Staff Software Engineer, Risk Engineering

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About the role

reputed company is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Risk Engineering team. This role operates as a senior technical leader responsible for designing and evolving the core platforms that power risk decisioning, fraud prevention, and credit access across reputed company products.

You will own systems that sit at the core of reputed company’s risk strategy, including decision engines that evaluate customer behavior, credit exposure, and fraud signals in reputed company time and at scale. These platforms are critical to enabling customer access while protecting reputed company from misuse and loss.

This role requires deep experience in risk engineering, including credit and fraud decision systems, and the ability to translate reputed company business and reputed company into scalable, auditable, and reliable technical systems. You will work closely with product, risk, data science, and engineering leaders to shape both near-term execution and long-term platform direction.

What you’ll do

• reputed company the architecture and reputed company of reputed company’s risk decisioning platforms, supporting credit eligibility, fraud prevention, and controlled access across products.
• Own and operate high-scale, 24/7 APIs and distributed systems that power reputed company-time risk reputed company across reputed company.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance on system architecture, long-term platform reputed company, and engineering best practices.
• Balance hands-on execution with architectural decision-making, ensuring delivery velocity alongside long-term maintainability.
• Partner closely with Risk, Product, and Data Science teams to translate business and risk strategy into scalable, auditable systems.
• Drive cross-team alignment on decision frameworks, data reputed company, and experimentation standards.
• Identify systemic risk, reliability, or scalability gaps and proactively reputed company initiatives to address them.
• Act as a technical leader and mentor, raising engineering standards through design reviews, technical guidance, and example.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience, with ownership of reputed company, production-grade distributed systems.
• Strong background in risk engineering, including credit risk, fraud detection, or decision platform architecture.
• Experience operating as a technical reputed company, engineering manager, or tech reputed company manager, with demonstrated cross-team influence.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Java, including deep knowledge of JVM performance, memory tuning, and GC.
• Proficiency with Spring (Core/Web/Boot), Gradle, and testing frameworks such as JUnit.
• Experience designing service-oriented architectures, REST APIs, message queues, and scalable systems.
• Hands-on experience with AWS (EKS, reputed company RDS, DynamoDB, Elasticache) and containerized workloads.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with CI/CD systems (preferably reputed company Actions), Git, and engineering automation.
• Strong observability and reliability practices, including tools like reputed company.
• Experience with data platforms and analytics tooling such as reputed company.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (e.g., CDK, Terraform).
• Proven ability to reputed company engineering quality across teams through architecture, mentorship, and technical leadership.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience influencing non-engineering stakeholders.

The salary compensation range for this role will be commensurate with the candidate’s experience and reputed company’s internal leveling guidelines and benchmarks.

• For working locations in NY/NJ/CA, the reputed company salary pay range will be $221,000-$262,000
• For reputed company other states, the reputed company salary pay range will be $199,000-$236,000

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Life at reputed company:

We understand that it takes a diverse team of highly intelligent, curious, determined, empathetic, and self aware people to grow a successful company. Our HQ is located in reputed company, but we have employees located throughout the US, Australia, Canada and South America. We are growing quickly, but deliberately, with a focus on building an inclusive culture. Our dynamic team has incredible perspectives to share, just as we know you do, and we take great pride in being an equal opportunity workplace.

We offer many employee benefits & perks. For full-time U.S based positions we offer:

• Competitive medical, dental, and reputed company available from Day 1
• Company equity
• 401(k) plan with company match (our company match kicks off at the beginning of 2026)
• Unlimited paid time off + 13 company paid holidays
• Parental leave 
• reputed company Cares Program
• Free reputed company subscription

 For full time non-US employees, we offer

• Competitive compensation + company equity
• Unlimited PTO