Staff Software Engineer, Risk and Fraud

The role:

We're looking for a Backend Engineer to join our Risk and Fraud team. As a Staff engineer, you will be responsible for leading a small team of backend and ML engineers. You will mentor and guide your team into building highly scalable systems with micro service architecture serving both internal and external clients. If you are passionate about building systems from scratch, this is the right role for you. This team is responsible for  building the industry’s next-generation risk and fraud solutions. Our ideal candidate has a passion for clean code, a hunger to take on challenging and exciting projects and an unrelenting drive to learn and teach others. 

What you’ll do:

• Be an impactful contributor to the team to plan, design, and build elegant solutions
• Managing the complete software development process from conception to deployment
• Design and implementation of the overall architecture
• Ensuring the entire stack is designed and built for speed and scalability 
• Design and build REST API’s
• Design and implementation of continuous integration and deployment

• Generate ideas for new initiatives and technologies
• Domain expert on aspects of the payment processing industry
• Communicate engineering concepts and efforts with outside stakeholders in product marketing, operations, business, legal, and compliance
• Work in a fast-moving, highly-collaborative environment across multiple locations

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in a quantitative field (Computer Science, Software Engineering, etc.) or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of experience in backend software development 
• 6+ years of professional experience with Python
• Expert in AWS tech stack including Lambda, API Gateway, Kinesis Firehose, SQS, SNS, EKS, EC2, S3, IAM Roles, VPC Endpoints
• Experience in the specific tooling we leverage including Octopus, Envoy Proxy, Quart, Protocol Buffers, JSON, AirFlow, Spark
• Experience in creating IaaS using Terraform or related technologies
• Demonstrated professional expertise with design patterns, security, performance and usability
• Agile Development Experience, including working with continuous deployment technologies, such as Git/Gitlab
• Experience designing SPAs that interact with REST API endpoints 
• Fluency in SQL for data queries
• Familiar with working in a collaborative coding environment, refining designs together, working through code reviews and managing pull requests
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate to technical requirements
• Strong analytical and creative problem solving skills
• Ability to lead and mentor a small technical team            

Nice to have:

• Prior exposure to the payments industry and familiarity with risk and fraud solutions
• Familiarity with AI/ML, Sagemaker is highly desirable
• Familiarity with Snowflake
• Familiarity with web caching, load balancing 

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