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Staff Software Engineer - Trust & Safety

207k – 243kLos Angeles, CARemote8+ YOE
Summary

Staff-level engineer to found and lead a new Trust & Safety engineering team, architecting systems to detect fraud, billing anomalies, and credential abuse for a mental healthcare platform.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Serve as chief architect of Trust & Safety Engineering team
  • Drive product-based implementations to fulfill, audit, measure, and enforce Trust & Safety policies
  • Build robust custom tools and leverage industry solutions to investigate and mitigate threats like fraud, billing anomalies, and credential abuse
  • Lead product architecture and operational, process-based solutions
  • Mentor senior engineers and establish design patterns
  • Drive all phases of the development lifecycle: planning, specing, execution, measuring success, and post-launch maintenance

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience
  • 1+ years working on Trust & Safety systems
  • 1+ years helping to form a new team from scratch
  • Experience working on cross-functional teams bridging technical and non-technical groups
  • Fullstack experience building modern database-backed (SQL/NoSQL) web applications
  • Experience with microservice development
  • Experience mentoring others, reviewing architectures, and establishing design patterns
  • Experience driving all phases of the development lifecycle
  • Experience working on highly complex projects with focus on sustainable results

Nice-to-Haves

  • Start-up experience
  • Experience developing SaaS applications using AWS
  • Previous experience in products with high reliability/accuracy requirements (finance, mission critical systems)
  • Experience with on-call, ability to deep dive complex issues and drive to resolution independently
  • Experience with Node.js, TypeScript, Kafka
Skills
Fullstack DevelopmentSQLNoSQLMicroservicesNode.jsTypeScriptKafkaAWSSystem ArchitectureTeam Mentorship
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