Senior Software Engineer, Engine Dynamics

About the role:

We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join the Engine Dynamics team and help tackle some truly foundational challenges in how Forter’s Decision Engine evolves, scales, and maintains its reliability and agility over time. The role is most suitable for backend engineers that love the business of software building, and are passionate about the complex and delicate process of making big systems simpler. It’s all about tackling the challenges of running truly big software in production, and is suitable for engineers that can operate well in high and low abstraction levels.

It’s important to note that this is not a platform role. The team is serving the decision engine only, and its problem solving toolset derives from business rationale and value. The team will be building systems that will function as part of the engine, and will not develop generic development infrastructure for other teams to use.

About the team:

At Forter, where ideas drive innovation, complexity is the main friction that slows ideas from becoming reality - and thus our biggest productivity challenge.

The Engine Dynamics team owns the insight-to-production experience for Forter’s Decision Engine. This means looking at the Forter engine development process as a product, and making strategic changes to how we develop features in it, either analytical or product-offering features. It means reducing complexity, improving confidence, reducing production faults and reducing the mental burden shared by all engine development teams. It requires understanding Forter’s core business well, and knowing what a good development experience looks like.

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What you'll be doing:

• Analyze, debug and remodel the structure of Forter’s decision engine in a way that will streamline work and reduce toil
• Remove bottlenecks so engineering and analytics teams can focus on building high-impact work for our decision engine and shipping it faster.
• Own key parts of our engine, including validation, fault detection, and developer tools
• Improve the journey from insight to production by treating our development process as a flagship product we genuinely care about.
• Make production more reliable so production issues stay rare even as the system grows and more contributors join.
  
  

What you'll need:

• 5+ years of experience building backend systems in large-scale production environments
• Strong Python / Java / Kotlin / Rust / Go skills
• Experience with cloud-native environments (AWS / GCP / Azure, K8s, Docker)
• Comfortable working on complex mission critical backends
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Strong communication skills
• Experience leading projects, requirements gathering and product management
  
  

It'd be cool if you also have:

• Experience building or maintaining rich CD pipelines
• Experience with monorepo build systems like Bazel, pants, Buck
  
  

About us:

Digital commerce is built on trust. At every point along the eCommerce journey, businesses must make a critical decision: Can I trust this customer? Answering this simple question accurately and instantly is powerful—it can accelerate revenue growth and strengthen a company’s connection with its customers. How do we do it? Forter was founded on the insight that it's not about what is being purchased, nor where— but who is behind the interaction.

The Forter Decision Engine finds patterns across more than one billion identities in our dataset. We isolate fraudsters and protect customers—ensuring everyone gets the experience they deserve. Given that trust is central to how we operate, Forter is very much driven by a defined set of values. We attract remarkable talent and have retention and engagement levels that are well above benchmarks. We’re meticulous about strengthening our culture as we grow and ensuring this is an environment where people can have outsized impact.

Trust is backed by data – Forter is a recipient of over 10 workplace and innovation awards, including:

• Great Place to Work Certification (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
• Fortune’s Best Workplaces in NYC (2022, 2023 and 2024)
• Forbes Cloud 100 (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025)
• #3 on Fast Company’s list of “Most Innovative Finance Companies” (2022)
• Anti-Fraud Solution of the Year at the Payments Awards (2024)
• SAP Pinnacle Awards “New Partner Application Award” (2023)
• Fintech Breakthrough Awards – Best Fraud Prevention Platform (2023)
  
  

Life as a Forterian:

We are a team of over 600 Forterians spread across 3 different continents. Since 2013, we've raised $525 million from investors such as Tiger Global, Bessemer, Sequoia Capital, March Capital and Salesforce Ventures. We're on a mission to bring trust to global digital commerce so that companies like Adobe, ASOS, eBay, Instacart, Priceline and Nordstrom can block fraud, drive revenue and improve customer experience.

At Forter, we believe unique people create unique ideas, and valuable experience comes in many forms. So, even if your background doesn't match everything we have listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply and tell us why your skills and values could be an asset to us. By welcoming different perspectives, we grow together as humans and as a company.

Forter is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that will consider all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, genetics, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at [email protected]. This information will be treated as confidential and used only for the purpose of determining an appropriate accommodation for the interview process.

Hybrid work:

At Forter, we embrace a hybrid work model that blends in-person connection with the flexibility of remote work. Team members based near our key hubs are expected to work from the office at least three days per week. We believe that regular face-to-face collaboration fuels professional development, strengthens our culture, and builds the relationships that help teams thrive.

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