Director of Engineering, SEON
Fraud prevention and AML compliance
Open for applications
Fraud prevention and AML compliance
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help online businesses reduce the cost, time, and challenges faced due to fraud.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience as an Engineering Leader responsible for delivering products, core services, or comprehensive features
- Experience managing mostly remote teams in multiple timezones
- Background of being a hands-on software engineer. Including, but not limited to development within a leading cloud platform (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure), development operations, and testing frameworks
- Comprehensive technical expertise in delivering a B2B SaaS product with a track record of managing a globally distributed, multi-disciplined software engineering team
- Strong understanding of how web services and SaaS applications work
- Exceptional service orientation and ability to lead change using positive and collaborative methods; removes barriers, acts with a sense of urgency, and leads by example
- Experience with growing, coaching, mentoring, and providing feedback to the engineers in the team including under challenging situations
- Demonstrated history of leadership in managing high-impact software engineering projects, preferably in a SaaS startup/scaleup environment
- Lead with empathy and trust, the ability to give constructive criticism
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across multiple levels, from detailed technical designs with engineering to broad product initiatives with key business stakeholders
- Critical thinking and problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Project management experience
- Business Professional English Required
- A degree in Computer Science, similar field, or equivalent experience working in the industry
- Experience in highly agile startup-like environments
Desirable
- Demonstrated experience building high performance systems with a major cloud provider (AWS preferred)
- Knowledge of modern DevOps technologies, such as Terraform, Kubernetes, ELK stack, Prometheus, etc
- Technical expertise with the building blocks of a modern data stack, such as Prefect, AWS Glue, Iceberg, MLflow, dbt, Snowflake, and others
- Experience with large-scale data migration projects, ensuring minimal disruption and data integrity
- Expertise in designing and implementing real-time data processing and streaming solutions
What the job involves
- As the Director of Engineering at SEON, you will be responsible for the ownership and optimization of our Software Engineering specializing in our modern technology stack
- Develop and execute our software engineering strategy to drive business objectives and empower engineering teams
- Establishing software engineering standards across the SEON platform for our engineering teams to ensure consistency and usability
- Build and develop a team of software engineer leaders, provide clear expectations (1:1s, constant feedback, individual career planning, goal setting, etc.)
- Lead the team’s recruitment efforts to ensure we can meet our growth objectives
- Collaborate with product teams in planning, dependency management, risk management
- Resolve knowledge and process gaps
- Help to implement and propose development process improvements to make the team’s work more efficient
- Work directly with Product Managers, Architects, and your peer Engineering Managers to explore and deliver the best value to our customers and provide visibility on the progress of the ongoing projects
- Help the team grow with mentoring on both technical and non-technical skills and performance management
- Be an excellent steward of our engineering culture and encourage knowledge sharing
- Operate as a thought partner and leader to Technology and GTM leadership, identifying risks and opportunities to shape our products
Our take
SEON is an online fraud prevention platform designed to assist businesses in combating fraud and minimizing risks related to online transactions. The platform stands out by offering a seamless integration process, allowing businesses to quickly implement its tools and solutions.
By leveraging a combination of technologies, data sources, and machine learning algorithms, SEON ensures real-time detection and prevention of fraudulent activities. Its effectiveness and reliability have earned the trust of prominent global brands such as Afterpay, Patreon, KLM, and Pokerstars.
With a strong focus on providing efficient and adaptable fraud prevention, SEON continues to innovate and evolve its offerings, helping businesses across various industries safeguard themselves and their customers from the ever-evolving threat of online fraud.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Sep 2025
$80m
SERIES C
Apr 2022
$94m
SERIES B
Total funding: $187.9m
Company benefits
- ESOP: Employee stock ownership plan.
- Vacation: National holidays, generous holiday allowance.
- Flexible hours: Flexible work schedule that allows teammates to alter their workday.
- Enhanced parental leave: Enhanced parental leave policies for all the parents on the team.
- Private health insurance: Private health insurance including coverage for spouse and dependents.
- Hybrid working environment: We encourage our colleagues to work from home a few days a week, and spend the rest of the time in the office collaborating with the SEON team.
- Employee assistance and mental health support: Access to an employee assistance and mental health support platform.
- Lunch and breakfast: Monthly company breakfast and weekly lunch allowance.
- Learning and development: Access to a variety of opportunities for learning and development (including external L&D).
- Weekly language courses: You can learn 40+ languages including Hungarian, English, Spanish, Portuguese & Bahasa.
- Book allowance: You can order business books to grow your knowledge and support your curiosity to learn more.
Company HQ
East Cesar Chavez, Austin, TX
Leadership
Tamas Kadar
(Co-Founder & CEO)Graduated from the Corvinus University of Budapest with a BSc in ICT Business Analyst. Is currently a Council Member and Contributor on the Forbes Technology Council.
Bence Jendruszak
(COO)Graduated from the EBS Business School with a degree in General Management. Previously worked as a Controlling Intern at HILTI and as a Junior Consultant at HyperTeam.
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