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Backend / API Engineer, Radar
San Francisco, Seattle, New York +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, Seattle, New York
US - Experience
- 2+ years of industry software engineering experience.
About the job
Builds backend services, APIs, infrastructure, and user experiences that help businesses detect and prevent payment fraud and abuse.
What you'll do
- Build and operate reliable, low-latency fraud-prevention services and shared platform infrastructure.
- Design APIs and dashboards for investigating threats and configuring defenses.
- Partner with users, product teams, and ML specialists to launch and improve Radar capabilities.
What they ask for
- 2+ years of industry software engineering experience.
- Strong coding skills in any programming language and experience building and maintaining production software.
- Ability to work across systems, learn unfamiliar codebases, and make thoughtful technical trade-offs.
- Strong problem-solving, collaboration, communication, and ownership skills.
Nice to have
- Experience with distributed systems or real-time services, APIs, developer platforms, or complex user interfaces.
- Experience bringing ML or AI into production, or working in fraud, abuse, risk, or security.
AI focus
Partner with ML engineers and data scientists to bring new signals, models, and AI capabilities into production.
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