Software Engineer

More than a decade ago our founders got started building a new category of products at PayPal and FedEx to protect online retailers from fraud. We found that existing solutions only provided retailers with a cryptic score and relied on human expertise alone to ultimately decide whether or not to accept a transaction. We soon realized online retailers were in need of a simple yes or no decision, but such a product did not exist, and Signifyd was born.

Our engineers build systems that catch bad guys. Using all available payment, user, and machine data, we have to separate legitimate credit card transactions from fraudulent in under 400ms. That means doing just-in-time mash-ups of internal data with external APIs and reducing it all into a single score with a few critical insights for end-users.

To solve this problem, we're looking for world-class engineers who are eager to learn, adopt, and contribute to a reactive style of programming. The position is for a backend engineer and will involve architecting and building scalable, event-driven fraud detection systems.

Required Skills:

• Excellent programming skills in Java as well as SQL
• Experience with scripting languages
• Analytical problem solving skills
• Communication Skills - We're a distributed team with offices in multiple cities. Frequent and clear written communication is a must.
• Desire to Learn - Our business is changing and growing fast, curiosity to learn new things is important. Flexibility is key.
• Self Motivation - You need to be a self-starter who loves taking initiative and seeing things through to completion.

Highly Desired Skills:

• Experience building large-scale high-performance systems
• Startup experience
• Payments or risk experience a plus
• Machine learning or related knowledge

Required Experience:

• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or other technical field