Senior Software Engineer

The MissionYour mission as Senior Engineer is to drive the improvement of the platform, making the product extremely fast, scalable, reliable and easy to operate. The results will be directly reflected in the fraud prevention metrics, dependent business variables (revenue, margin) as well as valuation of the company and your personal stock option pool. Your code will be used to process data from more than 50M devices, creating decisions within milliseconds on top of thousands of events per second.You will collaborate with other engineers, founders, product managers, research team(building the ML/AI models), platform team and other fraud-fighters in the company.GeneralSeniority: 5+ years experience in a high-tech/startup universeEmployment Type: Employee or Contractor(just technicality, the spirit is that it’s “Engineer, Fraud-Figher & Shareholder“ anyway)Schedule: Full-timeWork Arrangement: Full remote possible, with availability for in-person gatherings, collaboration sessions as well as team-buildingsResponsibilitiesDesign, implement, optimize, monitorData retrieval and storageData processing pipeline (stream processing, batch processing)… any other relevant code to catch fraudstersCollaborate with product managers, research, and other engineers to understand requirements and translate them into well-defined technical specification.Ownership of ensure the scalability, reliability, and performance of the productMentor and guide other engineersEnsure compliance with relevant data protection regulations and standardsPreferred experienceExperienceExperience with event-driven architecture (asynchronous, message passing, …)Experience designing, building and operating large-scale production systems (Peta or at least TB scale)(data storage with fault-tolerance, sharding, auto-scaling)Experience with both high-level and low-level programming languagesExperience in Rust or comparable systems languages (C/C++, Go); willingness to become a Rust expert if not already.​Experience with building and operating distributed architecture (observability, ….)Foundational algorithms/papers used in this space (map reduce, consensus, fault tolerance, synchronization, leader election, gossip …)Message queues/buses (Kafka/NATS/….)Observability (logs, telemetry, tracing, …)Orchestration (kubernetes)AttitudePassion for building great software, that solves real problem of real peopleSkills (to be verified)Education/skills/understanding equivalent to Bachelor's degree in Computer Science(acquired by any means)Excellent communication and presentation skills (expressing clearly, maximizing information to data ratio)Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think criticallySystem of values compatible with ThreatMark (applies for all positions):Extreme Ownership: Taking initiative, driving results, and passionately owning project outcomesDeep Understanding: Preference of deeply understanding topics and systems from first-principles over opinions, guesses and superficialIntegrity: Consistently adhering to strong moral and ethical principles, acting with honesty, accountability and transparencyCollaboration: Building positive, efficient relationships, expressing in precise and efficient wayInnovation and Adaptability: Continuously seeking improvement, being open to new ideas, and making data-driven decisionsNice to Have:Experience in the US fintech environmentExperience with cloud platforms such as AWSExperience with programming in RustKnowledge of statistical analysis and MLExperience in the Cybersecurity domainPrevious experience in a startup environmentLeadership skills and passion to help other people perform at their best