Fullstack Team Leader

About Us

Riskified empowers businesses to unleash ecommerce growth by taking risk off the table. Many of the world’s biggest brands and publicly traded companies selling online rely on Riskified for guaranteed protection against chargebacks, to fight fraud and policy abuse at scale, and to improve customer retention. Developed and managed by the largest team of ecommerce risk analysts, data scientists and researchers, Riskified’s AI-powered fraud and risk intelligence platform analyzes the individual behind each interaction to provide real-time decisions and robust identity-based insights. Riskified is proud to work with incredible companies in virtually all industries including Acer, Gucci, Lorna Jane, GoPro, and many more.

We thrive in a collaborative work setting, alongside great people, to build and enhance products that matter. Abundant opportunities to create and contribute provide us with a sense of purpose that extends beyond ourselves, leaving a lasting impact. These sentiments capture why we choose Riskified every day.

About the Role

As a Fullstack Team Leader at Riskified’s Merchant Platform group, you will lead a team of talented developers, working in a truly Agile environment where code is deployed several times a day and utilizing cutting-edge technologies.

Your team is in charge of building and maintaining a variety of applications designed to help our research and operational teams to expand Riskified’s ecosystem, and make an impact on our business on a daily basis. Combining smart people with big data is a great starting point, but once you throw in well-crafted tools with beautiful, insightful data visualizations, there’s no limit to where you can go, or in our case - the clear leaders of our industry.

We believe that our developers should take full ownership of their work: from the initial feature planning phase; choosing the right technologies, designing the code and architecture; coding; PRing; and all the way to actual deployment in CI/CD environment, as well as post-deployment monitoring.

We also believe it is the team leader’s responsibility to empower their employees and allow them to work independently while helping them to make the right choices and maintaining the highest levels of code quality, helping them to really grow as individuals and uniting them into a cohesive team that works as a unit.

We are looking for a true leader, someone who loves building applications: Whether it’s sitting with Product and Design to conceptualize the right product for our clients; Coming up with the best possible architecture and technologies for the specific requirements; managing the work in a truly agile environment; Maintaining the highest levels of production-awareness including testing, bug management and post-deployment analysis; And working in collaboration with internal stakeholders as well as other dev teams.

Our Stack: React, Angular, Node.js, Scala, Ruby, AWS, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Aerospike, snowflakes, airflow. Grafana, argoCD, CircleCI and more

****A third party will recruit, hire, and employ this position.*

What You'll Be Doing

• Recruit and lead talented software engineers as their direct manager.
• Run the team’s Agile development process, work together with Product to set objectives and build a development plan to achieve our goals.
• Find solutions and build products supporting our fraud management products, which will help our clients and internal departments expand Riskified’s ecosystem and make an impact on our business on a daily basis.
• Own the vision and roadmap for your teams’ domain.
• Define KPIs for success and identify opportunities to move these KPIs positively, Drive engineering efforts to execute and fulfill these opportunities.
• Monitor and analyze the performance, usage, and feedback of the platform, and identify opportunities for improvement and enhancement.
• Participate in hands-on development.

Qualifications

• 2+ years as Team Leader, working with Agile methodologies
• 4+ years of proven hands-on experience developing applications, both on the server and client-side with web frameworks (Angular, React)
• Proven track record in successfully leading and delivering enterprise solutions, from design to development to production
• Ability to inspire, lead, and mentor high-performing senior engineers
• Ability to deal with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment, while still focusing on goals
• Strong customer focus, excellent communication and relationship-building skills
• High standards for code quality, testing, and performance
• Strong communication skills
• Experience in building large-scale, distributed, highly available systems in Microservices architecture, cloud and SaaS environments
• Strong technical and product vision and the ability to communicate this vision to multiple audiences
• B.Sc. in Computer Science or military equivalent certifications

Life at Riskified

We are a fast-growing and dynamic tech company with 700+ team members globally. We value collaboration and innovative thinking. We’re looking for bright, driven, and passionate people to grow with us.

Our Lisbon team is currently working in a hybrid of remote and in-office work.

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Riskified is deeply committed to the principle of equal opportunity for all individuals. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.