Software Engineer, Fraud & Identity (Fintech)

TL;DR

Software Engineer, Fraud & Identity (Fintech): Building systems across Fraud, UIM (User & Identity Management), and Identity with an accent on security, risk decisioning, and product experience. Focus on building detection and enforcement capabilities for fraud and account takeover, as well as the identity primitives that power authentication, authorization, and safe account access.

Location: New York, NY (HQ)

Salary: $168K - $284.9K

Company

hirify.global is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends.

What you will do

• Build and evolve backend services that detect and prevent fraud across multiple surfaces, including account access and money movement.
• Develop enforcement and response tooling that enables fast, safe actions such as identity locks, business locks, payment freezes, and other containment levers.
• Improve protections against account takeover (ATO), including risk-based step-ups, monitoring, and targeted friction controls.
• Design and operate high-signal systems with strong observability: metrics, dashboards, alerting, and playbooks for incidents and fraud campaigns.
• Partner with UIM/Identity stakeholders to strengthen authentication and identity foundations.
• Drive end-to-end delivery: technical design, implementation, rollout strategy, and iteration based on outcome metrics.

Requirements

• 3+ years of software engineering experience (or equivalent).
• Strong backend engineering fundamentals (APIs, distributed systems, data modeling, reliability).
• Experience building data-informed detection or decisioning systems, or strong interest in learning in this domain.
• Proven ability to operate production systems: debugging, incident response, and improving on-call quality through instrumentation and automation.
• Strong cross-functional communication skills and comfort working with product and operations partners.

Nice to have

• Experience in fraud, risk, identity, authentication, authorization, abuse prevention, or security engineering.
• Familiarity with payments rails, card transaction risk, or account security patterns.
• Experience building internal tools for operations teams (case management, investigation, enforcement workflows).

Culture & Benefits

• 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you and partially covered for your dependents.
• 401k (including employer match on contributions made while employed by hirify.global).
• Flexible PTO.
• Fertility HRA (up to $10,000 per year).
• Unlimited AI token usage.
• Relocation support to NYC or SF (as needed).