Staff Software EngineerUnited States - New York (New York)

Staff Software Engineer

Forter is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical strategy and architecture of our merchant Onboarding Experience platform. Your mission is to slash integration time from months to weeks (or less), cut internal hand-offs, and unlock faster time-to-revenue. Operating as Forter's most senior engineer in North America, you'll bridge Go-to-Market teams with global R&D, hunting for friction, proposing bold initiatives, and driving them end to end.

What you'll be doing :

• Spot, scope, and lead high-impact onboarding initiatives : SDKs, schema-aware mapping automation, enhancements to our Integration Center, and self-serve validation pipelines.
• Architect and evolve a multi-tenant onboarding platform that copes with Forter's vertical-specific schemas while remaining simple for merchants' developers.
• Partner cross-functionally with Implementation Engineering, Customer Success, Support, Analytics, and Sales to translate real-world pain points into reusable platform capabilitiesnever one-off projects.
• Mentor and multiply : guide North America-based engineers via design reviews, ADRs, and architecture sessions; represent the Onboarding Experience team in company-wide forums.
• Drive the technical vision and long-term roadmap, ensuring the platform directly supports Forter's strategic goalsaccelerating revenue growth, reducing time-to-revenue, and simplifying revenue diversification
• Champion developer experience : clear docs, open-source examples, automated tests, friction-free releases, so our platform becomes a strategic differentiator.

What you'll need :

Would be cool if you have :

About us :

Digital commerce is built on trust. At every point along the eCommerce journey, businesses must make a critical decision : Can I trust this customer? Answering this simple question accurately and instantly is powerfulit can accelerate revenue growth and strengthen a company's connection with its customers. How do we do it? Forter was founded on the insight that it's not about what is being purchased, nor wherebut who is behind the interaction.

The Forter Decision Engine finds patterns across more than one billion identities in our dataset. We isolate fraudsters and protect customersensuring everyone gets the experience they deserve. Given that trust is central to how we operate, Forter is very much driven by a defined set of values. We attract remarkable talent and have retention and engagement levels that are well above benchmarks. We're meticulous about strengthening our culture as we grow and ensuring this is an environment where people can have outsized impact.

Trust is backed by data Forter is a recipient of over 10 workplace and innovation awards, including :

Life as a Forterian :

We are a team of over 600 Forterians spread across 3 different continents. Since 2013, we've raised $525 million from investors such as Tiger Global, Bessemer, Sequoia Capital, March Capital and Salesforce Ventures. We're on a mission to bring trust to global digital commerce so that companies like Adobe, ASOS, eBay, Instacart, Priceline and Nordstrom can block fraud, drive revenue and improve customer experience.

At Forter, we believe unique people create unique ideas, and valuable experience comes in many forms. So, even if your background doesn't match everything we have listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply and tell us why your skills and values could be an asset to us. By welcoming different perspectives, we grow together as humans and as a company.

Forter is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that will consider all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, genetics, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at interviewaccommodation@forter.com. This information will be treated as confidential and used only for the purpose of determining an appropriate accommodation for the interview process.

Benefits :

Hybrid work :

At Forter, we have embraced a hybrid work model that combines the benefits of in-office collaboration with the flexibility of remote work. As part of this exciting approach, team members are invited to work from the office at least 2 days per week. Within these two days, we encourage employees to join each week, for a department team day and for a hub day within each office. Your recruiter will share the specifics of these days. Our hope is that a balance of in-person collaboration will aid massively in employee professional growth, development and relationship-building.

Salary Range : $214,000 - $290,000 annually + bonus + equity + benefits. The referenced salary range is based on the Company's good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, and skill level.

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