Senior Software Engineer, Arkose Labs
$175-200k
+ Equity
Office located in San Mateo, CA
Fraud detection platform
Open for applications
Fraud detection platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$175-200k
+ Equity
Office located in San Mateo, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
Arkose's mission is to undermine the economic drivers behind fraud, compelling perpetrators to abandon their attacks.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years experience in a commercial environment using back-end programming languages like Golang & Python
- 3+ years of experience with multi cloud hosted microservices
- 3+ years of NoSQL/relational database experience - specific tech not important, but concepts are
- 2+ years of experience with distributed systems/computing (especially microservices)
- 1+ years of experience with ReactJS or any front end Java script library
- Knowledge of web/HTTP concepts and methodologies
- Deep understanding of computer architectures, data structures, and algorithms
- Have good team communication and collaboration skills
- Responsible, self-motivated, and have a growth mindset
Desirable
- Any experience with Data Analytics with DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) & Django Frameworks is a plus
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with Docker/containers
- Experience with agile development (Scrum/Kanban)
What the job involves
- Work on one of highest-traffic SaaS services running at a global scale, serving ~500 million requests per day and increasing
- Work on building highly-available, zero downtime, distributed software systems to help combat fraud
- Help build software that spans from the browser all the way down to analytics data pipelines - our engineers work to support a dedicated data science/blue watch team
- Work within an agile, cross-functional team (SWE, SRE, QE) to build out and own services and projects, from requirements + specs to release and maintenance
- Help with migrating from a monolithic system and AWS lambdas to a microservices-based architecture running on Kubernetes and also building brand new microservices from scratch
Our take
Founded in 2017, Arkose Labs is a fintech company providing a platform that helps detect and manage fraud and abuse. The Arkose Labs risk engine picks out behavioural patterns and anomalies to assess the ‘riskiness’ of users, and more friction is applied the more a user seems likely to attempt fraudulent activity.
Internet crimes in the US claim billions from US citizens every year, and there are no signs of this slowing down. Furthermore, as an increasing number of businesses access and process large amounts of personal data, the urgency for robust and effective fraud prevention tools is increasing in step. Arkose Labs are seeing good growth to match this upswing. They have strong backers in Microsoft and Paypal, and their customer base includes the likes of EA and Twilio.
Similar fraud prevention companies have been cropping up with competitively strong investment over recent years. So Arkose Labs’ focus on retail, gaming, and fintech sectors is a smart strategy to narrow the field. In 2024 it embarked on key leadership hires and continues to perform strongly.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
May 2021
$70m
SERIES C
Mar 2020
$22m
SERIES B
Total funding: $99.5m
Company benefits
- 401k
- $1000 stipend to set up a home office
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Hayward Park, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
Kevin Gosschalk
(CEO)After graduating from the Queensland University of Technology with a Bachelor in Interactive Entertainment, Kevin worked in biomedical research to use machine technology to detect diabetes and then founded SwipeAds, which prevented Ad fraud. They have been a council member of the Forbes Technology Council.
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