Staff Software Engineer, Forter
+ RSUs
Fraud prevention platform
Open for applications
Fraud prevention platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
+ RSUs
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To build trust in e-commerce by eliminating fraud for online merchants and marketplaces.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, designing and building production systems at scale
- Proven experience operating as a senior or staff engineer in product-facing teams, driving architecture, technical direction, and cross-functional initiatives
- Proficiency in modern web technologies, including JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, and GraphQL, as well as backend technologies and data pipelines
- Proven expertise in designing and maintaining scalable systems and developer-facing tools or platforms
- Strong communication and leadership skills; comfortable working across engineering, product, and business stakeholders
- Self-motivated and solutions-oriented, with a passion for developer experience and technical excellence
Desirable
- Experience building SDKs or integration frameworks
- A track record of reducing complexity through automation and tooling
- Background in high-scale, multi-tenant platform design
- Experience working with eCommerce platforms and understanding merchant data flows
- Exposure to payments infrastructure, especially providers like Stripe, Adyen, Braintree, or Worldpay
- Experience improving developer experience through documentation, sandbox environments, or test harnesses
What the job involves
- Forter is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical strategy and architecture of a unified onboarding platform that connects merchants to Forter’s products
- In this role, you’ll act as the technical focal point—setting the direction for the team and collaborating closely with Engineering, Product, and Go-To-Market stakeholders
- You’ll own key architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and drive initiatives that significantly reduce the time and complexity of our onboarding process
- Architect and evolve a scalable onboarding platform that empowers merchants to self-integrate with Forter’s services
- 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
- Lead initiatives to make Forter’s integration experience a strategic differentiator—simple, intuitive, and delightful, on par with best-in-class platforms
- Lead the technical direction of the team, ensuring alignment with business goals and driving innovation in developer tooling, SDKs, data ingestion, and automation
- Provide technical mentorship and guidance to engineers on the team, fostering growth and maintaining a high engineering bar
- Collaborate with Product, Go-To-Market and other internal stakeholders to understand merchant needs and translate them into technical initiatives
- Drive cross-team engineering initiatives and be a trusted partner to other teams in the org
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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