Staff Engineer - Fraud Prevention
AI risk platform that helps financial institutions prevent fraud, ensure compliance, and detect money laundering through behavioral analysis and device intelligence.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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About Sardine
Sardine helps financial institutions prevent fraud and ensure compliance by analyzing user behavior and device intelligence in real-time. Users can detect identity theft, payment fraud, account takeovers, and money laundering while streamlining KYC/AML processes. Sardine provides risk management with AI agents, case management, and regulatory reporting tools.
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About the Role
Serve as the technical steward and platform architect for consumer and business fraud systems. Drive technical strategy, optimize ultra-low-latency backend services and high-throughput rules engines, build real-time feature pipelines and data access patterns, mentor engineers, and own platform reliability and observability.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience with a proven track record operating at Staff, Principal, or Lead Architect level.
- Deep expertise in highly available distributed systems with strict ultra-low latency.
- Production experience with stream processing frameworks such as Kafka, Flink, SQS, and PubSub.
- Advanced proficiency in polyglot persistence and tuning Document, Wide-Column, and Relational database models.
- Platform engineering mindset focused on reliability, observability, and developer velocity.
- Ability to communicate complex architectural concepts and drive 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 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
- Remote-first work-from-anywhere culture
- Flexible paid time off and year-end break
- US and Canada health, dental, and vision coverage
- 4% matching in 401k or RRSP
- 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