<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About the role:</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Forter is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Core Engineering group. The group is responsible for the real-time, low-latency infrastructure that powers Forter’s fraud decisions and external APIs.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Our systems process billions of requests every day, ensuring high availability, security, and performance at global scale.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In this role, you’ll work on core backend components such as our decision engine, ingestion and enrichment pipelines, schema management systems, and self-serve API platform. The software you build will power critical business decisions and directly serve some of the world’s largest merchants.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This is a high-impact, high-ownership position for an engineer who thrives on solving complex distributed systems challenges, cares deeply about production-grade quality, and wants to shape the foundation of Forter’s decisioning platform.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What you'll be doing:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Design, build, and scale backend systems that power Forter’s real-time decisioning and APIs.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Own projects end-to-end - from design and implementation to production rollout and monitoring.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ensure systems are low-latency, fault-tolerant, and high-throughput across distributed environments.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Enhance observability, reliability, and developer experience through strong operational and tooling practices.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Collaborate with Product, analysts, data scientists, and infrastructure teams to drive innovation across Forter’s decision ecosystem.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Participate in technical discussions and customer interactions, providing expertise and clear communication when supporting enterprise integrations.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What you'll need:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">8+ years of experience building backend systems in large-scale production environments</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Strong programming skills in Python, Java, Kotlin, or Node.js</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hands-on experience with cloud-native technologies (AWS, Kubernetes, Docker)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Proven ability to design and maintain high-scale distributed systems</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Strong sense of ownership, autonomy, and accountability</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex systems clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences — including direct collaboration with customers worldwide</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It'd be cool if you also have: </span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience with API Gateway architectures, schema/versioning strategies, or platformization efforts</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Familiarity with real-time data processing frameworks (e.g., Flink, Storm) and resilience patterns</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Background working alongside data science or machine learning teams</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Contributions to developer platforms, infrastructure services, or internal tools improving engineering velocity</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>About Us:</strong></p> <p>Commerce is evolving faster than the systems built to support it. Agentic AI is redrawing how people buy. Customer expectations have a new ceiling. And bad actors are evolving alongside every advancement. </p> <p>Forter was built to meet this moment — and stay ahead of it.</p> <p>We are a human-first, AI-built company. Our technology analyzes patterns across a network of over 2 billion shoppers, delivering identity intelligence across the entire commerce journey — from sign-up to checkout to returns — that protects revenue and unlocks great customer experiences simultaneously. With Forter, businesses know who to trust, whether it’s humans or the agents shopping for them. The result: zero friction for the customers who matter. No revenue left behind.</p> <p>The world's most trusted brands — Nordstrom, Instacart, Priceline, Adobe, ASOS, and eBay among them — rely on Forter to get this right. Since 2013, we've raised $525M from investors including Tiger Global, Bessemer, Sequoia Capital, and Salesforce Ventures, and today we power commerce