Job Specifications
About the role:
Forter is looking for a Senior Software Engineer II to develop and cultivate new products for fraud detection. More than in other groups, the engineering decisions made by Forter’s product group need to balance not only engineering factors, but also user experience, aesthetics, legal and financial considerations, and a general sense of what's most important.
The Platform Extensions team’s mission is to build seamless extensions to enable fast onboarding of merchants to Forter fraud solutions using popular eCommerce platforms. We strive to create “one-click” experiences and allow our merchants to onboard and start using Forter’s products almost immediately. Our platforms include but are not limited to Salesforce Commerce Cloud, and Shopify.
What you’ll be doing:
Design high-scale and low-latency components to support Forter’s growth
Develop robust extensions that will be used by Forter’s largest clients, allowing them to seamlessly start using new Forter products
Improve our current architecture and components to allow faster onboarding of merchants
Research significant eCommerce platforms in order to create and improve our merchant’s experience with Forter
Work closely with Product, Design, Customer-facing teams, and partner Engineering groups.
Turn ambiguous problems into clear execution plans and ensure alignment with customer and business goals.
Shape shared standards and platform best practices. Guide other teams on backend services, data integration patterns, portal development approaches, and AI-enabled workflows.
Mentor and elevate engineers across the CX group. Promote engineering excellence, share knowledge openly, and help teams adopt effective modern development practices.
Own delivery of high-impact initiatives. Contribute hands-on when needed, remove blockers, maintain execution momentum, and drive projects from concept to production.
What you’ll need:
6+ years of hands-on experience throughout the web development stack and/or backend stacks.
Experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, GraphQL, and other web technologies for building web apps and APIs.
Expertise in server-side development using NodeJS, ORMs, and relational databases.
Experience developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large-scale environment with multiple modern programming and database querying languages.
Proven communication skills.
Self-driven and solutions-oriented, able to collaborate cross-team in a globally distributed organization.
Would be cool if you have:
Experience with building low-latency web applications.
A deep understanding of the eCommerce Platforms domain.
Experience in building cartridges for platforms like Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Shopify, Magento or Commercetools.
Seen or designed high-scale, robust architectures that process multiple tenants.
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)
Fortune’s Best Workplaces in NYC (2022, 2023 and 2024)
Forbes Cloud 100 (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025)
#3 on Fast Company’s list of “Most Innovative Finance Companies” (2022)
Anti-Fraud Solution of the Year at the Payments Awards (2024)
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 enc
About the Company
Forter applies identity intelligence at every step of the digital commerce journey - filtering out fraud to help your business focus on growing customer lifetime value. Our integrated suite of solutions span fraud, identity, payments, chargebacks and abuse. We call this the Forter Trust Platform.
We help the world's biggest brands trust the identities they are interacting with so they can confidently offer every good customer a great experience, including faster, easier checkout, simpler returns and refunds and more valuabl...
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