Fraud Engineer
Own fraud monitoring, threat hunting, detection rules, scoring logic, and mitigation systems for Ether.fi’s financial products and card program. The role requires strong analytical pattern recognition, cross-functional ownership, and familiarity with payment or crypto fraud as a plus.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own real-time fraud monitoring, alerting, and automated mitigation systems.
- Investigate emerging threats, including cashback farming, card testing, merchant abuse, friendly fraud, money laundering, and malicious behavior within the Ether.fi ecosystem.
- Develop and tune fraud rules, behavioral signals, and scoring logic.
- Build internal tools, dashboards, and scripts to improve fraud operations.
- Define scalable fraud strategy and operational playbooks.
- Communicate actively with cross-functional teams and external business partners to mitigate fraud risks.
Requirements
- Strong interest in anomalous patterns, scam tactics, and identifying attacker behavior.
- Exceptional ability to find hidden signals in noisy transaction and behavioral data.
- High ownership and ability to drive results in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment.
- Programming experience is not required, but willingness to learn modern AI-assisted coding workflows is expected.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience at a fintech, neobank, or issuer processor.
- Exposure to Web3 or crypto-related fraud patterns.
- Exposure to consumer fraud patterns.
- Experience building or scaling early-stage fraud operations teams.
- Knowledge of card and payment fraud mechanics, including card testing, BIN attacks, friendly fraud, and merchant collusion.
Compensation and Benefits
- Competitive salary, performance-based incentives, and token allocation grant.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Global team with opportunities for travel across three offices.
- Four weeks of work-from-anywhere time.
- Company events and team-building off-sites.
Skills
Fraud Monitoring, Fraud Detection, Fraud Rules, Behavioral Signals, Risk Scoring, Transaction Data, Behavioral Data, Alerting Systems, Automated Mitigation, Fraud Operations, Card Testing, Bin Attacks, Payment Fraud, Web3, Cryptocurrency
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