Engineering Team Lead, Research Engineering

About the role:

Forter is looking for an Engineering Team lead to lead our Research Engineering team.

At Forter analysts are core to our business, and are half of total R&D.

You will design and build the self-service analytics, this is the daily driver for Forter analysts and serves as a force multiplier to employees across the company.

Analytics are central to how Forter operates, across the entire organization.

They power our decisions which are our business, and enable us to move fast and release features at a rapid pace, and provide the backdrop for much of the innovation currently occurring in the company.

Why should you join us?

This role provides a rare opportunity to lead a team of talented engineers while driving a substantial part of the team roadmap.

You'll be building your team and identifying the missing pieces of your puzzle, you'll be working with a variety of internal and external stakeholders of different backgrounds and agendas, you'll lead critical long-term initiatives directly impacting top company goals, and you'll define and own the domain's strategy and vision for years to come.

What you will be doing:

• Build and lead a team of 4 experienced Backend Engineers
• Initiate and own complex development projects, work with stakeholders to define features, and scope, and guide decisions and tradeoffs
• Collaborate with staff & principal engineers and analysts from across the organization.
• Managing relationship with our various vendors (DBX, SF and more)
  
  

Who are you?

• Managed 3+ engineers for 3+ years ,with 5+ years of experience working with large scale research systems (Snowflake/DBX)
• Passion and experience overseeing a product’s lifecycle - from vision through requirements gathering to CI/CD cycles
• Have a mentorship mindset and the passion to guide engineers towards achieving their career growth goals
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills - can talk and explain at the right level of abstraction to different audiences, and can build cross-org relationships at multiple levels
• Have a continuous improvement mindset and can-do approach
  
  

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 and 2024)
• #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.

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