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Netflix - 1d ago

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Senior Software Engineer

Reddit - 4d ago

Golang Backend Engineer, Financial Product Fraud

Requirements:

  • 3 to 6 years of professional software engineering experience, including backend services you have shipped and owned in production.
  • 1+ years of production experience in Golang, or strong experience in another backend language and real enthusiasm for picking Go up quickly.
  • A working understanding of low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems.
  • Hands-on experience with SQL and/or NoSQL databases, and some exposure to event-driven architectures (Kafka or similar).
  • Willingness to operate what you build, including a share of on-call, with a pragmatic approach to reliability.
  • Uses AI tooling in day-to-day development and can critically evaluate its output for correctness and quality.

Nice to Have:

  • Experience in fraud, risk, payments, lending, or financial crime.
  • Experience with rules engines, real-time feature stores, or ML model serving in a decisioning path.
  • Background in Kotlin, Java, Python, or Node.js alongside Go.
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP).
  • Experience working across multiple brands, regions, or regulatory regimes.

What You'll Be Doing:

  • Build and maintain high-throughput, low-latency backend services in Go that score financial events in real time.
  • Design fraud detection and automated enforcement for financial products end to end.
  • Partner closely with risk analysts, data scientists, and product managers.
  • Contribute to architectural discussions and technical decisions.
  • Write well-tested, observable code and help the team hold a high quality bar.

Perks and Benefits:

  • A product-oriented mindset and responsibility for outcomes.
  • Comfort with ambiguity and a collaborative spirit.
  • Clear and proactive communication with a focus on success together.
  • An adversarial instinct and thinking like the attacker.
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