Software Engineer - Product

Feedzai is the world’s first RiskOps platform for financial risk management, and the market leader in safeguarding global commerce with today’s most advanced cloud-based risk management platform, powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence. Feedzai is securing the transition to a cashless world while enabling digital trust in every transaction and payment type. The world’s largest banks, processors, and retailers trust Feedzai to protect trillions of dollars and manage risk while improving the customer experience for everyday users, without compromising privacy. Feedzai is a Series D company and has raised $282M to date. With a valuation of $2 billion, our technology protects 1 billion consumers and 90 billion transactions each year.

The Engineering (Tech) Team is responsible for all Feedzai product development. Together with Product Management and Data Science, we build the next generation of tools to catch fraud in real-time with a machine learning first approach. Formed by engineers and managed by engineers, at Feedzai, you will find one of the most talented teams out there, from junior to senior engineers.

We are fast-paced and provide a safe, open, and collaborative environment that encourages us to lean in, try new things and discover our potential with continuous learning for everyone.

While building the best value for our customers, you will work with a wide range of technical challenges. Such as building distributed systems that need to operate 24/7 and ultra-low latencies, solving UI/UX problems to help fraud analysts to fight fraud more efficiently. In addition, designing extensive databases from relational, NoSQL and graphs, validate and develop new data science techniques and algorithms.

You:

As a Software Engineer, you will be part of the team responsible for Feedzai’s Risk Engine, a core component used by all fraud prevention products across the platform. The Risk Engine is a core component used by all fraud prevention products at Feedzai, responsible for evaluating transactions and scoring risk in real time under strict performance, latency, and availability constraints.

Our philosophy across Engineering includes the following key ideas, which you will have a key role promoting in your team:

Teams operate with a “you build it, you run it” DevOps mindset, taking end-to-end ownership of development, deployment, and operations. You'll drive a culture focused on automation, observability, and operational excellence, enabling continuous delivery with confidence.

Architecture evolves towards a decoupled, microservice-based architecture, positioning it to scale efficiently in a multi-tenant, cloud-native environment. This effort is central to Feedzai’s long-term vision and product evolution

You are a passionate professional with the talent to push engineering excellence, challenge the status quo, and make things happen.

You will excel if you are curious, have a critical mindset, and can drive scalable technical solutions that mesh with our business goals.

Your Day to Day:

Be hands-on, executing the full software development life cycle

Write reusable and testable code using the best tools for the job and participate in code reviews

Contribute to best practices and guidelines for software development

Contribute to the cloud-native SaaS strategy of Feedzai

Engage in recruiting activities that allow Feedzai to draw top talent

Providing support and improvements to our production clients

Work iteratively within our agile teams to develop our products and underlying technical frameworks

Participate in an on-call rotation for our mission-critical platform, taking end-to-end ownership to ensure 24/7 reliability, with dedicated compensation.

You Have & You Know-how:

3+ years of experience building Java backend software or similar

BSc/MSc degree in Computer Science, or a similar technical degree (required)

Strong coding skills and Computer Science fundamentals

Experience in programming high-performance, concurrent server-side code

Experience designing and building modern web applications

Experience with modern distributed systems platforms and patterns such as Spark, RabbitMQ, Kafka or Cassandra

Contributions to OSS projects

Passionate desire to learn and grow

Able to bring ideas into the team and to work out solutions to tough problems autonomously

The Product Team builds our product to disrupt the financial crime industry from a data-led approach. We partner with our clients using a holistic lens and have result-driven solutions to manage financial risk with a cloud-first platform and a world-class UX interface. Being part of this team, you have a voice in planning, strategizing, and challenging the status quo. Your thoughts and ideas are valued. Our fast-paced and open environment encourages us to lean in, try new things, and discover our potential. We define and act on what could be in tomorrow's world, not on what is today. Join Us!