2 months ago
Tel Aviv-Yafo, IsraelSenior
Responsibilities
- Serve as the technical expert across core areas of the CXO platform and set standards for code quality, maintainability, and architecture.
- Drive technical decisions, lead design reviews, and contribute to major architectural decisions for complex systems.
- Own large cross-system initiatives, define success metrics, and measure post-delivery impact.
- Improve system cost, scalability, and operational stability.
- Engage with customers to understand needs, document pain points, and drive improvements across teams.
- Improve documentation, design and code review practices, onboarding, and other team processes.
- Identify customer-experience opportunities and contribute them to the product roadmap.
- Mentor engineers and collaborate with product managers and customer-facing stakeholders.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience as a software engineer with deep full-stack development expertise.
- Strong command of Node.js, TypeScript, React, and Next.js.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex multi-system initiatives, setting architectural standards, and influencing technical direction.
- Experience building customer-facing products and collaborating with product managers and customer-facing stakeholders.
- Hands-on production experience operating high-scale data systems involving billions of records.
- Experience with Redis, Kafka, SQS, Elasticsearch, MySQL, and Snowflake, including data-access layers, sharded and partitioned systems, schema and query optimization, and ingestion and transformation pipelines.
- Familiarity with cloud-native environments; AWS experience is a significant advantage.
- Experience building products or workflows powered by LLMs or Agentic AI.
- Experience enabling and mentoring engineers.
- Strong communication, collaboration, autonomy, and project execution skills.
- Experience using AI development tools such as Claude or GitHub Copilot.
- Preferred experience includes high-scale streaming, batch, or real-time enrichment pipelines; microservices or micro-frontend architectures; workshops and internal knowledge-sharing; and technical recruiting participation.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with employees near key hubs expected to work from the office at least three days per week.
- RSU offerings and learning and development programs focused on AI tools.
- Four-and-a-half-day workweek culture through Forter’s Appreciation Fridays and Sundays.
- Team outings and local cultural celebrations.
- Disability accommodations are available through Forter’s interview accommodation process.
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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.