Backend Developer - Riskified

About Us

Riskified empowers businesses to unleash ecommerce growth by taking risk off the table. Many of the world’s biggest brands and publicly traded companies selling online rely on Riskified for guaranteed protection against chargebacks, to fight fraud and policy abuse at scale, and to improve customer retention. Developed and managed by the largest team of ecommerce risk analysts, data scientists and researchers, Riskified’s AI-powered fraud and risk intelligence platform analyzes the individual behind each interaction to provide real-time decisions and robust identity-based insights. Riskified is proud to work with incredible companies in virtually all industries including Wayfair, Acer, Gucci, Lorna Jane, GoPro, and many more.

We thrive in a collaborative work setting, alongside great people, to build and enhance products that matter. Abundant opportunities to create and contribute provide us with a sense of purpose that extends beyond ourselves, leaving a lasting impact. These sentiments capture why we choose Riskified every day. 

About the Role

The Core team is part of the Merchant Platform group, which provides platform capabilities for fraud prevention and abuse protection to thousands of eCommerce merchants. 

The Core Team consists of experienced backend engineers who are strong owners of Riskified’s flagship product and core microservices. Core team is responsible for all aspects of development: from planning with architects and product managers, researching the right technologies, implementing highly reliable and scalable systems, and making sure they run smoothly in production at all times. Core team works with vast amounts of data and processes billions of transactions.

Our Stack: Scala, TypeScript, Ruby, JVM, SQS, Kafka, Aerospike, CockroachDB, Redis, Spark, Airflow, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design and develop a highly reliable, available, and scalable architecture for our core services and flagship products
• Deploy your code to production daily (we have advanced CI/CD pipelines)
• Be a strong owner of production systems, keeping them running smoothly
• Work with large volumes of data both in real-time and batch jobs, using stream processing, ETLs, and data warehouse technologies
• Active part in planning the team roadmap and products
• Collaborate with other engineering teams and product managers teams to work on cross-department projects

Qualifications

• 4+ years of proven experience in hands-on server-side coding
• Passion for writing clean, high-quality code
• Great attitude - an independent self-learner and a strong team player
• Hands-on experience in Scala/Java - advantage 
• Experience in High-throughput and low-latency systems - advantage
• B.Sc. in Computer Science or military equivalent certifications - advantage

Life at Riskified

We are a fast-growing and dynamic tech company with 750+ team members globally. We value collaboration and innovative thinking. We’re looking for bright, driven, and passionate people to grow with us.

Our Tel-Aviv team is currently working in a hybrid of remote and in-office work. We have recently moved to our new space in Tel Aviv - check it out here! 

Some of our Tel Aviv Benefits & Perks:

• Equity for all employees, Keren Hishtalmut, pension
• Private medical insurance, extra time off for parents and caregivers
• Commuter and parking benefits
• Team events, fully-stocked kitchen,lunch stipend, happy hours, yoga, pilates, functional training, basketball, soccer
• Wide-ranging opportunities to volunteer and make an impact
• Commitment to your professional development with global onboarding, skills-based courses, full access to Udemy, lunch & learns
• Awesome Riskified gifts and swag! 

In the News

Geektime: Riskified Goes Public

Walla!: Happy Hour at the Riskified Offices

Geektime Insider: A look at Riskified Tel Aviv

Globes: Riskified to contribute the highest amount up to date to Tmura

Globes: Riskified is among Israel’s fastest growing companies 

TechCrunch: Riskified Prevents Fraud on Your Favorite E-commerce Site

Riskified is deeply committed to the principle of equal opportunity for all individuals. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.