Staff Engineer - Fraud Prevention

Responsibilities

• Act as the overarching technical leader for multiple teams, partnering 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 our complex, multi-cloud database ecosystem.
• Develop robust pipelines for massive parallel execution of real-time feature computations and aggregations.
• Play a pivotal role in shaping engineering culture, mentoring senior engineers, and driving high technical standards from conception to delivery.

Requirements

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

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience in fraud prevention, financial crime, or real-time risk platforms.

Compensation and Benefits

• Generous compensation in cash and equity (base salary $170,000 - $275,000).
• Early exercise for all options, including pre-vested.
• Flexible paid time off and Year-end break.
• Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents (US and Canada).
• 4% matching in 401k / RRSP.
• MacBook Pro delivered to your door.
• One-time stipend to set up a home office.
• Monthly meal stipend, monthly social meet-up stipend, annual health and wellness stipend, annual learning stipend.