Staff Engineer - Money, Risk & Payment Ancillaries
Core
Architect and build bank-grade, resilient systems for real-time risk decisioning, fraud detection, scam prevention, money operations, reconciliations, and chargebacks in a global payments platform.
Role type
Staff Engineer (Technical Lead)
Builds
Low-latency risk/fraud engines, money movement systems, and dispute lifecycle platforms
Domain
Fintech / Global Payments / Risk & Compliance
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Go, Kotlin, distributed systems architecture, event-driven design, AWS, automated testing, technical leadership
Preferred skills
fraud/risk scoring models, double-entry ledgers, Kafka, payments industry experience, performance optimization
Technologies
Go, Kotlin, Java, gRPC, REST, Spring Boot, Apache Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog
Responsibilities
Own architecture across risk, fraud, scams, money ops, reconciliations, and chargebacks; design real-time risk/fraud systems; build money operations and reconciliation systems; design scam prevention and dispute platforms; champion 'You Build It, You Run It' culture; mentor engineers and partner cross-functionally
Seniority
Staff, hands-on technical leader
