Backend Engineer, Fraud Risk

Overview

On Site
$130,000 - $210,000
Full Time
10% Travel

Skills

Big Data technologies
Cassandra
DynamoDB
BigTable
Kafka
Pub/Sub
LLM-based systems
vector databases
fraud/risk detection infrastructure

Job Details

Role Summary
This role focuses on developing fraud/risk detection infrastructure and scaling distributed systems. The engineer will ship features with urgency, help build real-time processing systems, and expand Clients platform to new industries and enterprise customers.

Why Join?

  • YC-backed, Seed funded ($3.1M)
  • 15x revenue growth in the past year
  • Customers include Fortune 500 companies and top-tier unicorns
  • Equity: Very generous and meaningful equity

Core Responsibilities

  • Ship end-to-end features with ownership and urgency
  • Scale infrastructure to billions of daily events and millions of users
  • Develop distributed and real-time systems for fraud/risk use cases
  • Build fundamentals for product scalability across industries
  • Collaborate closely with engineering and product leaders

Must-Have Qualifications

  • Expertise in distributed systems and real-time processing
  • Proficiency with big data technologies (Cassandra, DynamoDB, BigTable, or other NoSQL)
  • Experience with streaming technologies (Kafka, Pub/Sub, etc.)
  • Familiarity with scaling vector databases and LLM-based systems
  • Ability to own and deliver product features end-to-end

Preferred Qualifications

  • Knowledge of rate-limiting infrastructure
  • Experience in Kubernetes or containerized environments
  • Experience in observability or data visualization products
  • Growth-stage startup experience
  • Strong credentials from top companies or top schools
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