Software Engineer, Risk

Overview

Software Engineer on the Risk team, building backend systems that protect customers and the company from fraud and other risk events.

What you'll do

• Build resilient backend services for fraud detection, identity verification, and transaction monitoring.
• Develop, test, and maintain backend services and APIs for real-time risk and fraud prevention.
• Partner with product managers and engineers to design and deploy account and transaction protection systems.
• Integrate third-party risk and compliance platforms to ensure secure data flows.
• Contribute to architecture decisions balancing scale, security, and reliability.
• Write documentation to support collaboration, transparency, and operations.

What you'll need

• 3+ years of professional experience in backend engineering (ideally in fintech/payments or customer-facing systems).
• Proficiency building and maintaining APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure such as AWS and Kubernetes (or similar) plus database technologies.
• Experience with risk, fraud, or compliance systems is mentioned as a plus.
• Drive and proactivity (builder/executor) is stated as part of the role.

Details

• Location: United States (Remote).