Director of Engineering - ML Productionization

Who We Are:

Socure is redefining identity verification with groundbreaking technology, supporting myriad organizations with the most accurate authentication tools in the industry.

What we build helps businesses scale faster, stop fraud, and ultimately allows millions of people who are excluded from the digital economy (due to outdated fraud detection models) to take part in it like everyone else. 

Our culture is about innovation, winning, and customer obsession. We are full of top performers that prioritize excellence and results, as well as support for one another, on the path to achieving our mission: to verify 100% of good identities in real time and completely eliminate identity fraud for every applicant on the internet.

To learn more about working at Socure visit our career page here: https://www.socure.com/company/careers

Founded in 2012, Socure is the leader in high-assurance digital identity verification technology. Named to Forbes’ 2019 AI 50 list as one of America’s most promising AI companies, and a recent winner of API World’s Best Data API, Socure’s technology applies artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques with trusted online/offline data intelligence from email, address, phone, IP, social media and the broader Internet to verify identities in real-time. Customers include three of the top five U.S. banks, seven of the top 10 U.S. card issuers, as well as the majority of leading digital banks, lenders and insurers across the U.S. We are funded by some of the world's best investors and entrepreneurs including Scale, Commerce, Work-Bench, Citi Ventures, Wells, Synchrony, MVB Bank, Santander InnoVentures and Two Sigma.

In our mission to become the single, trusted source of identity verification and eliminate identity fraud from the internet, building a high performing engineering organization is critical, and being able to maintain extremely high availability is fundamental to our success. Socure is looking to hire a talented engineering leader with experience productizing machine learning models at scale. While Socure diversifies its product suite, continuing to invest in our flagship Fraud products to reach 100% accuracy is key to accomplishing our mission. This is where you come in!

You will report directly to the Business Line Lead of Fraud & Risk and will be expected to work closely with other technical teams, and platform teams as well as product management team, using your authority to influence changes. This is a key strategic leadership position, with engineering accountability for our entire suite of Fraud products.

What You’ll Do:

• Build partnerships with onshore and offshore teams for all relevant projects
• Work closely with the product leaders to understand their goals and challenges, use this to help define the short and long term roadmap for your team as well as establish a budget to deliver on the objectives
• Provide strategic leadership and direction to your team
• Assist and direct the design and implementation of all Fraud products
• Help define and advance engineering best practices at the company, as well as Build and Deployment processes
• Help define and maintain the highest quality of code through reusable libraries and frameworks, while minimizing accrual of technical debt
• Provide visibility on development progress and ensure on-time delivery

What You’ll Bring:

• 10+ years of software development experience including
• 5+ years of technical leadership / management experience
• Experience building SaaS products at scale in a regulated environment
• Excellence in leading and growing teams, and driving strong engineering culture.
• Experience working on micro-service platform
• Extreme aptitude to automate operational workloads.
• Experience working with time series database to power machine learning products at scale
• Experience building and operating machine learning algorithms at scale, delivered through API
• Ability to develop operational knowledge to use any new technology or language as needed for the job
• A strong understanding of SDLC tools and processes, including source control, release control, change control, and automated build solutions
• Comfortable providing recommendations and identifying risks and mitigation plans
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate and facilitate multiple projects at a time, including proven ability to use resources effectively and efficiently
• A customer-first mindset and ability to communicate complex technical concepts with individuals across varying levels and functions of the organization
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges, while building and conveying compelling value propositions
• Comfortable working within Agile methodologies in a cross-functional, collaborative team environment
• Excellent communication, organization, and documentation skills

Perks & Benefits:

• Competitive base salary
• Equity - every employee is a stakeholder in our upside
• Medical, dental and vision benefits for employees and their dependents
• Parental leave and fertility support
• Flexible PTO
• 401K with company match
• Stipend to supply your home office
• Annual professional development stipend

A Message on COVID-19:

Socure's number one priority is to safeguard the health and well-being of our team members, our families and our communities. During this unprecedented time, we are closely monitoring COVID-19 developments and updating our response plan quarterly. We are regularly soliciting feedback from our employees to help inform our return-to-office strategy. For our team members who loved going into the office, we are looking forward to meeting once again! But until then, we are striving to ensure that Socureans have the resources and support they need to excel from home. This includes a work-from-home stipend so you can build your home office and fun, virtual events so you can continue to feel connected to your coworkers.