Scala Developer - App Infra Team

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 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

As a Backend developer at Riskified’s Applications group, you’ll become a valuable member of an innovative and fast-growing department, working in a truly Agile environment utilizing cutting-edge technologies.

You will build generic services and infrastructure libs supporting our fraud management products that help our clients as well as our internal departments to expand Riskified’s ecosystem and make an impact on our business daily.

Our team develops high-quality backend solutions, delivered as generic infrastructure libs or services. These in turn translate into increasing velocity and quality for product-oriented teams.

We believe that developers should take full ownership of their work: from the initial feature planning phase alongside Product and Design; choosing the right technologies, designing the code and architecture; coding; PRing; and all the way to actual deployment in CI/CD environment, as well as post-deployment monitoring. It is all your responsibility.

Whether you enjoy writing complex business logic in the backend or tweaking the servers and infrastructure to perform well at scale, we encourage you to get your hands dirty end-to-end.

Our Stack: Scala, Cats Effect, AWS, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Aerospike, Snowflake, Airflow. Grafana, ArgoCD and more

*** A third party will recruit, hire, and employ this position

The estimated base salary range for this role is €70,000 to €75,000. Compensation estimates are based on market data about the role and level while individual compensation offers will be determined by factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Qualifications

• B.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent
• Over 5 years of demonstrated hands-on experience in server-side coding
• 4+ years of experience with Scala or equivalent knowledge in Haskell/F#
• Familiar with microservice architecture, k8s, cloud platforms (any)
• Proficient in database technologies (SQL/NoSQL)
• Familiarity with stream applications is advantageous
• An autodidactic approach to software development
• A team player with strong communication skills, but also capable of working independently

Join us in shaping the future of Riskified’s innovative FinTech solutions, contributing to our cutting-edge environment while honing your skills as a Backend Developer. If you’re ready to take on  impactful challenges and excel in a collaborative, forward-thinking team, we encourage you to apply.

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.

Some of our Lisbon Benefits & Perks:

• Hybrid mode of work
• Flexible schedule
• Recharge weekends
• Financial benefits
• Healthcare & dental benefits
• Lunch reimbursement
• Fully-stocked kitchens
• Commuter benefits
• Benefits package per month—per your choice, e.g., work-from-home equipment, gym membership, wellbeing activities, and more.
• Wellness program
• Celebrations and activities
• Team events
• Happy hours
• Awesome Riskified gifts and swags
• Volunteer programs
• Personal development
• Global onboarding
• Role-based technical skills training
• Full access to Udemy

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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.