About the role:

As a Senior in our team, you will be responsible for bringing Forter’s Portal to the next level, the web app used by our customers. Forter’s Portal is used by our customers daily to gain deep insights about their traffic, manage their daily operations effectively and harness Forter’s offering to boost their business.
Bring in your passion for delighting customers and your deep experience building cutting-edge web apps to help us build Forter’s future as the trust engine of e-commerce!

Why should you join us?

You will have a meaningful impact on bringing Forter’s Portal to the next level.

Forter’s Portal is used by our customers (Fortune 500 companies in various verticals) on a daily basis to gain deep insights about their traffic, manage their daily operations effectively, and harness Forter’s offering to boost their business. Being part of the Portal team means being involved and impacting multiple offerings we have as part of Forter’s trust platform: Fraud, Payments, Identities, Bots, Abuse and more!

You’ll be working with talented and sharp people who care about their craft and product, building together a beautiful system while always helping each other to succeed together.You will have an opportunity to bring in your passion for delighting customers and your deep experience building cutting edge web apps to help us build Forter’s future as the trust engine of ecommerce and help the company grow and succeed.

We want you with us for the long-term!
We care about your growth and the balance between your work and personal life.
We even have a shared and clear career ladder you can view to learn more about our growth plans for engineers.

What you'll be doing:

• You will create UX that will bring the “wow!” out of our customers - Deliver visually stunning, highly interactive user interfaces with a meticulous attention to details
• You will lead and push our FE code to the highest standards, so our components can be used throughout Forter’s various offerings
• You will collaborate with Product/UX on new offerings and products. This includes everything from requirements gathering, planning, execution & communication to stakeholders
• You will continuously adapt our client technology stack to the state of the art industry standard
• You will be the go-to person for everyone in the group for consulting, code reviews and technical help in the FE world especially

Who are you?

• 6+ years of experience on client-side development, on a large scale
• Extensive experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and React
• Highly experienced with Javascript and frontend development while having deep understanding of how Javascript works
• Highly experienced working with Product and UX as part of a team that knows to deliver together high quality abilities with strong business value to customers
• Someone who enjoys having responsibility and having a real sense of ownership of the products he/she works on
• Fast learner and self-motivated
• Proven experience in the architecture of design system and components
• Excellent communicator and team player with strong verbal and written skills in English
• Knows how to balance between practical and innovative solutions and also between short term and long term
• Experienced with mentoring others to become better at the UX parts. Has a strong drive for helping other devs level up in the UX part!

Would be really cool if you have some experience with

• Leading at least 1-2 big initiatives in previous companies in the frontend side (Design system, big architecture change, other complex initiatives)
• RESTful API design
• Relational and NoSQL databases
• Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Backend development using Node.js

About us:

Digital commerce is built on trust. At every point along the eCommerce journey, businesses must make a critical decision: Can I trust this customer? Answering this simple question accurately and instantly is powerful—it can accelerate revenue growth and strengthen a company’s connection with its customers. How do we do it? Forter was founded on the insight that it's not about what is being purchased, nor where— but who is behind the interaction.

The Forter Decision Engine finds patterns across more than one billion identities in our dataset. We isolate fraudsters and protect customers—ensuring everyone gets the experience they deserve. Given that trust is central to how we operate, Forter is very much driven by a defined set of values. We attract remarkable talent and have retention and engagement levels that are well above benchmarks. We’re meticulous about strengthening our culture as we grow and ensuring this is an environment where people can have outsized impact.

Trust is backed by data – Forter is a recipient of over 10 workplace and innovation awards, including:

• Great Place to Work Certification (2021, 2022, 2023)
• Fortune’s Best Workplaces in NYC (2022)
• #3 on Fast Company’s list of “Most Innovative Finance Companies” (2022)
• Forbes Cloud 100 (2021, 2022)
• SAP Pinnacle Awards “New Partner Application Award” (2023)
• Fintech Breakthrough Awards – Best Fraud Prevention Platform (2023)

Life as a Forterian:

We are a team of over 500 Forterians spread across 3 different continents. Since 2013, we've raised $525 million from investors such as Tiger Global, Bessemer, Sequoia Capital, March Capital and Salesforce Ventures. We're on a mission to bring trust to global digital commerce so that companies like Nordstrom, Priceline, Instacart and ASOS can block fraud, drive revenue and improve customer experience.

At Forter, we believe unique people create unique ideas, and valuable experience comes in many forms. So, even if your background doesn't match everything we have listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply and tell us why your skills and values could be an asset to us. By welcoming different perspectives, we grow together as humans and as a company.