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Sr. Software Engineer- Identity & Fraud Platform

Job role: Sr. Software Engineer- Identity & Fraud Platform
Job Type: Full Time
Location: Remote in California Remote in Colorado Remote in Texas Remote in Virginia

About Zumigo: 

  • Zumigo helps enterprises reduce fraud and verify digital identity using mobile intelligence, telecom data, behaviorial signals, and real-time risk analytics.
  • Our API’s power identity verification, account protection, onboarding, and fraud prevention for enterprises, fintechs, and digital platforms.
  • We process millions of transactions and build systems that help businesses make trust decisions in real time.
  • We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build real-time AI-powered fraud and identity systems.

What You’ll Do: 

  • Design and build scalable backend services and API’s
  • Develop systems that process identity, fraud, and telecom signals in real time
  • Build distributed services supporting high-volume transactions
  • Build backend services powering AI-driven fraud detection and identity intelligence
  • Integrate machine learning models into real-time decisioning APIs
  • Work with feature pipelines, behavioral signals, and risk scoring systems
  • Support inference pipelines for fraud risk models and anomaly detection
  • Collaborate with data scientists to productionize AI models
  • Build systems that expose AI-generated trust and fraud signals to enterprise customers
  • Improve platform reliability, performance, and observability
  • Work with cloud-native infrastructure and large-scale datasets
  • Collaborate with engineering, product, and data teams
  • Participate in architecture decisions and technical roadmap planning
  • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering best practices

Required Skills:

  • 7+ years of backend software engineering experience
  • Strong Java development experience
  • Experience building REST APIs and distributed systems
  • Experience with Play Framework and Akka or similar distributed processing frameworks
  • Experience with AWS or cloud infrastructure
  • Experience with databases such as MongoDB, Redis, or SQL
  • Familiarity with integrating AI/ML models into production systems
  • Understanding of model inference APIs, feature engineering, or scoring pipelines
  • Experience working with high-volume behavioral or telemetry data
  • Understanding of fraud analytics, anomaly detection, or risk scoring concepts
  • Strong debugging and production troubleshooting skills
  • Understanding of scalable system design and performance optimization
  • Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies including Docker and Kubernetes or clustered/containerized deployments
  • Excellent communication skills with ability to interface with partners and customers
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline

Nice to Have:

  • Python experience
  • AI or machine learning integration exposure
  • Event-driven architecture or messaging systems
  • Experience in fraud, identity verification, fintech, cybersecurity, or telecom domains

Tech Stack:  

  • Java
  • Python
  • Play Framework
  • Akka/Distributed Processing
  • Model Serving APIs
  • AI-assisted development workflows
  • LLM integration or intelligent decisioning systems
  • MongoDB
  • AWS
  • REST API’s
  • Docker/Kubernetes

Why Join Zumigo: 

  • Work on meaningful fraud prevention and identity challenges
  • Build systems used by enterprise customers
  • Solve large-scale backend and data problems
  • Small team with high ownership and impact
  • Opportunity to help shape AI-enabled identity intelligence

Engineering Culture: 

  • Strong ownership and autonomy
  • Cloud-native architecture
  • Modern engineering practices
  • AI-assisted development workflows
  • Fast-moving environment with real technical challenges

Apply:

  • If you enjoy solving complex backend problems, building scalable APIs, and working on identity and fraud intelligence systems, we’d love to hear from you and receive your resume.

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