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Software Fraud Engineer

Summary

Build real-time fraud detection systems and risk engines to prevent account takeover, payment fraud, and multi-accounting in a crypto-fintech environment using backend services and event-driven architectures.

We're looking for a Software Fraud Engineer to design and build our next-generation fraud prevention platform. You'll develop real-time fraud detection systems, risk engines, and automated decision-making services that protect both our users and business.

This is an engineering role focused on building fraud prevention systems — not a manual fraud operations position.

Responsibilities

Fraud Detection

  • Design and develop fraud detection systems for payments, wallets, authentication, and user activity.
  • Detect account takeover, payment fraud, bonus abuse, multi-accounting, and other abuse scenarios.
  • Build real-time fraud pipelines and event processing systems.
  • Develop automated fraud prevention mechanisms.

Risk Engine

  • Build and improve fraud rules, velocity controls, and dynamic risk scoring.
  • Design decision engines for transaction approval, review, or rejection.
  • Continuously optimize fraud detection accuracy while minimizing false positives.
  • Improve fraud models using behavioral and transactional data.

Data & Analytics

  • Analyze transaction patterns, user behavior, device intelligence, and risk signals.
  • Work with large-scale event streams and transactional datasets.
  • Create internal investigation and monitoring tools for Fraud, Support, and Compliance teams.
  • Investigate emerging fraud patterns and rapidly deploy countermeasures.

Engineering

  • Develop scalable backend services supporting fraud prevention.
  • Build APIs and internal tooling for risk evaluation.
  • Optimize latency for real-time fraud decisions.
  • Collaborate closely with Product, Payments, Data, and Platform teams.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Experience building fraud prevention, risk, payment, banking, fintech, or security systems.
  • Strong backend development experience (Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, or similar).
  • Experience working with distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
  • Strong SQL skills and experience with large datasets.
  • Understanding of payment flows, authentication, and transactional systems.
  • Experience designing real-time decision engines.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Fluent English.

Nice to have

  • Experience in crypto, Web3, or blockchain.
  • Experience with Kafka, ClickHouse, Redis, Elasticsearch, or similar technologies.
  • Experience with machine learning models for fraud detection.
  • Knowledge of AML, KYC, or payment risk systems.
  • Experience with device fingerprinting, behavioral analytics, or identity verification.

Benefits

  • Professional growth: support for courses, conferences, and English learning (up to 100% coverage).
  • Work-life fit: remote or hybrid format with flexible hours across international teams.
  • Paid leave: up to 20 vacation days + 8 company holidays + 5 personal days per year
  • Recognition programs: structured performance reviews and team awards.
  • Team culture: retreats in international locations (for example, company apartments in Cyprus).

What this application asks

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First name, Last name, Email, Headline, Phone, Address, Photo, Current location, Education, Experience, Summary, Resume, Cover letter, Availability, Are you ready to receive your salary in USDT?, Languages fluently speaking

  • Do you currently live outside of Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Pakistan, and India? yes / no
  • Are you able to communicate professionally in Russian — in writing and in calls? yes / no
  • Are you able to communicate professionally in English — in writing and in calls? yes / no

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