[Remote] Staff Engineer - Fraud Prevention
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sardine is the leading agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime. The Staff Engineer - Fraud Prevention will serve as the technical steward and platform architect for both Consumer Fraud and Business Fraud engineering teams, driving technical strategy and mentoring engineers.
Responsibilities
- Act as the overarching technical leader for multiple teams, partnering with stakeholders to unify platform strategy
- Architect, design, and optimize ultra-low-latency backend services and a high-throughput rules engine
- Design optimal data access patterns, partitioning strategies, and caching layers across our complex, multi-cloud database ecosystem
- Develop robust pipelines for massive parallel execution of real-time feature computations and aggregations
- Play a pivotal role in shaping engineering culture, mentoring senior engineers, and driving high technical standards from conception to delivery
Skills
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record operating at a Staff, Principal, or Lead Architect level
- Deep expertise in building highly available, distributed systems with strict ultra-low latency
- Hands-on experience working with stream processing frameworks (e.g., Kafka, Flink, SQS, PubSub) in production environments
- Advanced proficiency in polyglot persistence, with experience tuning data models across Document, Wide-Column, and Relational databases
- A strong platform engineering mindset focused on reliability, observability, and developer velocity
- Proficiency in communicating complex architectural concepts and driving cross-team consensus
Benefits
- Generous compensation in cash and equity
- Early exercise for all options, including pre-vested
- Work from anywhere: Remote-first Culture
- Flexible paid time off and Year-end break
- Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents - •US and Canada specific•
- 4% matching in 401k / RRSP - •US and Canada specific•
- MacBook Pro delivered to your door
- One-time stipend to set up a home office — desk, chair, screen, etc.
- Monthly meal stipend
- Monthly social meet-up stipend
- Annual health and wellness stipend
- Annual Learning stipend
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