Golang Backend Engineer, Financial Product Fraud

About the Position

We are looking for a Golang Backend Engineer to join our new Financial Product Fraud team. This role is pivotal in ensuring that every payout and transaction is secure and reaches the right person. As part of Deliveroo, now part of DoorDash, you will be part of a global team with a mission to protect financial products and services.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain high-throughput, low-latency backend services in Go for real-time scoring of financial events.
• Design and implement fraud detection and automated enforcement for our financial products.
• Extend our shared fraud decisioning platform to work across all brands.
• Collaborate with risk analysts, data scientists, and product managers to implement fraud detection.
• Work closely with account security, payments fraud, and financial product teams.
• Contribute to architectural discussions and technical decisions for establishing the fraud infrastructure baseline.
• Write well-tested, observable code to maintain high quality standards.

Requirements

• 3 to 6 years of professional software engineering experience, including backend services in production.
• 1+ years of production experience in Golang, or strong experience in another backend language with enthusiasm to learn Go quickly.
• Working understanding of low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with SQL and/or NoSQL databases, and some exposure to event-driven architectures.
• Willingness to operate what you build, including a share of on-call.
• Uses AI tooling in day-to-day development and can critically evaluate its output.

Nice to Have

• Experience in fraud, risk, payments, lending, or financial crime.
• Experience with rules engines, real-time feature stores, or ML model serving.
• Background in Kotlin, Java, Python, or Node.js alongside Go.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP).
• Experience working across multiple brands, regions, or regulatory regimes.

We Offer

• Opportunity to work in a fast-paced, innovative environment.
• Be part of a global team with a mission to protect financial products and services.
• Competitive compensation package.
• Professional growth and development opportunities.

About the Company

Deliveroo is now part of DoorDash, bringing together teams with even greater reach, scale, and ambition. Depending on your role, you may collaborate with teammates, systems, and leaders across DoorDash and Wolt. Together, we’re unlocking new possibilities as one global team.

At Deliveroo, we are committed to fostering an environment where everyone can do their best work and feel they belong. We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion, or belief.

If you’re excited about making a real impact in a fast-moving marketplace and growing your career alongside ambitious, supportive teams, we’d love to hear from you!