TabaPay
Fraud & Risk Engineer
Palo Alto, CA
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 1 day ago
PythonJavaGitSQLRESTMachine LearningA/B TestingSystems Engineering
About the role
- TabaPay is a highly profitable rocketship that processes billions of dollars each year.
- This foundational, high-visibility role sits at the intersection of fraud strategy and technical execution.
- You keep pace with the fraud monitoring and decisioning tooling landscape (rules engines, feature stores, decisioning platforms, emerging typologies) and bring ideas home.
Responsibilities
- Create rule packages: precise decision logic, assumptions, test cases, acceptance criteria, documentation and performance monitoring plans.
- Design configurable rule templates that enable clients and internal users to safely manage decisioning through self-service capabilities
- Craft precise risk decisioning workflows for all individual rules as well as the decision tree designs across use cases and the company level portfolio view.
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate rule design, documentation, testing, validation and ongoing optimization
- Drive rule experimentation through A/B testing, shadow mode assessments and phased rollouts in production
- In this highly hands-on individual contributor role, you'll design, build, test, deploy, monitor, and optimize fraud detection and risk decisioning rules that transform fraud trends, analyst insights, client needs, and regulatory requirements into high-impact solutions.
- You'll own the full lifecycle of decisioning logic while helping establish the standards, processes, and engineering practices that will scale TabaPay's Risk Platform.
- You'll partner closely with Financial Crimes Compliance, Fraud Risk, Chargebacks, Product, Engineering, Operations, Client Services, and Insights to strengthen our real-time fraud and financial crime detection capabilities.
- Deliver a portfolio of high-quality production decisioning rules.
- Establish repeatable standards for rule design, testing and documentation.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Mathematics or similar
- Must have hands-on experience authoring, configuring and tuning rules in a decisioning or rules engine such as Featurespace, Feedzai, DataVisor, Riskified or a comparable risk decisioning platform.
- A systems thinker with the ability to see how one rule interacts with the rest
- Proven proficiency with SQL and either Java or Python for advanced features
- Proven proficiency with JSON data formats, APIs, REST, Git
- Knowledge of fraud and financial crime typologies
- Ability to translate ambiguous rule requests from a variety of stakeholders (technical and non-technical) and translate those requests into precise rule logic.
- Master's Degree in a rigorous data discipline or mathematics
- Familiarity with BSA/AML requirements and typologies
- Experience with AI-assisted rule design, testing, and iteration
Nice to have
- Experience within payments, fintech or financial services is a strong plus
- ML Modeling experience and/or training is a plus
- Experience with business intelligence UIs is a plus
Skills
- Design decision architecture and build reusable decision frameworks.
- Perform rigorous validation before shipping rules for deployment
- Evaluate emerging AI techniques for fraud rule generation, simulation and decision explainability.
- Apply engineering discipline to rule authorship - versioning, testing, modularity, documentation.
- Present to stakeholders why the rule exists, how it works, how it fits within the risk strategy and the expected customer impact
Compensation
- The pay range for this position is $125,000; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Benefits
- TabaPay offers the following benefits:
- 100% employer-paid health care insurance including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance (for employee only)
- Generous and Flexible PTO
Company info
- The world is moving towards instant digital payments and TabaPay is leading the way. We help thousands of Fintechs in the US and Canada instantly move money in and out of accounts and we are actively expanding into other countries. Our customers represent the hottest verticals in the financial service industry such as neobanks, challenger brokers, gaming and wallets. TabaPay is a highly profitable rocketship that processes billions of dollars each year. To learn more visit www.tabapay.com.
- At TabaPay, delivering best-in-class financial crime prevention is central to our mission. We're building the next generation of scalable, configurable risk decisioning capabilities, and we're looking for a Fraud & Risk Decisioning Engineer to help drive that effort.
- In this highly hands-on individual contributor role, you'll design, build, test, deploy, monitor, and optimize fraud detection and risk decisioning rules that transform fraud trends, analyst insights, client needs, and regulatory requirements into high-impact solutions. You'll own the full lifecycle of decisioning logic while helping establish the standards, processes, and engineering practices that will scale TabaPay's Risk Platform.
- This foundational, high-visibility role sits at the intersection of fraud strategy and technical execution. You'll partner closely with Financial Crimes Compliance, Fraud Risk, Chargebacks, Product, Engineering, Operations, Client Services, and Insights to strengthen our real-time fraud and financial crime detection capabilities. We are looking for a builder, investigator, analyst, and technical problem solver who is passionate about creating intelligent risk solutions.
- The world is moving towards instant digital payments and TabaPay is leading the way.
- We help thousands of Fintechs in the US and Canada instantly move money in and out of accounts and we are actively expanding into other countries.
- Our customers represent the hottest verticals in the financial service industry such as neobanks, challenger brokers, gaming and wallets.
- To learn more visit www.tabapay.com.
- At TabaPay, delivering best-in-class financial crime prevention is central to our mission.
- We're building the next generation of scalable, configurable risk decisioning capabilities, and we're looking for a Fraud & Risk Decisioning Engineer to help drive that effort.
Equal opportunity
- TabaPay is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other protected classification.
- EEO Employer: TabaPay is an
- equal opportunity employer
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