Senior Software Engineer, Risk Ecosystem

Job Description

Risk Engineering works to protect Square and our customers $200B+ in annual payments processed across 4B sales transactions from fraud and disputes.

The Risk Ecosystem team focuses on fraudsters pretending to be Square sellers across all Square products. On this team you will build systems to protect the reputation of Square and its sellers, detect and address fraudulent accounts, and improve the impact of controls on Square sellers. Your work will be in collaboration with partners spanning Risk functions and key infrastructure across Square.

You Will

• Collaborate with partner teams and functions to create and evolve fraud fighting frameworks usable by all Square products
• Design fault-tolerant systems to promote rapid iteration and improvement while keeping sellers and Square services safe
• Advocate and model engineering and technical operations best practices for security, privacy, and reliability
• Cultivate learning and mentorship with peers and partners

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development and system design experience
• Experience driving large scale strategic initiatives
• Demonstrated ownership for your work for the complete project’s life cycle
• Data-oriented mindset: you want your work to be measured and impactful
• Comfortable working with a globally distributed team of data scientists, engineers, and risk experts