About Us

Riskified empowers businesses to unleash ecommerce growth by taking risk off the table. Many of the world’s biggest brands and publicly traded companies selling online rely on Riskified for guaranteed protection against chargebacks, to fight fraud and policy abuse at scale, and to improve customer retention. Developed and managed by the largest team of ecommerce risk analysts, data scientists and researchers, Riskified’s AI-powered fraud and risk intelligence platform analyzes the individual behind each interaction to provide real-time decisions and robust identity-based insights. Riskified is proud to work with incredible companies in virtually all industries including Booking.com, Acer, Gucci, Lorna Jane, GoPro, and many more .

We thrive in a collaborative work setting, alongside great people, to build and enhance products that matter. Abundant opportunities to create and contribute provide us with a sense of purpose that extends beyond ourselves, leaving a lasting impact. These sentiments capture why we choose Riskified every day.

About the Role

• The Core team is part of the Merchant Platform group, which provides platform capabilities for fraud prevention and abuse protection to thousands of eCommerce merchants.

The Core Team consists of experienced backend engineers who are strong owners of Riskified’s core application platform and the foundational microservices that power the company’s flagship products. The team is responsible for all aspects of development: from planning with architects and product managers, researching and selecting the right technologies, implementing highly reliable and scalable systems, and ensuring they run smoothly in production at all times. The Core team works with vast amounts of data and processes billions of transactions.

• We actively leverage modern AI-assisted development tools (such as Claude Code, Cursor, and similar) to improve developer productivity, code quality, and continuous learning.

Riskified is moving toward broader adoption of AI-driven solutions, including internal AI agents that support engineering and operational workflows, as well as AI-powered capabilities in production-facing products. The Core team plays a key role in building and supporting the scalable, reliable platforms that enable this direction .

Our Stack: Scala, TypeScript, SQS, Kafka, Kafka Streams, Aerospike, CockroachDB, Redis, Spark, Airflow, Databricks, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design and develop highly reliable, available, and scalable architectures for our core services and flagship products
• Take strong ownership over production systems, ensuring they run smoothly and reliably at all times
• Deploy code to production on a daily basis using advanced CI/CD pipelines
• Work with large volumes of data in both real-time and batch processing systems, including stream processing, ETLs, and data warehouse technologies
• Take technical ownership over complex, cross-domain problems and drive them from design through production
• Play an active role in shaping the team roadmap and influencing product and technical direction

Collaborate closely with other engineering teams and product managers on cross-department initiatives

• 5+ years of proven experience in hands-on server-side development
• Passion for writing clean, tested, and high-quality code
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams
• Independent self-learner with a strong sense of ownership and accountability
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Hands-on experience with Scala or Java – advantage
• Experience building high-throughput, low-latency systems – advantage
• Experience working in microservices-based architectures – advantage
• Life at Riskified
• We are a fast-growing and dynamic tech company with 750+ team members globally. We value collaboration and innovative thinking. We’re looking for bright, driven, and passionate people to grow with us.
• Our Tel-Aviv team is currently working in a hybrid of remote and in-office work. We have recently moved to our new space in Tel Aviv - check it out here !
• Some of our Tel Aviv Benefits & Perks:
• Equity for all employees, Keren Hishtalmut, pension
• Private medical insurance, e xtra time off for parents and caregivers
• Commuter and parking benefits
• Wide-ranging opportunities to volunteer and make an impact
• Commitment to your professional development with global onboarding, s kills-based courses, full access to Udemy, lunch & learns
• Awesome Riskified gifts and swag!
• In the News
• Geektime: Riskified Goes Public
• Walla!: Happy Hour at the Riskified Offices
• Geektime Insider: A look at Riskified Tel Aviv
• Globes: Riskified to contribute the highest amount up to date to Tmura
• Globes: Riskified is among Israel’s fastest growing companies

TechCrunch: Riskified Prevents Fraud on Your Fa vorite E-commerce Site

• Team events, fully-stocked kitchen,lunch stipend, happy hours, y oga, pilates, functional training, basketball, soccer

Riskified is deeply committed to the principle of equal opportunity for all individuals. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.