Staff Engineer, DevEx Full Time

Samsung NEXT

About the role:

Forter is looking for aStaff Software Engineer with broad experience building state-of-the-art services and systems and leading large multi-team efforts to join our Platform Engineering’s DevEx team.

Forter provides a new generation of fraud prevention to meet the challenges of modern enterprise e-commerce. Only Forter provides fully automated, real-time Decision as a Service fraud prevention that gives approve/decline decisions backed by a 100% chargeback guarantee. The system eliminates the need for rules, scores or manual reviews, which makes fraud prevention friction-free. The result is fraud prevention that is invisible to buyers and empowers merchants with increased approvals, smoother checkout and a near elimination of inaccurate decisions – meaning more sales and happier customers. Behind the scenes, Forter’s machine learning technology combines advanced cyber intelligence with behavioral and identity analysis to create a multi-layered fraud detection mechanism.

We processed eCommerce transactions worth over $200B and provided billions of critical decisions via our API in 2020. This is why we care a great deal about reliability and latency. Every request we process is important to everyone involved. We can’t go down, because our customers’ businesses depend on us. If this kind of working challenge sounds exciting to you, if you also believe that Engineering is about building the most effective and elegant solution within a given set of constraints – this is the opportunity for you.

The DevEx team’s mission is to enable Forter’s engineering teams to develop services in the most efficient manner, because we believe that their experience is about performance, innovation, scale readiness resulting in software quality, time to market, and productivity.

How do you create a great developer experience and provide tools that help create an impact in the engineering organization? How can we pave the path to effectively develop and maintain an environment and tools that empower developers so that they’re able to implicitly take care of all engineering important aspects (e.g. providing a meaningful and extendable boilerplate)? How do we provide insights to engineers about their systems? These are the kinds of questions and challenges we tackle on a daily basis, because we believe that developer experience matters, and we are constantly looking to find better ways of doing things at Forter.

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What you will be doing:

• Design, build and maintain the core developer tools used by all of Forter’s engineering teams
• Plan and conduct rollout of technical projects internal to the platform group and across teams/groups
• Lead hands-on, complex development efforts while working closely with teammates and other individual contributors at Forter
• Work with a variety of programming languages and platforms
• Brainstorm features with technical product managers and your peers and guide decisions based on your knowledge of the codebase and past experience
• Mentor other engineers to support their growth and development

Who are you?

• Experience writing and maintaining backend systems using modern programming languages (i.e. Python, Go, Java.)
• Experience with technical leadership role
• Experience working or building CI systems deployed across multiple, geographically distributed regions
• Hands-on experience managing and scaling developer tools
• Extensive experience working with public clouds (i.e. AWS, GCP, Azure)

It’d be really cool if you also:

• Have vast experience with developing tools that help developers deliver high quality with high confidence, preferably in Kubernetes environments, Ephemeral environments, boilerplates that developers want to use
• Like to deep dive into scale issues in large scale environments

Benefits include:

• Competitive salary and commission plan
• Private health insurance, including vision and dental coverage
• Stock options
• Generous PTO policy
• Half day Fridays, every Friday
• Work from home allowance

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 powerful-it can accelerate revenue growth and strengthen a company’s connection with its customers. How do we do it? Forter was founded on the insight that it’s 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 customers-ensuring 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. We’re 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 (2021, 2022, 2023)
• Fortune’s Best Workplaces in NYC (2022)
• on Fast Company’s list of “Most Innovative Finance Companies” (2022)
• Forbes Cloud 100 (2021, 2022 )
• 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 500 Forterians spread across 3 different continents. Since 2013, we’ve raised $525 million from investors such as Tiger Global, Bessemer, Sequoia Capital, March Capital and Salesforce Ventures. We’re on a mission to bring trust to global digital commerce so that companies like Nordstrom, Priceline, Instacart and ASOS 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 doesn’t 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.

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