Payments Senior Software Engineer

About the role:

At Forter, we’re combining our market-leading fraud detection capabilities with deep business insights and cutting-edge technology to build an innovative suite of payment products. This is an opportunity to join a pivotal new initiative and make a lasting impact on a foundational stage of our business.

We’re looking for an experienced software engineer who can do more than just write great code.
In this role, you’ll help establish the foundation of our engineering efforts, shaping both the technical direction and the culture of the team. You’ll mentor and guide less experienced team members, fostering collaboration and encouraging ownership, while driving forward key projects with an unwavering focus on quality.

You’ll be responsible for ensuring that our systems are not just functional, but highly scalable, reliable, and maintainable. You understand the importance of best practices, even under tight deadlines, and you’re deeply committed to building products that uphold availability and performance. This role is perfect for someone who thrives on solving complex, business-critical problems and is excited about shaping a product, culture, and team from the ground up.

Why should you join us? 

You’ll get to take part in building a new line of payments products that heavily impact and disrupt the payments space. You’ll get to work with smart, experienced engineers building multi-layered products while gaining deep understanding of the “behind-the-scenes” of the world’s web payments infrastructures.

What you'll be doing:

• Build our payments optimization offering, diving deep into the “behind the scenes” of the world's payments infrastructure.
• Bring your own unique experience - we are open to new concepts and ideas. You will help us redesign processes and architectural concepts and help bring the team and the systems to a new level.
• Develop a set of new, unique products as part of Payments initiative while working closely with teammates and multiple other stakeholders at Forter
• Work with a variety of programming languages and platforms
• Mentor and guide software engineers and help build a professional and effective team.

 Who are you?:    

• At least 5 years of diverse experience writing and maintaining complex software systems
• At least 1 year of Javascript development experience, preferably from the last year. Got Typescript experience? Even better.
• At least 5 years of back-end development experience.
• Familiarity with browser, networking and security concepts.
• Experience working in high-scale, highly available systems.
• Tech-Savvy Learner: Open to learning and working with new technologies (RUST, Go, etc…).
• Responsible and Independent: Self-reliant, taking full ownership of your work, including areas typically covered by QA and DevOps.
• Passionate about making systems and people better
• Product, Production and Growth mindsets
• Enthusiasm for providing technical solutions that bring immediate impact
• Strong communication, collaboration and problem-solving skills
• A can-do approach and a positive attitude!
• Professional-level spoken and written English proficiency

About us:

Digital commerce is built on trust. At every point along the eCommerce journey, businesses must make a critical decision: Can I trust this customer? Answering this simple question accurately and instantly is powerful—it can accelerate revenue growth and strengthen a company’s connection with its customers. How do we do it? Forter was founded on the insight that it's not about what is being purchased, nor where— but who is behind the interaction.

The Forter Decision Engine finds patterns across more than one billion identities in our dataset. We isolate fraudsters and protect customers—ensuring everyone gets the experience they deserve.  Given that trust is central to how we operate, Forter is very much driven by a defined set of values. We attract remarkable talent and have retention and engagement levels that are well above benchmarks. We’re meticulous about strengthening our culture as we grow and ensuring this is an environment where people can have outsized impact. 

Trust is backed by data –  Forter is a recipient of over 10 workplace and innovation awards, including: 

• Great Place to Work Certification (2021, 2022, 2023)
• Fortune’s Best Workplaces in NYC (2022)
• #3 on Fast Company’s list of “Most Innovative Finance Companies” (2022)
• Forbes Cloud 100 (2021, 2022)
• SAP Pinnacle Awards “New Partner Application Award” (2023) 
• Fintech Breakthrough Awards – Best Fraud Prevention Platform (2023)

Life as a Forterian:

We are a team of over 500 Forterians spread across 3 different continents. Since 2013, we've raised $525 million from investors such as Tiger Global, Bessemer, Sequoia Capital, March Capital and Salesforce Ventures. We're on a mission to bring trust to global digital commerce so that companies like Nordstrom, Priceline, Instacart and ASOS can block fraud, drive revenue and improve customer experience.

At Forter, we believe unique people create unique ideas, and valuable experience comes in many forms. So, even if your background doesn't match everything we have listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply and tell us why your skills and values could be an asset to us. By welcoming different perspectives, we grow together as humans and as a company.

Forter is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that will consider all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, genetics, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at interviewaccommodation@forter.com. This information will be treated as confidential and used only for the purpose of determining an appropriate accommodation for the interview process.

• Great Place to Work Certification (2021, 2022, 2023)
• Fortune’s Best Workplaces in NYC (2022, 2023 and 2024)
• Forbes Cloud 100 (2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024)
• #3 on Fast Company’s list of “Most Innovative Finance Companies” (2022)
• Anti-Fraud Solution of the Year at the Payments Awards (2024)
• SAP Pinnacle Awards “New Partner Application Award” (2023)
• Fintech Breakthrough Awards – Best Fraud Prevention Platform (2023)