Staff Engineer – Fraud Prevention

🕒 April 29

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $170k - $275k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Sardine

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2020

🔒 Cybersecurity

📋 Compliance

💳 Fintech

Cybersecurity • Compliance • Fintech

Sardine is a cutting-edge platform focused on fraud prevention and compliance. The company offers a behavior-based system for fraud detection, identity verification, and transaction monitoring that helps leading banks, online retailers, and fintechs protect themselves from scams and financial crime. Sardine's technology integrates advanced behavioral biometrics and device intelligence to combat identity fraud, payment fraud, and account takeovers. The platform also streamlines compliance checks such as KYC (Know Your Customer) and AML (Anti-Money Laundering) transaction monitoring. Sardine's comprehensive solution empowers its clients to automate risk decisioning, identify high-risk users early, and manage fraud across the customer journey effectively.

📋 Description

• Act as the overarching technical leader for multiple teams, partnering with stakeholders to unify platform strategy. • Architect, design, and optimize ultra-low-latency backend services and a high-throughput rules engine. • Design optimal data access patterns, partitioning strategies, and caching layers across our complex, multi-cloud database ecosystem. • Develop robust pipelines for massive parallel execution of real-time feature computations and aggregations. • Play a pivotal role in shaping engineering culture, mentoring senior engineers, and driving high technical standards from conception to delivery.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record operating at a Staff, Principal, or Lead Architect level. • Deep expertise in building highly available, distributed systems with strict ultra-low latency. • Hands-on experience working with stream processing frameworks (e.g., Kafka, Flink, SQS, PubSub) in production environments. • Advanced proficiency in polyglot persistence, with experience tuning data models across Document, Wide-Column, and Relational databases. • A strong platform engineering mindset focused on reliability, observability, and developer velocity. • Proficiency in communicating complex architectural concepts and driving cross-team consensus.

🏖️ Benefits

• Generous compensation in cash and equity • Early exercise for all options, including pre-vested • Work from anywhere: Remote-first Culture • Flexible paid time off and Year-end break • Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents - *US and Canada specific* • 4% matching in 401k / RRSP - *US and Canada specific* • MacBook Pro delivered to your door • One-time stipend to set up a home office — desk, chair, screen, etc. • Monthly meal stipend • Monthly social meet-up stipend • Annual health and wellness stipend • Annual Learning stipend