Job description

About the role:

The Identity Group stands at the core of Forter’s competitive edge in the market. The group is in charge of creating the engine that identifies clients and builds Forter’s knowledge of them. Due to its criticality, Forter’s identity engine is a focal point from both a business and a technical perspective. That centrality means that we are always looking for new ways to make the engine faster, easier to modify, with higher throughput, and better accuracy.

We’re looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer to join the Identity Data team. The team is in charge of the critical data pipeline that processes and aggregates the huge quantity of events that, over time, build Forter’s identity data corpus.

Why should you join us?

The Identity Data team is the place for those who are passionate about data and scale.

We handle >2B person entities stored jointly in various database engines to support different fetching requirements, while processing >200k events per second

The team provides services to all Forter decisions, generating some of the most critical model inputs

We are one of the major contributors to Forter’s decision latency and cloud expense, and as such we are always improving our engines, reducing cost and latency, and have the organizational credit to make high-risk / high-reward investments in cutting edge technologies

If you are up for the challenge of being in one of the most critical teams in the organization, which holds part of the ‘secret sauce’ of Forter’s success, we are the place for you!

What you’ll be doing:

Have a key part in improving the systems helping Forter prevent fraud for our merchants by identifying millions of decisions a day
Design, build, and maintain Near-real-time data pipelines
Take initiative: A large portion of the work are initiatives are pushed by the engineers
Work in a rich ecosystem of storage and data technologies, to name a few: Elasticsearch, Aerospike, Spark, Redis, RocksDB, S3, Snowflake and many more
Provide software solutions to complicated challenges we face on a daily basis

What you’ll need:

6 + years of proven experience in designing and building large-scale production systems.
Strong Java and/or Python skills.
Experience (or good familiarity) with streaming technologies such as Storm, Flink, Spark Streaming.
Familiarity with concepts such as Queue/DLQ, Topics and general streaming practices (backpressure, circuit-breaker, etc).
Experience with various databases or data stores such as Elasticsearch, Redis, MySQL, Couchbase, MongoDB, Cassandra, Aerospike, etc.
Experience with AWS or other public clouds.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

It’d be cool if you also: [not a must]

Profiled and optimized code to the millisecond level.
Experience with event streaming frameworks.
Strong written-English skills

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)
Fortune’s Best Workplaces in NYC (2022)
#3 on Fast Company’s list of “Most Innovative Finance Companies” (2022)
Forbes Cloud 100 (2021, 2022)
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 500 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 Nordstrom, Priceline, Instacart and ASOS 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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Senior Software Engineer II