Fraud Lead & Scam Hunter — Real-Time Risk Defense

ether.fi; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and token grant

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Travel across our three offices

4 weeks work-from-anywhere

Job summary

ether.fi is seeking a Fraud Lead in Dubai to own the full fraud stack for campaigns and the card program, collaborating closely with Engineering, CX and compliance teams. You will contribute to real-time monitoring, risk scoring, and automated mitigation in a fast-moving crypto environment.

You’ll hunt emerging threats, develop rules and signals, and build internal tools to scale fraud defense as the business evolves. Programming curiosity welcomed, even if you aren’t an expert coder.

Qualifications

• Genuine excitement about patterns, scams, and outsmarting attackers.
• Exceptional ability to find signals in noisy transaction and behavioral data.
• High ownership, low-ego, and ability to drive results in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Own real-time fraud monitoring, alerting, and automated mitigation systems.
• Hunt emerging threats: cashback farming, card testing, merchant abuse, friendly fraud, money laundering and malicious behavior.
• Develop and tune advanced fraud rules, behavioral signals, and scoring logic.
• Work on internal tools, dashboards, and scripts to boost team effectiveness.
• Define fraud strategy and scalable operational playbooks.
• Active communication with cross-teams and external partners to mitigate fraud risks.

Skills

Fraud monitoring

Threat hunting

Rules & scoring

Cross-team collaboration

AI tooling

Willingness to code

Job description

ether.fi is seeking a Fraud Lead in Dubai to own the full fraud stack for campaigns and the card program, collaborating closely with Engineering, CX and compliance teams. You will contribute to real-time monitoring, risk scoring, and automated mitigation in a fast-moving crypto environment.

You’ll hunt emerging threats, develop rules and signals, and build internal tools to scale fraud defense as the business evolves. Programming curiosity welcomed, even if you aren’t an expert coder.