About the role:
We are looking for a talented engineer to design, develop, and optimize high-performance, large-scale distributed systems that power data transport and processing across Forter’s ecosystem. As part of our Event Streaming team, you will play a key role in architecting a robust, real-time data platform that enables engineering and analytics teams to seamlessly move, process, and refine data. Your work will directly impact Forter’s ability to make data-driven decisions, enhance fraud prevention strategies, and scale our infrastructure, acting as a force multiplier for development teams across the company. This is a position for engineers who enjoy solving complex challenges and building systems that drive real business impact.
About the Team:
The Event Streaming team is the backbone of Forter’s data ecosystem, building and maintaining high-performance pipelines that transport and process data at scale. We continuously evolve our platform to ensure teams across the company can seamlessly move, transform, and unlock the full potential of their data. Our team of passionate, skilled engineers specializes in distributed systems and data infrastructure, tackling complex challenges to build scalable, reliable solutions. By optimizing workflows and enabling real-time insights, we empower engineering and analytics teams to deliver new features, drive innovation, and push the boundaries of what’s possible with data.
What you'll be doing:
- Design and implement high-performance, low-latency, large-scale data pipelines
- Maintain and optimize data processes and applications
- Work alongside diverse, high-performing, experienced engineers
- Research and define new data practices to support Forter’s growth
What you'll Need:
- 7+ years of proven experience with designing, implementing, and maintaining large-scale distributed system
- Experience implementing and maintaining data-intensive applications
- Experience with data transport technologies - SNS, SQS, RabbitMQ, or Kafka
- and stream processing frameworks - KafkaStreams, Flink
- Experience with AWS ecosystem - EC2, RDS, S3, MSK
- Experience working in Python or Java
- Experience working in containerized, orchestrated systems.
- Ability to work with other engineers to achieve shared goals and objectives
It Would be Cool if you Have:
- Experience with K8s and Terraform.
- Experience leading large-scope software projects from requirements gathering to delivery
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.
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.Other Jobs from Forter
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