Engineering Manager - Digital Trust
Feedzai · Portugal · 11d ago
At Feedzai, we're building a world of safer money. A world where financial institutions move faster than criminals. Where the payments that fund real lives through salaries, savings, and businesses are protected in real time. We use trusted AI to detect and prevent financial crime, fraud, and money laundering at scale: the world's top banks, payment networks, and acquirers trust our technology to safeguard more than one billion consumers and $9 trillion in payment volume every year.
Feedzai is a Series D company and has raised $282M to date. With a valuation of $2 billion, our technology protects 1 billion consumers and 90 billion transactions each year.
The Engineering (Tech) Team is responsible for all Feedzai product development. Together with Product Management and Data Science, we build the next generation of tools to catch fraud in real-time with a machine learning first approach. Formed by engineers and managed by engineers, at Feedzai, you will find one of the most talented teams out there, from junior to senior engineers.
We are fast-paced and provide a safe, open, and collaborative environment that encourages us to lean in, try new things and discover our potential with continuous learning for everyone.
While building the best value for our customers, you will work with a wide range of technical challenges. Such as building distributed systems that need to operate 24/7 and ultra-low latencies, solving UI/UX problems to help fraud analysts to fight fraud more efficiently. In addition, designing extensive databases from relational, NoSQL and graphs, validate and develop new data science techniques and algorithms.
You:
As an Engineering Manager in the Digital Trust team, you will lead a team responsible for developing cutting-edge fraud detection and prevention capabilities, fighting systemic risks such as Account Take Over, Scams and many more. The Digital Trust team focuses on securing digital interactions by leveraging device intelligence, behavioral biometrics, cyber threat intelligence, and network analytics in order to ascertain legitimacy and security of any digital session, being it over web or mobile.
You will play a key role in ensuring the scalability, security, and performance of our Digital Trust solutions, which help financial institutions detect anomalies, assess risk, and protect users from digital fraud. This role requires strong technical leadership, stakeholder management, and the ability to drive a team towards innovation and execution.
You should be an engineer at heart who enjoys solving complex technical challenges while mentoring and developing top talent. Your ability to align technical execution with business goals will be crucial in shaping the future of Digital Trust at Feedzai.
Your Day to Day:
- Manage a team of engineers, supporting their career growth and day-to-day execution.
- Work closely with Product Management to transform requirements and ideas into working software
- Lead by example, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and collaboration.
- Provide technical leadership, guiding the team in architecture, design, and code reviews.
- Drive the planning, execution, and success of technical projects
- Collaborate with key stakeholders across Engineering, Product, Data Science, and Security teams.
- Champion best practices in DevOps, security, scalability, and performance for Digital Trust products.
- Work closely with recruiting to attract and hire top-tier engineering talent.
You Have & You Know-how:
- 3+ years of team leadership and/or management experience in technical teams.
- 6+ years of software development experience.
- Good knowledge of cloud-native technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker) and modern software architecture.
- Experience working with high-scale distributed systems in a SaaS environment.
- Ability to balance technical innovation with business impact and drive results.
- Hands-on experience with network security, behavioral analytics, or device intelligence is a plus.
- Excellent English skills. Spanish is a plus (if not your mother tongue)
Valued:
- Experience in fast-paced environments with evolving requirements.
- Experience in security, fraud prevention, cyber threat intelligence, or related areas is a plus.
- Strong skills in leadership, adaptability, and problem-solving.
- Ability to manage stakeholder expectations and push back when necessary.
- Solution-oriented mindset—when challenges arise, you roll up your sleeves to get things done.
- A team player who empowers engineers to reach the next level.
Feedzai is an engineering company committed to growing with high standards in building its products. As an engineering manager, you will help to guarantee that this engineering culture persists at management levels combining both technical leadership and people leadership.
The Product Team builds our product to disrupt the financial crime industry from a data-led approach. We partner with our clients using a holistic lens and have result-driven solutions to manage financial risk with a cloud-first platform and a world-class UX interface. Being part of this team, you have a voice in planning, strategizing, and challenging the status quo. Your thoughts and ideas are valued. Our fast-paced and open environment encourages us to lean in, try new things, and discover our potential. We define and act on what could be in tomorrow's world, not on what is today. Join Us!
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Your First 30-Days at Feedzai:
You will be immersed in our brand with training, connections, and one-on-one time with your manager. You may shadow your colleagues virtually or onsite at an office depending on where you work as you are supported through your Feedzai journey. In addition, you will have access to a ton of information to give you history, context, and all the knowledge you can handle about Feedzai and the team. Finally, you will start working on projects and collaborating on work currently being done. We can't wait to have you join the team!
Feedzai is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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