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LeadFull-timeJavaData ScienceGitGoML
Salary Range
$153,000 - $207,000 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
We are looking for a Tech Lead to drive the technical direction, architecture, and delivery of Xsolla’s fraud prevention and risk systems. This role requires deep fintech and payments experience, strong understanding of Anti-Fraud Systems (AFS), and the ability to lead engineers building high-throughput, low-latency, decision-critical systems.
Key Responsibilities
- →Own the technical vision and architecture of Xsolla’s anti-fraud platform and services.
- →Design scalable, resilient systems for real-time transaction risk scoring, rule engines, and decision workflows.
- →Lead architectural decisions around AFS integrations, internal fraud engines, and third-party providers.
- →Ensure systems meet performance, reliability, security, and compliance requirements.
- →Translate fraud and risk requirements into robust technical solutions.
- →Partner with Risk, Payments, and Compliance teams on transaction monitoring, chargeback reduction, and regulatory requirements.
- →Evaluate and evolve fraud strategies across card-not-present transactions, alternative payment methods, and gaming-specific fraud vectors.
- →Lead a team of engineers, driving best practices in code quality, system observability, secure development, and incident response.
- →Work cross-functionally with Product Managers, Data Scientists, and Operations.
- →Mentor senior and mid-level engineers in both technical depth and domain expertise.
Requirements
- ✓8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time in fintech or payments.
- ✓Proven experience designing or leading Anti-Fraud Systems (AFS), such as rule engines, risk scoring pipelines, and decision orchestration systems.
- ✓Strong backend engineering skills (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Go, or similar).
- ✓Experience building high-volume, low-latency distributed systems.
- ✓Deep understanding of event-driven architectures, APIs, and data stores used for real-time decisioning.
- ✓Hands-on experience with fraud prevention in payment processing, digital commerce, and gaming or virtual goods.
- ✓Understanding of fraud patterns, abuse vectors, and mitigation techniques.
- ✓Familiarity with chargebacks, dispute flows, 3DS, risk exemptions, and payment scheme rules.
- ✓Proven ability to lead technically without relying solely on formal authority.
- ✓Strong decision-making skills in ambiguous, high-risk domains.
- ✓Excellent communication skills, able to explain complex technical and fraud concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
