Risk Engineer

The position is within the risk engineering team, which is tasked with designing, building, maintaining and operating the set of services that underwrites Paidy’s transactions. These services use machine learning models to predict credit risk and statistical models to detect, block and alert on fraudulent transactions in milliseconds. Recently our scope of work expanded to include designing, building and maintaining new internal web application tools that empower internal teams to experiment with and implement better fraud detection/prevention methods, credit risk policies, and collections policies to further maximize our revenue. We enjoy using Scala in a functional and pragmatic way to ease the burden of delivering quality backend software. We prefer simple solutions that allow us to iterate quickly and deploy them to production often. We value ownership and trust each other to deliver quality work in a timely manner.

Key Role and Responsibilities

• Work in cross-functional teams that include product owners, data scientists and other business domain engineers to deliver new features.
• Periodically evaluate if our services are meeting our security, maintainability, observability and reliability standards, capture any deficiencies and work with the rest of the team to address them.
• Work directly with product owners and stakeholders to ensure that new requirements will not degrade our platform’s performance, reliability or security.
• When assigned as a feature team lead, design and build consensus around new solutions architecture, build the technical implementation roadmap and work with the team to execute it.

Skills and Requirements

Required to have:

• Knowledge of Functional Programming and/or Scala and its ecosystem
• Understanding of software architecture and design with the ability to align the overall service architecture
• Experience with building distributed systems, scalability and low latency software
• Experience with maintaining and further developing existing code bases
• Ability to work with non-experts, discuss their needs and help them formulate their requirements.
• Ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-experts
• Shows interest in the organization's engineering strategy, product development strategy and how that aligns to the overall business strategy
• Ability to define task outlines and deliverables
• Demonstrates a sense of urgency when required
• Ability to manage some ambiguity and exercises good judgment when needed
• Ability to give and receive constructive feedback tactfully upstream and downstream
• Excellent communication skills, ability to interact effectively with multidisciplinary teams

Big plus if you have experience with:

• Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Kafka and Postgres
• CircleCI, AWS, Fargate, Terraform, Datadog
• Modern front end technologies
• Event Sourcing and CQRS
• Working on a payment platform or other fintech field

What We Offer You

• Diversified team with 150+ colleagues from 30+ countries
• Exciting work opportunities in a rapid-growing organization
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Flexible work-from-home arrangement
• Competitive salary and benefits

Send your resume to paidy@scalajobs.com