Risk Software Engineer

2022-10-10 | po-021169

Company description

Leading Payments service with the mission to spread trust through society and to give people room to dream. Company offers instant, monthly-consolidated credit to consumers by removing hassles from payment and purchase experiences.

Responsibilities

The position is within the risk engineering team, which is tasked with designing, building, maintaining and operating the set of services that underwrites company's transactions. These services use machine learning models to predict credit risk and statistical models to detect, block and alert on fraudulent transactions in milliseconds.
Recently our scope of work expanded to include designing, building and maintaining new internal web application tools that empower internal teams to experiment with and implement better fraud detection/prevention methods, credit risk policies, and collections policies to further maximize our revenue.
We enjoy using Scala in a functional and pragmatic way to ease the burden of delivering quality backend software. We prefer simple solutions that allow us to iterate quickly and deploy them to production often. We value ownership and trust each other to deliver quality work in a timely manner.
Work in cross-functional teams that include product owners, data scientists and other business domain engineers to deliver new features.
Periodically evaluate if our services are meeting our security, maintainability, observability and reliability standards, capture any deficiencies and work with the rest of the team to address them.
Work directly with product owners and stakeholders to ensure that new requirements will not degrade our platform’s performance, reliability or security.
When assigned as a feature team lead, design and build consensus around new solutions architecture, build the technical implementation roadmap and work with the team to execute it.

Requirements

Knowledge of Functional Programming and/or Scala and its ecosystem
Understanding of software architecture and design with the ability to align the overall service architecture
Experience with building distributed systems, scalability and low latency software
Experience with maintaining and further developing existing code bases
Ability to work with non-experts, discuss their needs and help them formulate their requirements.
Ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-experts
Shows interest in the organization's engineering strategy, product development strategy and how that aligns to the overall business strategy
Ability to define task outlines and deliverables
Demonstrates a sense of urgency when required
Ability to manage some ambiguity and exercises good judgment when needed
Ability to give and receive constructive feedback tactfully upstream and downstream
Excellent communication skills, ability to interact effectively with multidisciplinary teams
Working on a payment platform or other fintech field
Big plus if you have experience with:
- Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Kafka and Postgres
- CircleCI, AWS, Fargate, Terraform, Datadog
- modern front end technologies
- Event Sourcing and CQRS