# Staff+ Software Engineer, Financial Fraud

Hiring organization: [Menlo Ventures Portfolio](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/menlo-ventures-portfolio)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/be0d5930-1931-4c76-b877-2c318f4be91e

Listed on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Staff
- Location: New York, NY
- Salary: 320000 – 485000 USD per year

## Summary

This role leads fraud prevention engineering at Anthropic, building real-time systems to detect and block financial abuse while keeping legitimate transactions flowing. It suits senior engineers with deep payments expertise who can think like attackers and balance competing demands like fraud loss, false positives, and approval rates.

_Our summary, not Menlo Ventures Portfolio's wording._

## Skills named

Machine Learning, Python, SQL

## Required

- Proficiency in Python and SQL
- Experience building or operating fraud, risk, or abuse detection systems in production
- Ability to communicate complex technical tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders

## Nice to have

- 8+ years software engineering experience focused on payments fraud or risk
- Fluency with payment processors, card networks, and in-app purchase platforms
- Direct experience with fraud typologies like card testing, stolen-card monetization, and refund abuse
- Understanding of fraud loss accounting and chargeback risk thresholds
- Experience building hybrid rules-and-ML risk systems
- Experience at a marketplace, subscription business, or processor-side risk team

Apply on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5325909008