Forter Staff Software Engineer 

Canada 

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Forter is looking for a
Staff Software Engineer

In this role, you’ll act as the technical focal point—setting the direction for the team and collaborating closely with Engineering, Product, and Go-To-Market stakeholders. You’ll own key architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and drive initiatives that significantly reduce the time and complexity of our onboarding process.

• Architect and evolve a scalable onboarding platform that empowers merchants to self-integrate with Forter’s services
• Drive the technical vision and long-term roadmap, ensuring the platform directly supports Forter’s strategic goals—accelerating revenue growth, reducing time-to-revenue, and simplifying revenue diversification
• Lead initiatives to make Forter’s integration experience a strategic differentiator—simple, intuitive, and delightful, on par with best-in-class platforms
• Lead the technical direction of the team, ensuring alignment with business goals and driving innovation in developer tooling, SDKs, data ingestion, and automation
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to engineers on the team, fostering growth and maintaining a high engineering bar
• Collaborate with Product, Go-To-Market and other internal stakeholders to understand merchant needs and translate them into technical initiatives
• Drive cross-team engineering initiatives and be a trusted partner to other teams in the org

• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, designing and building production systems at scale
• Proven experience operating as a senior or staff engineer in product-facing teams, driving architecture, technical direction, and cross-functional initiatives
• Proficiency in modern web technologies, including JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, and GraphQL, as well as backend technologies and data pipelines
• Proven expertise in designing and maintaining scalable systems and developer-facing tools or platforms
• Strong communication and leadership skills; comfortable working across engineering, product, and business stakeholders
• Self-motivated and solutions-oriented, with a passion for developer experience and technical excellence

Would be cool if you have:

• Experience building SDKs or integration frameworks
• A track record of reducing complexity through automation and tooling
• Background in high-scale, multi-tenant platform design
• Experience working with eCommerce platforms and understanding merchant data flows
• Exposure to payments infrastructure, especially providers like Stripe, Adyen, Braintree, or Worldpay
• Experience improving developer experience through documentation, sandbox environments, or test harnesses

Trust is backed by data – Forter is a recipient of over 10 workplace and innovation awards, including:

• Great Place to Work Certification (2021, 2022, 2023, )
• Fortune’s Best Workplaces in NYC (2022, 2023 and )
• Forbes Cloud 100 (2021, 2022, 2023 and )
• #3 on Fast Company’s list of “Most Innovative Finance Companies” ( )
• Anti-Fraud Solution of the Year at the Payments Awards ( )
• SAP Pinnacle Awards “New Partner Application Award” (2023)
• Fintech Breakthrough Awards – Best Fraud Prevention Platform (2023)

• Competitive salary
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• $500 CAD per month reimbursement for supplementary health plan of your choosing
• WiFi / Phone Stipend and Home Office Allowance
• Generous PTO policy
• Half day Fridays