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CurrentCurrentNew York, NY

Senior Software Engineer, Applied ML

Senior Software Engineer applying ML/AI techniques to fintech problems like fraud detection and user conversion. Requires 5+ years backend engineering (Java/JVM) and 2+ years deploying production ML models.

200k – 250k
On-site5+ YOEML Engineering

About the role

What You'll Work On

  • Predictive models for user conversion that directly reduce acquisition costs
  • Mining customer and transaction data to surface insights that shape product strategy
  • Applying LLMs creatively to interpret customer behavior and make sense of unstructured data
  • Real-time fraud detection, identity protection, and transaction decisioning

Responsibilities

  • Owning end-to-end delivery of ML-powered initiatives from problem discovery through system design to production launch
  • Building and evolving systems across the backend and ML stack, from microservices and data pipelines to feature engineering and model tooling
  • Evolving org-wide engineering standards for architecture, testing, and monitoring practices and documentation
  • Mentoring engineers through code and architecture reviews, raising the technical bar of the team
  • Partnering with data science, product engineering, and infrastructure teams to shape the data and ML strategy and drive adoption of ML solutions across products

Required Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience, with backend experience using a JVM language, preferably Java
  • 2+ years of building and deploying ML models in production
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
  • Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures and object-oriented design
  • Experience with cloud-hosted services, like AWS or GCP
  • Experience with relational and NoSQL databases
  • Experience working closely with data science and infrastructure teams
  • Strong problem-solving and communication skills

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

  • Experience with Scala or Python
  • Hands-on experience applying LLMs or other AI tooling to production use cases
  • Exposure to ML platforms such as SageMaker, Vertex AI, or Kubeflow

Skills

JavaScalaPythonGCPAWSKubernetesMongoDBBigQueryMachine LearningLLMs

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