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Software Engineer II (Backend Java)

Russell, Tobin & AssociatesNew York, NY🇺🇸United StatesPosted 24 Aug 2026

Quick Overview

Salary
$65 - $68/hr
Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
New York, NY, United States
Posted
22 hours ago
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Job Description

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Title: Software Engineer II (Backend Java)
Location: New York NY-10003
Pay rate: $65.00 - 68/hour DOE
Duration:  12+Months (Possibility of extension)
 
Duties:
  • Author, maintain, and optimize fraud rules and policies across our real-time fraud decisioning engines to protect customers from account takeover (ATO) and other fraud- this is the core of the role.
  • Contribute significantly to the backend services in the fraud-prevention stack: design and implement features, API changes, and integrations; make production code changes; and help improve their reliability, performance, and quality — not just their rules.
  • Use AI coding tools as a core part of your workflow (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) to accelerate both rule authoring and service development — generating, refactoring, and validating rule sets, tests, and service code, always with human review and testing.
  • Translate policy and analytics requirements into precise, testable rule logic — tuning thresholds, fraud signals, and link-analysis weights to raise fraud-catch precision while reducing friction for legitimate customers.
  • Test changes end-to-end before release using pre-release testing and artifact-deployment tooling and manage safe production rollouts — including silent/shadow-mode validation and change-request approvals.
  • Contribute to engineering quality across the stack: design docs, code reviews, automated tests, CI/CD, and observability.
  • Support monitoring, on-call, and rapid issue resolution in production, using observability dashboards to track service health, rule performance, latency, and match rates.
  • Collaborate closely with Policy, Analytics, Data Science, and Product partners to respond to emerging fraud attacks and continuously improve detection coverage.
 
Preferred Qualifications:
  • 2+ years of professional software engineering experience building and contributing to backend services (SWE2 level).
  • Proficiency in a server-side language, especially Java (our primary stack); Python or Node.js also valuable.
  • Solid experience with RESTful API design and building/maintaining API integrations.
  • Experience with database technologies (relational and/or NoSQL).
  • Experience with a server framework such as Spring MVC (preferred), Express, or Django.
  • Hands-on experience contributing to a production service — production-quality code and tests, deployment, and on-call.
  • Proficiency with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, etc.) and the judgment to use them effectively while validating their output.
 
Education Required
Bachelor’s degree in an IT-related or Engineering field.
 
Education Preferred
Bachelor’s degree in an IT-related or Engineering field.
 
Additional Information
Work is expected to be done on hybrid onsite schedule.
 
Russell Tobin offers eligible employees comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), a 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, identity theft protection, legal support, auto and home insurance, pet insurance, and employee discounts with some preferred vendors.
 
Equal Employment Opportunity
Russell Tobin is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of the race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, reproductive health decision making, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
 
Fair Chance Employment
Russell Tobin is a Fair Chance employer. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable state and local Fair Chance laws and ordinances, including, the California Fair Chance Act and all applicable local Fair Chance ordinances.
 
Accommodations
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, or to perform the essential functions of this role, please contact us. 
 
Only applicable for San Francisco Candidates: Under the San Francisco Lactation in the Workplace Ordinance, we will provide written notice of lactation accommodation rights, and this notice will automatically be given upon hiring, any inquiry of parental leave or lactation accommodation.


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