Sr Director, Software Engineering - Trust & Safety
Core
Lead multiple technology and process implementations across departments to achieve firmwide technology goals, specifically driving high-throughput, low-latency production systems for fraud prevention.
Role type
Senior Director, Software Engineering (Trust & Safety)
Builds
High-throughput, low-latency production systems for fraud prevention and payments processing
Domain
Financial Services / Payments Technology / Fraud Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Java, Spring Boot, microservices, distributed systems design, cloud-native architectures, AWS/GCP/Azure, DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability tooling, cross-functional team leadership, strategic transactional focus, influencing complex matrixed organizations
Preferred skills
event-driven architectures (Kafka, Pulsar), data engineering (ETL/ELT, streaming data, data lakes), SRE principles (SLOs, error budgets), containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), API design (gRPC, REST, GraphQL), security and compliance in regulated environments, performance tuning and scalability optimization
Technologies
Java, Spring Boot, Spring, microservices, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Pulsar, gRPC, REST, GraphQL, CI/CD, DevOps, ETL, observability
Responsibilities
Lead multiple technology and process implementations across departments to achieve firmwide technology goals; Drive the development and delivery of high-throughput, low-latency production systems for fraud prevention; Oversee cross-functional engineering teams spanning application, data, and SRE disciplines; Guide the adoption of DevOps practices, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code across teams; Ensure the operational stability, observability, and reliability of distributed, cloud-native architectures; Act as the primary point of contact for senior leaders, stakeholders, and executives, building alignment across competing priorities
Seniority
Senior Director, strategic leadership & hands-on technical direction
