Golang Backend Engineer, Financial Product Fraud

About the role

This role involves building and maintaining high-throughput, low-latency backend services to protect financial products from fraud. You will design real-time detection and automated enforcement systems for payouts, lending, and banking products across the DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo brands. As a founding member of this team, you will help establish the infrastructure patterns for future financial products.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain high-throughput, low-latency backend services in Go to score financial events in real time.
• Design end-to-end fraud detection and automated enforcement for financial products.
• Extend a shared fraud decisioning platform to support multiple brands.
• Partner with risk analysts, data scientists, and product managers to translate fraud patterns into detection logic.
• Collaborate across team boundaries with account security and payments teams.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and establish the fraud infrastructure baseline.
• Write well-tested, observable code and participate in on-call rotations.

Required skills

• Golang
• Backend services
• Distributed systems
• SQL
• NoSQL
• Event-driven architectures
• Kafka

Nice to have

• Fraud detection
• Risk management
• Payments
• Lending
• Rules engines
• ML model serving
• Kotlin
• Java
• Python
• Node.js

Qualifications

• 3 to 6 years of professional software engineering experience
• 1+ years of production experience in Golang or strong experience in another backend language

About the Company

Deliveroo is now part of DoorDash, operating as a global team with reach across multiple brands including DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo.