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.

Benefits

• Generous compensation in cash and equity
• Early exercise for all options, including pre-vested
• Work from anywhere: Remote-first Culture
• Flexible paid time off and Year-end break
• Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents - US and Canada specific
• 4% matching in 401k / RRSP - US and Canada specific
• MacBook Pro delivered to your door
• One-time stipend to set up a home office — desk, chair, screen, etc.
• Monthly meal stipend
• Monthly social meet-up stipend
• Annual health and wellness stipend
• Annual Learning stipend