What You'll Do
Design and implement robust systems that detect, assess, and reduce financial risk across the platform. You'll develop and maintain a high-throughput rules engine and integrate machine learning models to adapt to evolving risk patterns. Build and optimize 24/7 APIs and distributed services deployed on AWS, ensuring reliability and performance at scale.
Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to define and deliver risk features across web and mobile applications. Contribute to architectural decisions and advocate for scalable, maintainable solutions using Java and Spring Boot within a service-oriented environment.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 5 years focused on Java development
- Proven background in risk engineering, particularly with rules engines, fraud detection, or credit risk systems
- Strong command of Java frameworks including Spring (core, web, Boot), Gradle, JUnit, and JVM performance tuning
- Experience building scalable REST APIs, message queues, and distributed systems
- Hands-on work with AWS services such as EKS, Aurora RDS, Elasticache, and DynamoDB
- Familiarity with containerization and service-oriented architectures
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, particularly using GitHub Actions
- Proficiency in observability tools like DataDog for monitoring and incident response
- Background with big data platforms such as Snowflake
- Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code using CDK or Terraform
- Track record of mentoring engineers and advancing team practices
- Strong communication skills and experience working in cross-functional settings
Work Mode
This is a local position based in NYC, requiring on-site collaboration as part of a cross-functional team.
Company Culture
We're focused on transforming rent flexibility for tenants through innovative FinTech solutions. Our environment encourages ownership, rapid iteration, and discreet development of high-impact features. Engineers work closely with product and design to build systems that directly support our mission of financial empowerment.
