Backend Engineer
€50,000 – €75,000 / yr base salary
Posted 7 Jul 2026
Advertised as “Senior Backend Engineer - Connect Team ”
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- Expected experience
- 5+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Hybrid
| Base salary | €50,000 – €75,000 / yr |
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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 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 Connect Team enables seamless integrations between external vendor ecosystems and Riskified’s comprehensive product portfolio - including Chargeback Guarantee, Dispute Resolve, and Policy Engine.
We build high-performance connectors, apps, and APIs that bridge third-party services (Payment Gateways, Return Vendors, eCommerce Platforms, and CRMs) directly into our platform. By extending our platformic integration layers and introducing cutting-edge AI and agentic solutions, our team drastically simplifies merchant onboarding and accelerates integration velocity across thousands of global eCommerce merchants.
This role requires strong technical execution paired with a deep understanding of our business domain to deliver frictionless, highly reliable onboarding experiences.
What You'll Be Doing
- Build Integration Infrastructure: Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable APIs, connectors, and integration layers connecting third-party platforms to Riskified's product suite.
- Drive AI & Automation: Introduce and implement AI and agentic solutions into product onboarding flows to maximize speed, accuracy, and automation for merchants.
- Embrace Modern Workflows: Actively utilize agentic coding tools and AI-assisted workflows to boost team development velocity and code quality.
- Bridge Tech & Business: Partner with Product, Design, and Domain experts to translate complex risk, dispute, and policy business logic into elegant software architecture.
- Ship to Production Daily: Maintain modern CI/CD pipelines, deploying high-quality code daily and taking strong end-to-end ownership of service reliability and performance.