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#### About the role: Forter is looking for a **Staff Software Engineer** to lead the technical strategy and architecture of our merchant Onboarding Experience platform. Your mission is to slash integration time from months to weeks (or less) cut internal hand-offs and unlock faster time-to-revenue. Operating as Forter’s most senior engineer in North America you’ll bridge Go-to-Market teams with global R&D hunting for friction proposing bold initiatives and driving them end to end. #### What you’ll be doing: - **Spot scope and lead** high-impact onboarding initiatives: SDKs schema-aware mapping automation enhancements to our Integration Center and self-serve validation pipelines. - **Architect and evolve** a multi-tenant onboarding platform that copes with Forter’s vertical-specific schemas while remaining simple for merchants’ developers. - **Partner cross-functionally** with Implementation Engineering Customer Success Support Analytics and Sales to translate real-world pain points into reusable platform capabilities—never one-off projects. - **Mentor and multiply**: guide North America-based engineers via design reviews ADRs and architecture sessions; represent the Onboarding Experience team in company-wide forums. - **Drive the technical vision** and long-term roadmap ensuring the platform directly supports Forter’s strategic goals—accelerating revenue growth reducing time-to-revenue and simplifying revenue diversification - **Champion developer experience:** clear docs open-source examples automated tests friction-free releases so our platform becomes a strategic differentiator. #### What you’ll need: - **8+ years** building production systems and developer-facing platforms with **2+ years at Staff-level**(or equivalent) owning architecture and cross-functional initiatives. - A track record of **shipping SDKs APIs or tooling** that external engineers rely on and iterating via docs samples and community feedback. - Hands-on depth with Node.js Python and AWS-based architectures. - **Business-impact mindset**: comfortable measuring success in time-to-integration and revenue acceleration. - **Stellar communication** **and influence skills**; you translate between technical product and commercial languages with ease. - **Self-directed entrepreneurial approach**: you find problems align stakeholders and drive to results without formal process. **Would be cool if you have:** - Experience tackling schema-on-read data-model variation challenges. - Background in partner solutions or developer advocacy engineering: creating code samples or tooling at scale - Experience working with eCommerce platforms and understanding merchant data flows - Exposure to payments infrastructure especially providers like Stripe Adyen Braintree or Worldpay **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  [2024](https: www.greatplacetowork.com certified-company 7039960)) - Fortune’s Best Workplaces in NYC (2022 2023 and [2024](https: www.greatplacetowork.com best-workplaces new-york 2024?category=small-and-medium)) - Forbes Cloud 100 (2021 2022 2023 and [2024](https: www.forbes.com lists cloud100 ?sh=5675f5797d9c)) - #3 on Fast Company’s list of “Most Innovative Finance Companies” ( [2022](https: www.fastcompany.com 90724406 most-innovative-companies-finance-2022)) - Anti-Fraud Solution of the Year at the Payments Awards ( [2024](https: www.payments-awards.com awards winners24.php)) - 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 600 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 Adobe ASOS eBay Instacart Priceline and Nordstrom 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](mailto: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. **Benefits:** - Competitive salary - RSUs - Matching 401K Plan - Comprehensive and generous health insurance including vision and dental coverage - Home office allowance - Generous PTO policy - Half day Fridays **Hybrid work:** At Forter we have embraced a hybrid work model that combines the benefits of in-office collaboration with the flexibility of remote work. As part of this exciting approach Team members are invited to work from the office at least 2 days per week. Within these two days we encourage employees to join each week for a department Team Day and for a Hub Day within each office. Your recruiter will share the specifics of these days. Our hope is that a balance of in-person collaboration will aid massively in employee professional growth development and relationship-building. **\*Forter does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to Forter (or any related) jobs alias or directly to any Forter employees. Forter will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.** _Salary Range: **$214 000 - $290 000 annually** \+ bonus + equity + benefits_ _The referenced salary range is based on the Company's good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location work experience market conditions and skill level._ _#LI-Hybrid_ **[Forter's Applicant Privacy Policy](https: www.forter.com job-applicant-privacy-policy )**... Click to read more.