APIs Platform Tech Lead

About the role:

Forter is looking for a tech lead to join our Platform APIs team. In this role you are expected to lead the efforts to turn the APIs systems into a platform, enabling self-serve for other teams all while building mission-critical infrastructure that will accommodate Forter’s growth and future scale.

Every request and response Forter handles are processed by the APIs real time systems, therefore these systems must be highly available, compliant and secure. The team’s systems have to support Forter’s scale & growth, with focus on throughput & latency according to each product’s SLA.

You will be responsible for designing and building our next generation APIs real time ingestion systems and schema management solutions.

As tech lead for the team, you’ll be expected to push forward efforts and handle the friction that comes from working with multiple stakeholders and engineering teams. You’ll also focus on building long term technical vision for the systems, accommodating future products, changes and growth.

Why should you join us?

You’ll have the chance of designing and building our next generation infrastructure, introducing state of the art technology, rethinking many elements in our API design, structure and version management.

You’ll be working with talented and sharp people who care about their craft and product, building together a beautiful system.

You’ll learn about the industry’s best practices in web backend engineering, APIs management, API GW and understand how to use it in Forter in order to build a scalable, secure, uniform and highly available API management platform.

What you'll be doing:

• Manage the entire Software Development Life Cycle from planning and design to deployment and maintenance, ensuring high-quality and timely delivery of solutions.
• Hold yourself and others to a high standard, to ensure code quality, maintainability, and the reliability of Forter’s products.
• Be a bar raiser for the team and surrounding teams. Someone that pushes us forward to constant improvement.
• Provide platform services for other teams. We want them to move fast and be able to do so as autonomously as possible.
• Mentor fellow engineers with focus on helping and growing senior talent.
• Explore and make sure we followAPI management best practices, platform and tools.
• Act with high agency, come with problems and solutions and help us make our day-to-day better and more efficient.

Who are you?

• 8+ years of proven experience in designing and building large-scale production backend systems.
• Great team player, able to influence without pulling rank and comfortable with cross-team collaboration.
• Passionate about building highly available, scalable and secure systems with good engineering practices.
• Experienced in a cloud environment.
• Experienced with Docker or other container management platforms.
• Bonus points for strong knowledge in the following areas: Node JS, K8S, Prometheus, API Management systems, reverse proxies, security.

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)
• 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 [email protected]. This information will be treated as confidential and used only for the purpose of determining an appropriate accommodation for the interview process.