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Description
Feedzai Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Overview
Feedzai is the world’s first RiskOps platform for financial risk management, and the market leader in safeguarding global commerce with today’s most advanced cloud-based risk management platform, powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence. Feedzai is securing the transition to a cashless world while enabling digital trust in every transaction and payment type. The world’s largest banks, processors, and retailers trust Feedzai to protect trillions of dollars and manage risk while improving the customer experience for everyday users, without compromising privacy. Feedzai is a Series D company and has raised $282M to date. With a valuation of +$1.5B, the company's technology protects 900 million people in 190 countries.
The Engineering (Tech) Team is responsible for all Feedzai product development. Together with Product Management and Data Science, we build the next generation of tools to catch fraud in real-time with a machine learning first approach. Formed by engineers and managed by engineers, at Feedzai, you will find one of the most talented teams out there, from junior to senior engineers. We are fast-paced and provide a safe, open, and collaborative environment that encourages us to lean in, try new things and discover our potential with continuous learning for everyone. While building the best value for our customers, you will work with a wide range of technical challenges, such as building distributed systems that need to operate 24/7 and ultra-low latencies, solving UI/UX problems to help fraud analysts fight fraud more efficiently, and designing extensive databases from relational, NoSQL and graphs, validate and develop new data science techniques and algorithms. Data and Data Engineering is at the heart of what we do.
Your Day To Day
- Iterate within an Agile squad to turn product ideas into shippable increments across the entire stack—from Scala micro‑services to other languages.
- Write idiomatic, reusable Scala code covered by unit, property‑based and integration tests; uphold quality through rigorous code reviews.
- Deliver end‑to‑end solutions—from building APIs to touching frontend components.
- Operate across the full SDLC—design, implement, test, deploy, observe, maintain and refine software services.
- Collaborate with Product & Design to translate UX wire‑frames into accessible, performant interfaces and iterate based on customer feedback.
- Champion engineering excellence by documenting decisions, sharing knowledge in guild sessions and mentoring peers across front‑ and back‑end domains.
You Have & You Know-how
- BSc/MSc in Computer Science (or equivalent) with strong algorithms, data‑structures and distributed‑systems fundamentals.
- 2+ years building production JVM back‑ends with Scala as a primary language (Cats‑Effect, ZIO, Akka, or similar).
- Proven ability to develop high‑performance, concurrent services and APIs (REST, gRPC, GraphQL, event‑driven).
- Hands‑on with modern data & messaging platforms (Kafka, Spark/Flink, Cassandra/DynamoDB, RabbitMQ or Pulsar) and comfortable working with them at scale.
- A growth mindset: curiosity, autonomy and the drive to learn, experiment and teach.
- Nice to have Cloud expertise—AWS services, container orchestration (K8s/EKS), observability stacks, IaC and automated multi‑environment deployments (back‑end & front‑end).
- Nice to have experience with a modern data stack (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, DuckDB, dbt, Airflow, Dagster, etc).
- Nice to have front‑end experience with React (or another modern JS framework) and TypeScript.
Product Team builds our product to disrupt the financial crime industry from a data-led approach. We partner with our clients using a holistic lens and have result-driven solutions to manage financial risk with a cloud-first platform and a world-class UX interface. Being part of this team, you have a voice in planning, strategizing, and challenging the status quo. Our fast-paced and open environment encourages us to lean in, try new things, and discover our potential. We define and act on what could be in tomorrow's world, not on what is today.
Your First 30-Days At Feedzai
You will be immersed in our brand with training, connections, and one-on-one time with your manager. You may shadow your colleagues virtually or onsite at an office depending on where you work as you are supported through your Feedzai journey. In addition, you will have access to a ton of information to give you history, context, and all the knowledge you can handle about Feedzai and the team. Finally, you will start working on projects and collaborating on work currently being done. We can’t wait to have you join the team!
Life at Feedzai
Feedzai is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Feedzai does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. Feedzai will use the personal data you provide us with by filling out this form for reviewing your application and to potentially negotiate a contract with you. Your personal data will be retained by Feedzai for 24 months following your application. Please see our Privacy Notice available at legal/feedzai-candidate-privacy-policy/ and legal/feedzai-california-candidates-privacy-policy/ for more information on how we process your personal data.
Details
- Seniority level: Entry level
- Employment type: Full-time
- Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
- Industries: Software Development, Financial Services, and IT Services and IT Consulting
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