About the role:
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Israel development team. The Payments Engineering team owns and operates multiple Payment offerings in Forter. While partially greenfield, several offerings are already gaining traction with the biggest e-commerce brands in the world. The Payment products enable our customers to optimize their payment completion rates, potentially having a big impact on their bottom-line revenue. These products also require extremely high (>99.99%) availability and are sensitive to any kind of disruptions. Our goals are to continue with rapid development but ensure stability and resilience are top-notch.
What you'll be doing:

• You want to join the Payments domain early when Forter is just expanding it.
• Work closely with customers. Understand customer needs and help customers incorporate Forter's payment solutions.
• Brainstorm features with product managers and your peers and guide decisions based on your knowledge of the codebase and experience.
• You want to own systems that require >99.99% yearly availability.
• Provide software solutions to complicated challenges we face daily.
• Ensuring our services are top quality and a source of pride for Forter
• Take part in planning the roadmap for future technical investments in the domain.

Who are you?

• At least 5 years of hands-on backend engineering experience, preferably with 1-2 companies outside the army.
• Great communication skills.
• Enthusiasm for providing technical solutions that bring immediate impact
• Professional-level spoken and written English proficiency
• Able to creatively think about solutions and technical solutions
• Good grasp of cloud concepts in at least 1 cloud (AWS preferable)
• Team player - works well with other people in the team and brings positive energy

It would be cool if you also have:

• Experience with Postgres (using AWS RDS), and Redis (AWS Elasti Cache)
• Experience with Typescript, React, and Mobile
• Experience growing a secondary company business to big scale
• Experience in the Payments or Fintech domains

About us:
Digital commerce is built on trust. At every point along the e Commerce 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)
• Fortune's Best Workplaces in NYC (2022)
• #3 on Fast Company's list of "Most Innovative Finance Companies" (2022)
• Forbes Cloud 100 (2021, 2022)
• 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 500 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 Nordstrom, Priceline, Instacart and ASOS 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.