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Fraud Engineer (Scam Hunter)

Builds real-time fraud monitoring, alerting, and mitigation systems for crypto financial products. Hunts scams, tunes detection rules, and develops tools to combat threats like card testing and money laundering in a high-ownership role.

New York, NYNew YorkSecurity EngineeringHybrid

About the role

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

Skills

PythonJavaScriptSQLData AnalysisFraud DetectionReal-Time MonitoringAlerting SystemsDashboardsBehavioral AnalysisTransaction MonitoringCrypto FraudPayment FraudBin AttacksWeb3Defi

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