Senior Mobile Developer (Research Team)

About the role:

We are seeking a talented and creative Senior iOS Developer to join our team in combating online fraud. In this role, you will play a key part in identifying and neutralizing sophisticated fraudsters in real-time, at a large scale, for some of the world's largest enterprises. This position requires responsibility, creative thinking, and a proactive attitude to solving problems with non-trivial constraints.

What you'll be doing:

• Conduct in-depth research into the internals of iOS, exploring lesser-known APIs, understanding upcoming features, and designing innovative solutions to integrate them into our products.
• Develop robust code that runs on iOS devices within our SDK (Objective-C/Swift), ensuring safety (zero crashes) and optimal performance (battery, network, etc.).
• Extract valuable data from devices while maintaining high standards of security, performance, and user privacy.
• Take ownership of the entire data flow process from concept to implementation, collaborating closely with analysts and engineers to ensure seamless integration.
• Deliver and publish SDKs to production, which will be utilized by thousands of merchants and interact with tens of millions of users daily

What you'll need:

• A passion for unraveling complex systems and a deep curiosity about iOS internals.
• 4+ years of experience in iOS development, with a strong focus on system-level programming, SDK development, or similar areas.
• Proven expertise in building modern mobile apps, SDKs, OS services, APIs, and understanding development cycles.
• Awareness and familiarity with mobile developer concerns when building apps at scale, including security, performance, privacy, and compatibility.
• Up-to-date knowledge of new iOS beta releases and upcoming changes/features.
• Ability to identify risks and roadblocks that could impact our code, SDK, or legal considerations in the future.
• Experience with reverse engineering tools and techniques is an advantage.
• A creative mindset and a passion for research, with the ability to think outside the box to develop innovative solutions.

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.