Senior Software Engineer, Trust & Safety

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GivebutterNonprofit Fundraising Software
Work remotely from one of our 10 hubs (Austin, Denver, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Salt Lake City, Minneapolis, Seattle, and Nashville).Full-TimeSenior
Salary$170K - $190K
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Job Details

Experience
6+ years
Required Skills
AWSPHPTypeScriptReactDistributed Systems

Requirements

  • 6+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Experience in fraud, trust & safety, risk, abuse prevention, or adjacent domains.
  • Experience building fraud detection or risk decisioning systems such as rule engines, scoring systems, policy frameworks, or investigation platforms.
  • Strong backend engineering fundamentals including designing scalable, event-driven systems.
  • Experience reasoning about distributed architecture tradeoffs.
  • Experience debugging production issues across multiple layers of the stack.
  • Ability to partner with end-users and cross-functional stakeholders to discover problems and validate solutions.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to turn ambiguous needs into shippable work.
  • Good judgment and prioritization skills for breaking down vague problems into concrete plans.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement fraud detection and risk decisioning systems, rule engines, scoring pipelines, and event-driven risk signals.
  • Create investigation and review tooling that helps our Trust & Safety operations team triage, investigate, and resolve cases efficiently.
  • Work closely with manager, product, and operations stakeholders to identify exposures, propose solutions, and help prioritize the roadmap.
  • Develop a deep understanding of fraud vectors in the fundraising and payments space, including stolen cards, synthetic identities, and campaign abuse.
  • Harden transaction lifecycles against abuse across payment systems.
  • Mentor team members on Trust & Safety domain expertise and provide code reviews.
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