Senior Engineering Manager, Customer Experience

About the role:

Forter is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team of 6 Engineers, dedicated to building products which augment our core offering - Fraud Prevention. This role is instrumental in shaping the way businesses interact with Forter’s fraud prevention capabilities.

Owning products around our core offering, means that you and your team will get to work on the most widely used areas in our app, having the most impact on our customers day-to-day.

As the leader of this team within the Customer Experience (CX) Engineering group, you will drive the development of products that empower our customers to combat fraud efficiently, gain valuable insights and manage their daily operational needs. Your team will focus on delivering intuitive, high-impact solutions that help businesses understand, manage, and act on fraud insights with confidence.

Leading this team is all about cross-org and cross-functional collaboration - you and your team will work closely together with Product, UX, Analytics, ML, and of course other engineering teams.

This is an opportunity to lead a team at the heart of Forter’s mission—protecting businesses and consumers from fraud while enabling frictionless commerce. If you’re passionate about building high-performing engineering teams and delivering impactful products, then let’s talk!

What you'll be doing:

• Lead and mentor a team of 6 talented software engineers, fostering a culture of delivery, collaboration, and excellence.
• Take our Fraud Prevention offering to a whole new level of UX, all while building analytical and operational flows that convey the Forter story.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, product designers, and executives to iteratively develop, improve, and release.
• Balance priorities between new feature development, stability, and system resilience.
• Act as an owner of mission-critical systems, leading technical vision and investment discussions in partnership with the product team.
• You’ll be technically engaged, with a willingness to dive into code reviews, architectural discussions, and occasional hands-on contributions when necessary to unblock the team or guide technical decisions

What you'll need:

• A relentless, get-things-done attitude individual. You love winning and exceeding goals. 
• A savvy engineering manager - you’ve been leading a team of 4+ engineers, in the last 4 years.
• You’re an effective leader - your people know what is expected of them, you’re there for your people and you help them grow to their full potential.
• A full-stack engineer at heart, with 6+ years of experience
• You’re highly experienced with: NodeJS, React, various data stores such as: ElasticSearch / mySQL / Snowflake / Redis, AWS or other major cloud vendors and Event-driven architectures
• You have a strong background of working closely with product managers and product designers.
• You’re excellent at keeping your eyes on the ball and managing priorities - distractions and curveballs will always be there, and you will need to maintain healthy priorities with your product managers.
• You deal well with fuzziness - by methodologically clearing it.
• You’re a team player who knows how to harness and coordinate with his peers to get things done.
• Excellent communication skills in English

Would be cool if you have some experience with

• Design Systems
• Typescript
• Python
• Prompt engineering
• AI & ML based systems
• Micro frontend

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, 2024)
• 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)

Life as a Forterian:

We are a team of over 600 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 Adobe, ASOS, eBay, Instacart, Priceline and Nordstrom 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.