Feedzai is the world’s first RiskOps platform for financial risk management, and the market leader in safeguarding global commerce with today’s most advanced cloud-based risk management platform, powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence. Feedzai is securing the transition to a cashless world while enabling digital trust in every transaction and payment type. The world’s largest banks, processors, and retailers trust Feedzai to protect trillions of dollars and manage risk while improving the customer experience for everyday users, without compromising privacy. Feedzai is a Series D company and has raised $282M to date. With a valuation of +$1.5B, the company's technology protects 900 million people in 190 countries.
The Engineering (Tech) Team is responsible for all Feedzai product development. Together with Product Management and Data Science, we build the next generation of tools to catch fraud in real-time with a machine learning first approach. Formed by engineers and managed by engineers, at Feedzai, you will find one of the most talented teams out there, from junior to senior engineers.
We are fast-paced and provide a safe, open, and collaborative environment that encourages us to lean in, try new things and discover our potential with continuous learning for everyone.
While building the best value for our customers, you will work with a wide range of technical challenges. Such as building distributed systems that need to operate 24/7 and ultra-low latencies, solving UI/UX problems to help fraud analysts to fight fraud more efficiently. In addition, designing extensive databases from relational, NoSQL and graphs, validate and develop new data science techniques and algorithms. Data and Data Engineering is at the heart of what we do.
You:
The Advanced Software Engineer role requires an engineer at heart who is able to lead and guide engineering teams to deliver Feedzai products. The role requires deep technical knowledge that enables you to challenge teams and bring out the best in them. You will be responsible for building top-notch engineering teams and driving their execution.
As an Advanced Engineer in the Digital Trust team, you will tech lead a team responsible for developing cutting-edge fraud detection and prevention capabilities, fighting systemic risks such as Account Take Over, Scams and many more. The Digital Trust team focuses on securing digital interactions by leveraging device intelligence, behavioral biometrics, cyber threat intelligence, and network analytics in order to ascertain legitimacy and security of any digital session, being it over web or mobile.
You will play a key role in ensuring the scalability, security, and performance of our Digital Trust solutions, which help financial institutions detect anomalies, assess risk, and protect users from digital fraud. This role requires strong technical leadership, mentoring and stellar engineering practice, and the ability to drive a team towards innovation and execution.
You should be an engineer at heart who enjoys solving complex technical challenges while mentoring and developing top talent. Your ability to align technical execution with business goals will be crucial in shaping the future of Digital Trust at Feedzai.
Our philosophy across Engineering includes the following key ideas, which you will have a key role promoting in your team:
- Teams operate with a “you build it, you run it” DevOps mindset, taking end-to-end ownership of development, deployment, and operations. You'll drive a culture focused on automation, observability, and operational excellence, enabling continuous delivery with confidence.
- Architecture evolves towards a decoupled, microservice-based architecture, positioning it to scale efficiently in a multi-tenant, cloud-native environment. This effort is central to Feedzai’s long-term vision and product evolution
Your mission is to deliver the technical leadership necessary to create and maintain a highly efficient, high quality and scalable Data Orchestration SaaS product (and the engineering organization behind it).
Your Day to Day:
- Technical Management
This is the key responsibility. Provide technical leadership and vision for the Digital Trust team product line, combining hands-on development with experimentation and prototyping. Ensure long-term architectural integrity while driving tactical improvements with PMs, EMs, and developers. Lead cross-cutting engineering initiatives, uphold Feedzai’s product quality standards, and act as mentor to other technical roles. - Cross-Functional Support
Partner with teams during planning (risks, designs, estimates) and align with Customer Success, Security, Sales, and Marketing to shape technical direction. Collaborate with peers and leadership to improve engineering skills and consistency across products, promoting sound methodologies and cohesive product delivery. - Hiring & Growth
Support the hiring process by shaping technical evaluation standards, and mentor engineers to become strong technical interviewers.
You Have & You Know-how:
- BSc/MSc degree in Computer Science, or a similar technical degree;
- 7+ years of experience in developing and delivering advanced applications.
- We value experience in the following topics:
- Experience with Python based Web Frameworks, preferably Django;
- Building services that have a high demand for performance and scalability (eg. supporting thousands of users, or requiring high throughput and low latency);
- Experience with databases, general understanding of ACID, consistency, sql/nosql, key-value stores, time series and columnar databases;
- Knowledge of Zookeeper, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes is a plus. We do not expect you to know everything. Instead, we focus on foundational knowledge: most systems are variants of one another after all;
- Suggested additional proficiency:
- Some experience programming wi:th Java: Spring, Quarkus (valued);
- Background in cloud environments: containers, docker, kubernetes, zookeeper, API gateways, load balancers (valued);
- Experience building REST APIs services (valued);
- Knowledge of HTTP 2 & websocket are a plus;
- Experience using CI/CD methodologies, using tools Git (Gitlab, Bitbucket, etc.), developing and maintaining pipelines, Makefiles, etc. (valued);
- Critical mindset and autonomy;
- Good technical English communication skills.
- Experience in designing and operating large production systems.
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- You will be responsible to provide support and improvements to our production clients, always with the goal of improving the quality and resilience of our product;
Valued Qualifications:
- Experience working on projects that move quickly and have ever-changing processes and structure
- Be solution-oriented, and when issues arise, be able to roll up your sleeves and tackle them with a ‘get it done’ attitude
- Team player with a clear focus on taking the performance of teams to the next level
- Enjoys the business side and shows their best self coming up with technical solutions to enable a product vision
- Has strong experience building/working on cloud-native SaaS systems
- Is a developer of engineers as much as an engineer, exercising mentorship and leadership-by-example to a community of engineers
The Product Team builds our product to disrupt the financial crime industry from a data-led approach. We partner with our clients using a holistic lens and have result-driven solutions to manage financial risk with a cloud-first platform and a world-class UX interface. Being part of this team, you have a voice in planning, strategizing, and challenging the status quo. Your thoughts and ideas are valued. Our fast-paced and open environment encourages us to lean in, try new things, and discover our potential. We define and act on what could be in tomorrow's world, not on what is today. Join Us!
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Your First 30-Days at Feedzai:
You will be immersed in our brand with training, connections, and one-on-one time with your manager. You may shadow your colleagues virtually or onsite at an office depending on where you work as you are supported through your Feedzai journey. In addition, you will have access to a ton of information to give you history, context, and all the knowledge you can handle about Feedzai and the team. Finally, you will start working on projects and collaborating on work currently being done. We can't wait to have you join the team!
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