Senior/Staff Fraud Engineer

This Senior/Staff Fraud Engineer role focuses on owning and integrating critical controls for user safety and network security within the World App. You will work across backend and mobile platforms, ensuring robust fraud prevention mechanisms and improving user experience for users.

Overview

Department

Engineering

Job type

Full time

Compensation

$215,000 - $250,000 per year

Location

San Francisco, United States, North America

Resume Assistance

See how well your resume matches this job role with our AI-powered score. By uploading your resume, you agree to our Terms of Service

Click to upload

or drag and drop

pdf, doc, or docx (max. 10MB)

Ready to apply?

You're one step away - it takes less than a minute to upload your resume

About the Company

World is a network of real humans, built on privacy-preserving proof-of-human technology, and powered by a globally inclusive financial network that enables the free flow of digital assets for all. It is built to connect, empower, and be owned by everyone.

About the Team

People spend fifteen seconds with an Orb, but a lifetime with the World App. As such, the App team plays a critical role in fulfilling our mission. Using the App, people can join the World network, participate in decentralized finance in a friendly and self-custodial manner, and use their WorldID to unlock services across the ecosystem.

The intersection of our App and our controls for Fraud, Risk, Safety, and Security are a broad set of integrations and mechanisms to ensure the safety and security of our users and the World network.

This role is a broad position with responsibility across the entire surface of our application and its related systems and tooling.

Key Responsibilities

Own end-to-end the integrations of our most critical controls and ensuring their enforcement is neither circumvented nor negatively impacting our users.

Integrate with Face Auth, our liveness detection and time-of-use enforcement mechanism.

Integrate with our Fraud Risk Engine.

Develop systems that enable our operations teams to respond to user reports and enforce their actions across our stack.

Integrate SDK/API with external providers.

Implement client platform specific features (Android, iOS etc) to prevent misuse.

Advocate for our users, partnering with our data analytics team and our fraud/risk analytics team to identify false positives and adjust rules and system.

Partner with Product teams to improve the user experience for our users that come into contact with these systems.

Provide broad review of engineering changes that affect these systems.

Accomplish all the above while implementing strict access controls, data retention policies, and minimizing user data collected.

Qualifications

Great at cross-functional work, prioritizing, and self-organizing

Strong technical architecture skills across backend and mobile platforms

Privacy-minded and capable of adopting an adversarial mindset

Strong communication skills

Capable of direct individual contribution across our stack

Nice-to-Have Skills

Experience in security, fraud, trust & safety, or related domains.

Mobile development - being comfortable understanding the logic implemented in our android and iOS applications

Data analysis and engineering experience - to help you build an understanding the true impact of controls

Benefits

Healthcare

Dental

Vision

401(k) plan and match

Life insurance

Flexible time off

Commuter benefits

Professional development stipend and much more!

Additional Information

If you don't think you meet all of the criteria below but still are interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box, and we're looking for someone excited to join the team.

By submitting your application, you consent to the processing and internal sharing of your CV within the company, in compliance with the GDPR.