Fraud Engineer (Scam Hunter)

Responsibilities

• Own, design and build real-time fraud monitoring, alerting, and automated mitigation systems
• Hunt emerging threats: cashback farming, card testing, merchant abuse, friendly fraud, money laundry and malicious behavior inside the Ether.fi ecosystem
• Develop and tune advanced fraud rules, behavioral signals, and scoring logic
• Build internal tools, dashboards, and scripts that make the team dramatically more effective
• Define fraud strategy and operational playbooks that scale with the business
• Active communication with cross-teams and with external business partners to mitigate the fraud risks

Requirements

• Strong hacker/white-hat mindset: you get genuinely excited about weird patterns, scam tactics, and outsmarting attackers
• Exceptional ability to find hidden signals in noisy transaction and behavioral data
• Hands-on programming skills and experience building tools or detection systems
• High ownership, low-ego, and ability to drive results in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment

Nice-to-Haves

• Worked at a fintech, neobank, or issuer processor
• Exposure to web3/crypto-related fraud patterns
• Exposure to consumer fraud patterns
• Built or scaled early-stage fraud operations teams
• Knowledge of card/payment fraud mechanics (card testing, BIN attacks, friendly fraud, merchant collusion, etc.)

Perks and Benefits

• Competitive salary, performance-based incentives, and token allocation grant
• Opportunity to own fraud defense for multi-billion dollar products
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Global team with opportunities for travel across our 3 offices
• 4 weeks work-from-anywhere
• Company events and team-building off-sites