Breeze
Senior Fraud and Risk Engineer
New York City · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 6 days ago
Machine LearningDetection EngineeringComplianceAdaptability
About the role
- Are you passionate about solving complex challenges in the fintech space?
- If you're passionate about creating innovative solutions in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, we want to talk to you.
- Senior Fraud & Risk Engineer Are you passionate about solving complex challenges in the fintech space?
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve Breeze's fraud risk engine, integrating Sift ML scoring and Sardine rules across all merchant categories
- Design and maintain a scalable rules architecture, including category-level defaults, merchant-specific overrides, velocity checks, and blocklists
- Continuously tune thresholds and features across merchant segments to optimize approval rates and minimize fraud
- Build feedback loops between manual review decisions, chargeback data, and model retraining to improve detection accuracy
- Partner closely with risk operations to translate real-world fraud patterns into automated rules and systems
- Lead onboarding of new merchants into the risk stack, solving cold-start challenges and calibrating risk for new verticals
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, and operations to ensure risk systems are scalable and deeply integrated into the platform
- Opportunity to build core risk infrastructure at a Sequoia-backed company with strong momentum and runway
Requirements
- Proven experience in fraud and risk engineering within payments, marketplaces, or acquiring processors (e.g., Stripe, Adyen, Square, Checkout.com, Worldpay)
- Experience operating multi-merchant or marketplace fraud systems, including segmentation, shared models, and per-merchant customization
- Strong understanding of rules engine design, including layered rules, velocity checks, and scalable rule management
- 6+ years of experience in fraud/risk engineering in fintech, payments, or related technology environments
- Proven experience working with or integrating fraud detection platforms (e.g., Sift, Sardine, Forter, Feedzai, Kount)
- Experience supporting multi-merchant or marketplace environments with complex risk needs
- Strong understanding of payments infrastructure, transaction flows, and fraud vectors
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Nice to have
- Familiarity with PCI compliance, 3DS, and PSP-level risk tooling is a plus
- Experience in high-risk verticals such as gaming, crypto, or digital goods is a plus
Skills
- Senior Fraud & Risk Engineer
- Preference on a colleague who can work hybrid in our NYC office.
Compensation
- Annual team retreat
Benefits
- annual medical allowance, productivity allowance, gym/well-being subsidy
- Competitive salary + equity
Company info
- What We're Looking For
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