Staff Software Engineer, Forter
$214-290k
+ RSUs + Bonus
2+ days a week in office
Fraud prevention platform
Open for applications
Fraud prevention platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$214-290k
+ RSUs + Bonus
2+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To build trust in e-commerce by eliminating fraud for online merchants and marketplaces.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years building production systems and developer-facing platforms, with 2+ years at Staff-level (or equivalent) owning architecture and cross-functional initiatives
- A track record of shipping SDKs, APIs, or tooling that external engineers rely on and iterating via docs, samples, and community feedback
- Hands-on depth with Node.js/Python and AWS-based architectures
- Business-impact mindset: comfortable measuring success in time-to-integration and revenue acceleration
- Stellar communication and influence skills; you translate between technical, product, and commercial languages with ease
- Self-directed, entrepreneurial approach: you find problems, align stakeholders, and drive to results without formal process
Desirable
- Experience tackling schema-on-read / data-model variation challenges
- Background in partner, solutions, or developer advocacy engineering: creating code samples, or tooling at scale
- Experience working with eCommerce platforms and understanding merchant data flows
- Exposure to payments infrastructure, especially providers like Stripe, Adyen, Braintree, or Worldpay
What the job involves
- Forter is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical strategy and architecture of our merchant Onboarding Experience platform
- Your mission is to slash integration time from months to weeks (or less), cut internal hand-offs, and unlock faster time-to-revenue
- Operating as Forter’s most senior engineer in North America, you’ll bridge Go-to-Market teams with global R&D, hunting for friction, proposing bold initiatives, and driving them end to end
- Spot, scope, and lead high-impact onboarding initiatives: SDKs, schema-aware mapping automation, enhancements to our Integration Center, and self-serve validation pipelines
- Architect and evolve a multi-tenant onboarding platform that copes with Forter’s vertical-specific schemas while remaining simple for merchants’ developers
- Partner cross-functionally with Implementation Engineering, Customer Success, Support, Analytics, and Sales to translate real-world pain points into reusable platform capabilities—never one-off projects
- Mentor and multiply: guide North America-based engineers via design reviews, ADRs, and architecture sessions; represent the Onboarding Experience team in company-wide forums
- Drive the technical vision and long-term roadmap, ensuring the platform directly supports Forter’s strategic goals—accelerating revenue growth, reducing time-to-revenue, and simplifying revenue diversification
- Champion developer experience: clear docs, open-source examples, automated tests, friction-free releases, so our platform becomes a strategic differentiator
Our take
Forter provides new generation fraud prevention to meet the challenges faced by modern enterprise e-commerce. The system eliminates the need for rules, scores or manual reviews, making fraud prevention friction-free.
The result is fraud prevention that is invisible to buyers and empowers merchants with increased approvals, smoother checkout and the near elimination of false positives - meaning more sales and happier customers.
Behind the scenes, Forter’s machine learning technology combines advanced cyber intelligence with behavioral and identity analysis to create a multi-layered fraud detection mechanism.
The company had previously announced IPO plans, however, it has yet to move forward with this venture. Since its $300 M investment round in 2021, the company has made several acquisitions, strengthening its fraud prevention solution stack.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2021
$300m
SERIES F
Nov 2020
$125m
SERIES E
Total funding: $528m
Company benefits
- Vision & Dental Benefits
- Fitness Subsidies
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Midtown East, New York, NY
Leadership
Alon Shemesh
(Chief Analyst)Previously worked for 5 years at Paypal, holding various positions such as Risk Analytics Automation Manager and Manager of Decision Strategy
Liron Damri
(President)Previously worked for 5 years at Paypal, holding various positions such as Head of Americas Analytics, Business Analytics (ARS) and Strategy and Business Development, LATAM. He served as Forter's COO until 2017
Michael Reitblat
(CEO)Previously VP Product and Board Member at Pango Parking for 4 years and Military Intelligence Officer at Israeli Intelligence Corps - Cyber Command for 3 years
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