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Forter Tech Stack

AI-powered identity and fraud assessment for high-volume digital commerce

Software Development New York, New York 501–1,000 employees Founded 2013 Privately Held

Forter processes identity and fraud decisions across digital commerce at scale, using Python, Java, and Apache Spark on AWS + Kubernetes infrastructure. The tech stack shows a mature streaming and ML backbone (Flink, Spark, Cassandra, Aerospike) now being modernized—they're adopting observability tools (Mimir, Grafana, Honeycomb, Loki) and RAG, while phasing out Elasticsearch. The hiring mix skews senior (30 of 69 roles) with engineering-heavy demand, signaling both complexity in production decisioning logic and a shift from pure fraud detection toward broader commerce optimization.

Tech Stack 77 technologies

Core StackSalesforce JavaScript Salesloft Python Java Kotlin Node.js AWS Kubernetes Docker Apache Flink MATLAB Apache Spark TypeScript GraphQL Shopify Magento MySQL PostgreSQL MariaDB Cassandra Outreach LinkedIn Sales Navigator SQL API Gateway Storm R Salesforce Commerce Cloud Commercetools Aerospike+41 more
AdoptingRAG Kubernetes Grafana Loki Mimir Honeycomb
ReplacingElasticsearch

What Forter Is Building

Challenges

  • Escalations and incidents
  • Improving response times
  • Fast onboarding of merchants
  • Fraud detection in e-commerce
  • Transitioning from fraud prevention to e-commerce optimisation
  • Emerging global threats
  • Scaling self-service analytics
  • High-scale low-latency components
  • Improving architecture for faster onboarding
  • Expanding payments optimisation

Active Projects

  • Resilient infrastructure
  • Self-service analytics & ml platform
  • Maintaining merchant business rules
  • Platform extensions for merchant onboarding
  • Policy builder customer education
  • Payment products
  • Implement ai guardrails and evaluation frameworks
  • Build infrastructure for autonomous and interactive agents
  • Live production decisioning logic improvement
  • Account-based marketing strategy

Hiring Activity

Steady70 roles · 25 in 30d

Department

Engineering
23
Sales
12
Support
8
Marketing
6
Data
4
Product
4
Consulting
3
Customer-Success
2

Seniority

Senior
30
Mid
13
Manager
7
Junior
4
Staff
4
Principal
3
Director
2
C-Level
1

Notable leadership hires: Director of Engineering, Strategic Alliances Director

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About Forter

Forter builds identity intelligence and fraud assessment for digital commerce platforms. The product sits in the payment and checkout flow, making real-time trust decisions to reduce fraud while preserving revenue for merchants. The company operates at high transaction volume and complexity: projects include resilient infrastructure, self-service analytics, merchant onboarding acceleration, payment products, and autonomous agent frameworks. Teams span engineering, sales, support, and customer success across nine countries including the US, UK, Singapore, Japan, Israel, and Canada.

HeadquartersNew York, New York
Company Size501–1,000 employees
Founded2013
Hiring MarketsSingapore, United Kingdom, Japan, China, United States, Israel, Canada, Peru

Frequently Asked Questions

What tech stack does Forter use?

Python, Java, Kotlin, Node.js, TypeScript, SQL on AWS with Kubernetes and Docker; Apache Flink, Spark, Storm for streaming; PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, Aerospike for data; Salesforce for CRM; GraphQL for APIs.

Where is Forter hiring?

Forter has active hiring in nine countries: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore, Japan, China, Israel, Canada, Germany, and Peru.

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