Software engineer - aml

Software Engineer - AML

At Feedzai, we're building a world of safer money. A world where financial institutions move faster than criminals. Where the payments that fund real lives through salaries, savings, and businesses are protected in real time. We use trusted AI to detect and prevent financial crime, fraud, and money laundering at scale: the world's top banks, payment networks, and acquirers trust our technology to safeguard more than one billion consumers and $9 trillion in payment volume every year.

Feedzai is a Series D company and has raised $282M to date. With a valuation of $2 billion, our technology protects 1 billion consumers and 90 billion transactions each year.

The Engineering (Tech) Team is responsible for all Feedzai product development. Together with Product Management and Data Science, we build the next generation of tools to catch fraud in real-time with a machine learning first approach. Formed by engineers and managed by engineers, at Feedzai, you will find one of the most talented teams out there, from junior to senior engineers.

We are fast-paced and provide a safe, open, and collaborative environment that encourages us to lean in, try new things and discover our potential with continuous learning for everyone.

While building the best value for our customers, you will work with a wide range of technical challenges. Such as building distributed systems that need to operate 24/7 and ultra-low latencies, solving UI/UX problems to help fraud analysts to fight fraud more efficiently. In addition, designing extensive databases from relational, NoSQL and graphs, validate and develop new data science techniques and algorithms.

As a Software Engineer, you will be part of the team responsible for Feedzai’s Risk Engine, a core component used by all fraud prevention products across the platform. The Risk Engine is responsible for evaluating transactions and scoring risk in real time under strict performance, latency, and availability constraints.

Your Day to Day:

• Be hands-on, executing the full software development life cycle
• Write reusable and testable code using the best tools for the job and participate in code reviews
• Contribute to best practices and guidelines for software development
• Contribute to the cloud-native SaaS strategy of Feedzai
• Engage in recruiting activities that allow Feedzai to draw top talent
• Providing support and improvements to our production clients
• Work iteratively within our agile teams to develop our products and underlying technical frameworks
• Participate in an on-call rotation for our mission-critical platform, taking end-to-end ownership to ensure 24/7 reliability, with dedicated compensation.

You Have & You Know-how:

• 3+ years of experience building Java backend software or similar
• BSc/MSc degree in Computer Science, or a similar technical degree (required)
• Strong coding skills and Computer Science fundamentals
• Experience in programming high-performance, concurrent server-side code
• Experience designing and building modern web applications
• Experience with modern distributed systems platforms and patterns such as Spark, RabbitMQ, Kafka or Cassandra
• Contributions to OSS projects
• Passionate desire to learn and grow
• Able to bring ideas into the team and to work out solutions to tough problems autonomously

The Product Team builds our product to disrupt the financial crime industry from a data-led approach. We partner with our clients using a holistic lens and have result-driven solutions to manage financial risk with a cloud-first platform and a world-class UX interface. Being part of this team, you have a voice in planning, strategizing, and challenging the status quo. Your thoughts and ideas are valued. Our fast-paced and open environment encourages us to lean in, try new things, and discover our potential.

Join Us!

Your First 30-Days at Feedzai: You will be immersed in our brand with training, connections, and one-on-one time with your manager. You may shadow your colleagues virtually or onsite at an office depending on where you work as you are supported through your Feedzai journey.

Feedzai is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.