Senior Software Engineer, Risk
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Senior Software Engineer enhancing risk control systems at Shakepay, focusing on fraud prevention and operational efficiency with a small, dedicated team.
Responsibilities:
- Build and evolve core risk systems and decisioning infrastructure
- Design and implement scalable backend services that support fraud prevention and compliance
- Improve data instrumentation and observability to enable accurate risk analysis and reporting
- Partner with data, security, compliance, and CS to translate risk insights into effective controls
- Iterate on risk rules and frameworks to reduce false positives and false negatives
- Contribute to internal tools that support investigations and operational efficiency
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing
- Help define technical direction and best practices for the Risk team
- Operate with a strong sense of ownership in a small, high-impact team
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer
- Strong backend engineering experience building and operating scalable systems
- Solid understanding of system design, data flows, and performance optimization
- Experience working in highly collaborative, cross-functional environments
- Comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces with evolving requirements
- Strong sense of ownership and focus on business and customer impact.
Benefits:
- 🤝 Be an owner - Every employee has stock options as part of their total compensation.
- 🥅 Reach your goals - Yearly salary assessments.
- 🦷 Health & wellness : Access to health and dental coverage, including health and wellness spending accounts.
- 🌎 Remote-friendly: Work from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to our office spaces in Montreal and Toronto.
- 🆙 Level Up: A $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training to support your career growth.
- 🌴 Time off: 20 days of vacation per year. And if you use all your vacation, we give you a $1,000 bonus.
- 🐣 Parental leave: Enjoy a parental leave top up to 100% of your salary for 18 weeks.
- 🙌 Have fun together: quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsite to connect with each other.


















