Experienced Software Engineer - Risk Engineering

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Hiring Remotely in United States
Remote
183K-297K Annually
5-7 Years Experience
Fintech • Software
The Role
The role involves developing risk defenses to protect against fraud and abuse across Plaid products. Responsibilities include leading projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and automating responses to ongoing fraud attacks.
Summary Generated by Built In

The Consumer Risk team is responsible for protecting Plaid and our ecosystem against fraud and abuse activities by building risk defense solutions and capabilities to detect and mitigate abuse across all Plaid products.


You will develop risk defenses to help Plaid detect and mitigate abusive activities across products. You’ll build tailored risk systems and work with product teams to implement defenses that benefit the broader ecosystem. You’ll partner with data scientists, machine learning engineers, product managers, and other cross-functional teams to derive risk insights, improve product features, and respond to fraud challenges across the ecosystem. You’ll influence product direction to enhance resilience against fraud and abuse, solving complex problems by navigating organizational and technical challenges with innovative solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for ensuring success in our mission to protect Plaid’s products, consumers, and the broader ecosystem against fraud and abuse. You will lead and directly contribute to the critical fraud domain, driving multi-quarter, cross-team, and cross-service technical projects.
  • Gain extensive collaboration opportunities with cross-functional leaders across the company—including Risk, Security, Legal, GTM, and Beacon—helping to influence product strategies and directions across all Plaid products.
  • Work to automate how operations teams review and respond to new or ongoing attacks.

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of experience with extensive experience in software engineering with a proven track record of shipping successful projects.
  • Experience in the Fraud & Risk Engineering domain with hands-on experience building end to end risk solutions. 
  • Excellent coding, testing and system design skills.
  • Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
  • Experience working with product, design, data science and ML.
  • [Nice to have] Experience in productionizing ML models.
  • [Nice to have] Experience in shipping 0 to 1 projects.
  • [Nice to have] Experience in data intensive systems, graph data models

Top Skills

Software Engineering
The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
1,012 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

Plaid is used by thousands of digital financial apps and services like Betterment, Expensify, Microsoft and Venmo, and by many of the largest banks to make it easy for consumers to connect their financial accounts with the apps and services they want to use. Plaid connects with over 11,000 financial institutions across the U.S, Canada and Europe.

At Plaid, we have diverse backgrounds and skills, but we're all passionate about building a more efficient and inclusive financial infrastructure—together.

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