genuine users and stop fraud during online transactions.
The team owns its work end-to-end: from feature planning with Product and Design through technology selection architecture coding code review and CI/CD deployment all the way to post-deployment monitoring. As Team Lead youll set the technical direction grow the team and stay close enough to the code to lead from the front.
The team owns its work end-to-end: from feature planning with Product and Design through technology selection architecture coding code review and CI/CD deployment all the way to post-deployment monitoring. As Team Lead youll set the technical direction grow the team and stay close enough to the code to lead from the front.
Youll be managing two complementary disciplines: backend engineers building highly scalable architectures for their machine learning systems and platforms (Scala Spark Kafka Kubernetes) and security software engineers developing JavaScript and mobile techniques for fingerprinting bot detection and spoofing prevention. Your role is to bring these together into a cohesive high-performing team.
Their Stack: Scala Kafka Redis Aerospike JavaScript Databricks Spark Kubernetes Docker AWS
Their Stack: Scala Kafka Redis Aerospike JavaScript Databricks Spark Kubernetes Docker AWS
What youll be doing:
- Lead talented backend and security software engineers as their direct manager supporting their growth and development
- Run the teams Agile development process working with Product to set objectives and build a development plan to achieve them
- Own the technical vision and architecture for highly scalable real-time and batch systems that serve Riskifieds core fraud-analysis offering
- Participate in hands-on development and code review
- Lead the hiring and onboarding of new team members
- Collaborate closely with research data science and product teams to define and implement new features and shape the roadmap
Qualifications
- 2 years as a Team Leader working with Agile methodologies
- 5 years of proven hands-on experience developing large-scale distributed highly available cloud applications
- Strong server-side engineering background ideally with Scala/Java; familiarity with stream processing and databases
- Experience or strong interest in web/mobile security anti-fraud or fingerprinting domains is an advantage
- Strong technical and product vision and the ability to communicate it to multiple audiences
- Proven track record delivering enterprise solutions from design through production
- Ability to inspire lead and mentor high-performing senior engineers
- Ability to deal with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment while staying focused on goals
- Strong customer focus excellent communication and relationship-building skills
- . in Computer Science or equivalent
Perks & benefits
- Hybrid mode of work
- Flexible schedule
- Healthcare benefits
- Fully-stocked kitchens
- Wellness program
- Celebrations and activities
- Team events
- Happy hours
- Awesome Riskified gifts and swags
- Volunteer programs
- Personal development
- Global onboarding
- Role-based technical skills training
- Full access to Udemy
If youre ready to take on impactful challenges and excel in a collaborative forward-thinking team we encourage you to get in touch with us
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