Senior/Staff Fraud Engineer

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.

About the Role:

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

  • Face Auth, our liveness detection and time-of-use enforcement mechanism

  • Integration with our Fraud Risk Engine

  • Systems that enable our operations teams to respond to user reports and that enforce their actions across our stack

  • SDK/API integrations with external providers

  • 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 system

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

About You:

• 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

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.

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Pay transparency statement (for CA based roles):

The reasonably estimated salary for this role at TFH ranges from $215,000 – $250,000, plus a competitive long term incentive package. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate’s skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, TFH offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, vision, a 401(k) plan and match, life insurance, flexible time off, commuter benefits, professional development stipend and much more!