Staff Engineer - Fraud Prevention

Skills

About the Role

You will serve as the technical steward and platform architect for consumer and business fraud systems. You will drive technical strategy, design and optimize ultra-low-latency backend services and high-throughput rules engines, build real-time feature pipelines and data access patterns, and mentor engineers while owning platform reliability and observability.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with proven track record operating at Staff Principal or Lead Architect level
• Deep expertise in building highly available distributed systems with strict ultra-low latency
• Hands-on experience with stream processing frameworks such as Kafka Flink SQS PubSub in production
• Advanced proficiency in polyglot persistence and tuning data models for Document Wide-Column and Relational databases
• Platform engineering mindset focused on reliability observability and developer velocity
• Proficiency communicating complex architectural concepts and driving cross-team consensus

Responsibilities

• Act as the overarching technical leader for multiple teams and partner with stakeholders to unify platform strategy
• Architect, design, and optimize ultra-low-latency backend services and a high-throughput rules engine
• Design optimal data access patterns, partitioning strategies, and caching layers across a complex multi-cloud database ecosystem
• Develop robust pipelines for massive parallel execution of real-time feature computations and aggregations
• Mentor senior engineers and drive high technical standards from conception to delivery

Benefits

• Generous compensation in cash and equity
• Early exercise for all options including pre-vested
• Work from anywhere remote-first culture
• Flexible paid time off and year-end break
• Health insurance dental and vision coverage for employees and dependents (US and Canada specific)
• 4% matching in 401k / RRSP (US and Canada specific)
• MacBook Pro provided
• One-time home office setup stipend
• Monthly meal stipend
• Monthly social meet-up stipend
• Annual health and wellness stipend
• Annual learning stipend