Staff Engineer, Sardine

Fraud Prevention

$190-275k

Canada - $170K – $260K • Offers Equity

Kafka

Flink

Senior and Expert level

Remote from Canada, US

Fraud prevention & compliance infrastructure

Open for applications

Fraud prevention & compliance infrastructure

201-500 employees

FintechB2BComplianceMachine LearningSaaSAPICyber SecurityFraud

Open for applications

$190-275k

Canada - $170K – $260K • Offers Equity

Kafka

Flink

Senior and Expert level

Remote from Canada, US

201-500 employees

FintechB2BComplianceMachine LearningSaaSAPICyber SecurityFraud

Company mission

To remove the friction and risks associated with high velocity money movement, from banks and cards through to digital wallets and crypto.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

7+ years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record operating at a Staff, Principal, or Lead Architect level
Deep expertise in building highly available, distributed systems with strict ultra-low latency
Hands-on experience working with stream processing frameworks (e.g., Kafka, Flink, SQS, PubSub) in production environments
Advanced proficiency in polyglot persistence, with experience tuning data models across Document, Wide-Column, and Relational databases
A strong platform engineering mindset focused on reliability, observability, and developer velocity
Proficiency in communicating complex architectural concepts and driving cross-team consensus

What the job involves

You will serve as the technical steward and platform architect for both our Consumer Fraud and Business Fraud engineering teams
This position involves driving technical strategy, optimizing mission-critical infrastructure, mentoring engineers, and assuming broad ownership of a platform that processes massive volumes of data in real-time
Act as the overarching technical leader for multiple teams, partnering with stakeholders to unify platform strategy
Architect, design, and optimize ultra-low-latency backend services and a high-throughput rules engine
Design optimal data access patterns, partitioning strategies, and caching layers across our complex, multi-cloud database ecosystem
Develop robust pipelines for massive parallel execution of real-time feature computations and aggregations
Play a pivotal role in shaping engineering culture, mentoring senior engineers, and driving high technical standards from conception to delivery

Our take

Identity and payment fraud is one of the biggest dangers facing online businesses. Sardine is setting out to solve this problem by building the first zero-day fraud prevention technology.

Sardine's technology traces intrinsic behaviour patterns to identify so-called "bad actors" online, and detects fraudsters using machine-learned fraud scores and user behavior biometrics.

The company calls itself the world's first FaaS (Fraud Detection as a Service), and its solutions are already drawing business from next-gen crypto and financial service institutions. Onboarding these institutions and scaling its customer base at pace will ensure that Sardine maintains its frontrunner position.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

21% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.5)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Feb 2025

$70m

SERIES C

Sep 2022

$51.5m

SERIES B

Total funding: $145.6m

Company benefits

Generous equity compensation
Work from anywhere: Remote-first Culture
Unlimited paid time off and minimum 2 weeks/year of mandatory vacation
100% of health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and 50% for dependents
4% matching in 401k
Company-wide offsites, the last one was at Miami
MacBook Pro delivered to your door
One-time stipend to set up a home office — desk, monitors, etc
Monthly meal stipend
Annual fitness allowance
Unlimited access to an expert financial advisory

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Soups Ranjan

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Previously worked as Director of Data Science & Risk at Coinbase, and was Head of Crypto at Revolut.

Zahid Shaikh

(Co-Founder)

Previously worked as a Senior Product Manager at both PayPal and Uber, and was Senior Product Owner at Revolut.

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