Forter Senior Software Engineer Research EngineeringNew 

Israel, Tel Aviv District, Tel Aviv-Yafo 

183473756

What you'll be doing:

• Design, build, and maintain foundational infrastructure and key applications that allow people to leverage Forter’s proprietary and public data effectively
• Use modern technologies daily, such as Snowflake, Databricks, Apache Spark, Elasticsearch, AWS, Kafka, and more.
• Expand and optimize Forter’s data warehouse and lakehouse–weighing tradeoffs between performance, cost, and user experience–across continually larger and more complex datasets.
• Model data and define storage strategy, to ensure that data is intuitive for researchers to find, and easy and fast for them to access
• Enhance Forter analysts’ most-used web application, which gives them in-depth insight into every decision we make
• Collaborate directly with colleagues from various disciplines: Analysts, Data Scientists, and other Engineers (all of whom write production code!)
• Self-manage project planning, milestones, designs, and estimations
• Hold yourself and others to a high standard when working with production systems. We take pride in our tests, monitoring & alerting abilities just as we do with our systems.
• Debug complex problems across the whole stack.

What you'll need:

• 5+ years of proven experience with designing, implementing, and maintaining large-scale backend production systems
• Experience building and maintaining data-intensive applications
• Experience with data processing technologies, e.g. Spark, Flink, EMR, Iceberg
• Experience with data warehousing frameworks, e.g. Snowflake, Hive, Glue, Databricks Unity Catalog
• Experience working in Python
• Experience with AWS or other public clouds
• Professional proficiency in English

Would be cool if you have:

• Experience with a JVM-based language
• Experience with NoSQL databases, e.g. ElasticSearch, AeroSpike, Cassandra, MongoDB
• A strong command of SQL
• Experience building web applications

• Interesting, non-trivial problems you’ve dealt with
• A link to a blog post you wrote or an interesting talk you’ve given
• Open source projects you’ve created or contributed to
• Side projects that you couldn’t resist building

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)