About the role:
As an engineer joining us, you'll play a central role in making the above happen, taking a crucial part in Forter’s revenue stream. Some of the challenges you’ll face:
- Design and implement scalable, performance-oriented systems, responsible for digesting hundreds of millions of transactions per month
- Enable the extension of Forter’s offering, by bringing the billing process perspective to the decision-making process
- Take part in a cross-team effort to define a common language between the various products and the financial systems
- Constantly aim towards improving the systems to meet the highest quality, observability, and monitoring standards
What you'll be doing:
- Lead hands-on significant development efforts while collaborating with teammates and individual contributors at Forter
- Work with on data oriented tasks for the integration of task orchestration mechanisms for enhancing the system's management and processing efficiency
- Initiate and own complex projects, work with PMs to define features and scope, while guiding through technical decisions and tradeoffs
- Hold yourself to high standards, as we value accountability and testing just as we value our production systems. We achieve this by employing advanced monitoring and testing solutions.
- Collaborate in an environment involving various stakeholders within the company by planning, brainstorming, and sharing feedback.
What you'll need:
- 7+ years of experience writing and maintaining complex backend systems using a modern programming language
- 3+ years of thorough Python experience
- Proficiency in various storage solutions such as MySQL, Snowflake, and Redis
- Proven track record of leading technical projects through all stages of the Software development life cycle - from requirements to deployment
- Experience with AWS or other public cloud services
- Enthusiasm for providing technical solutions that bring an immediate business impact
- Strong design, development, delivery, and quality assurance skills.
- Excellent communication skills, able to convey technical concepts to diverse audiences effectively.
It would be cool if you have:
- Familiarity with NoSQL data stores such as Elasticsearch
- Previous background in the fintech industry
- Experience building and maintaining data pipelines using industry-standard frameworks like Airflow, Kafka, Delta Lake, etc
- Experience with Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms
- Familiarity with observability systems such as Honeycomb, Datadog, Grafana, etc
- Passion for coding and mentoring others
- Previous experience working on B2B products
- Experience maintaining billing / ERP systems
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)
- in NYC (2022)
- #3 on of “Most Innovative Finance Companies” (2022)
- Forbes Cloud 100 (2021, )
- SAP Pinnacle Awards “ ” (2023)
- Fintech Breakthrough Awards – Best Fraud Prevention Platform (2023)