Job Application for Senior Software Engineer II, Event Streaming at Forter

About the role:

We’re looking for a skilled backend engineer with deep expertise in event streaming to help shape the core of Forter’s real-time data platform. As a key member of our Event Streaming team, you’ll architect and build high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems that move and transform data at scale. This platform is central to Forter’s fraud prevention technology, powering critical decisions and unlocking insights across the organization. You’ll tackle complex engineering challenges, work with cutting-edge streaming technologies, and enable teams company-wide to build faster and smarter. If you’re passionate about real-time systems and want your work to have a multiplier effect across products and teams, this role is for you.

About the Team:

The Event Streaming team builds and operates the real-time backbone of Forter’s data platform. We own both the infrastructure that enables high-throughput, low-latency data transport and the services that make that data actionable. Our work supports critical use cases across fraud prevention, analytics, and product development. The team combines deep expertise in distributed systems with a focus on building scalable, reliable solutions that serve the entire engineering organization. We take pride in delivering a platform that empowers teams to develop faster, make data-driven decisions, and unlock new product capabilities through real-time insights.

What you'll be doing:

Design and implement high performance, low latency, and large scale data pipelines
Maintain and optimize event processing applications
Work alongside diverse, high performing, experienced engineers
Research and define new data practices to support Forter’s ever increasing scale

What you'll Need:

7+ years of proven experience with designing, implementing and maintaining large scale distributed system in data intensive environments
Extensive experience with data transport technologies - Kafka (must have) and others such as SNS / SQS / RabbitMQ
Extensive experience with data transport technologies, with a strong emphasis on Kafka (required) and familiarity with other technologies such as SNS, SQS, or RabbitMQ.
Experience with one or more stream processing frameworks - KafkaStreams, Flink or Spark Streaming
Experience with various database technologies, such as MySQL, S3, Aerospike
Experience working in Python, Java, or Scala
Experience working in containerized, orchestrated systems.
Ability to work with other engineers to achieve shared goals and objectives

It Would be Cool if you Have:

Experience with K8s and Terraform.
Experience leading large scope software projects from requirements gathering to delivery

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 powerful—it 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 where— but 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 customers—ensuring 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:

Great Place to Work Certification (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
Fortune’s Best Workplaces in NYC (2022, 2023 and 2024)
Forbes Cloud 100 (2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024)
#3 on Fast Company’s list of “Most Innovative Finance Companies” (2022)
Anti-Fraud Solution of the Year at the Payments Awards (2024)
SAP Pinnacle Awards “New Partner Application Award” (2023)
Fintech Breakthrough Awards – Best Fraud Prevention Platform (2023)

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.

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