2 months ago
Tel Aviv-Yafo, IsraelSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and scale backend systems supporting Forter’s real-time decisioning and APIs.
- Own projects end to end from design and implementation through production rollout and monitoring.
- Build systems that are low-latency, fault-tolerant, and high-throughput across distributed environments.
- Improve observability, reliability, and developer experience through operational and tooling practices.
- Collaborate with Product, analysts, data scientists, infrastructure teams, and customers on the decisioning ecosystem and enterprise integrations.
- Participate in technical discussions and explain complex systems clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building backend systems in large-scale production environments.
- Strong programming skills in Python, Java, Kotlin, or Node.js.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and Docker.
- Proven ability to design and maintain high-scale distributed systems.
- Strong ownership, autonomy, accountability, and communication skills.
- Preferred: experience with API Gateway architectures, schema/versioning strategies, platformization, Flink, Storm, resilience patterns, data science or machine learning teams, developer platforms, infrastructure services, or internal engineering tools.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with team members near key hubs expected to work from the office at least three days per week.
- RSU offerings and learning and development programs centered around AI tools.
- 4.5-day work weeks through Forter’s Appreciation Fridays and Sundays.
- Team outings, local cultural celebrations, and a global workplace culture.
- Equal employment opportunity and disability accommodation support.
About Forter
Forter builds a SaaS trust platform for digital commerce that automates fraud prevention, identity verification, and payment/returns decisioning from sign-up to checkout. Retailers and marketplaces use it to approve good customers and block abuse. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, the privately held company serves brands such as Nordstrom, Instacart, Priceline, Adobe, ASOS, and eBay.