Application Infrastructure Engineer

About Us

Riskified empowers businesses to unleash ecommerce growth by taking risk off the table. Many of the world’s biggest brands and publicly traded companies selling online rely on Riskified for guaranteed protection against chargebacks, to fight fraud and policy abuse at scale, and to improve customer retention. Developed and managed by the largest team of ecommerce risk analysts, data scientists and researchers, Riskified’s AI-powered fraud and risk intelligence platform analyzes the individual behind each interaction to provide real-time decisions and robust identity-based insights. Riskified is proud to work with incredible companies in virtually all industries including Acer, Gucci, Lorna Jane, GoPro, and many more.

We thrive in a collaborative work setting, alongside great people, to build and enhance products that matter. Abundant opportunities to create and contribute provide us with a sense of purpose that extends beyond ourselves, leaving a lasting impact. These sentiments capture why we choose Riskified every day. 

About the Role

As a Backend Developer in Riskified’s Applications group, you’ll join an innovative and fast-growing team operating in a true Agile environment. Leveraging cutting-edge technologies, you'll play a key role in building generic services and infrastructure libraries that support Riskified’s fraud management products, benefiting both our clients and internal teams. This position offers the opportunity to work on high-quality backend solutions, delivered as infrastructure libraries or services, which directly enhance product development velocity and quality across the organization

What You'll Be Doing

• Developing generic services and infrastructure libraries that expand Riskified’s ecosystem and contribute to the daily impact on the business.
• Taking full ownership of your work, from feature planning with Product and Design teams to technology selection, code and architecture design, development, and deployment in a CI/CD environment.
• Monitoring deployments post-launch to ensure reliability and performance.
• Collaborating on end-to-end projects, whether writing backend business logic or optimizing servers and infrastructure for scalability.
• Working with a modern tech stack, including Scala, Cats Effect, AWS, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Aerospike, Snowflake, Airflow, Grafana, ArgoCD, and more.

Qualifications

• B.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent
• Over 5 years of demonstrated hands-on experience in server-side coding
• 4+ years of experience with Scala or equivalent knowledge in Kotlin/Haskell/Rust
• Familiar with microservice architecture, k8s as well as data-related tools like Databricks, Spark and Kafka
• Proficient in database technologies (SQL/NoSQL)
• Familiarity with stream applications is advantageous
• An autodidactic approach to software development
• A team player with strong communication skills, but also capable of working independently

Join us in shaping the future of Riskified’s innovative FinTech solutions, contributing to our cutting-edge environment while honing your skills as a Backend Developer. If you’re ready to take on  impactful challenges and excel in a collaborative, forward-thinking team, we encourage you to apply.