Risk & Fraud Systems Analyst - Hands-on, Data-Driven

Paddle; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Unlimited holidays

Parental leave

Private healthcare

Well-being initiatives

Job summary

Paddle is seeking a hands-on risk/data role to build and tune merchant/seller risk detection. You will explore data with SQL, Snowflake, and dbt, design rules and controls, and drive measurable reductions in fraud losses while balancing customer experience.

In this role you will own the risk lifecycle from data to production, collaborate with finance, product, and engineering, and establish durable ownership for core capabilities as you scale across markets.

Qualifications

• Experience building or improving merchant/seller-side fraud detection in payments environments.
• Strong hands-on analytics using SQL, Python and statistics to test hypotheses and prove results.
• Familiarity with decision-flow systems and risk scoring.
• Ability to translate complex risk problems into measurable product/engineering work.

Responsibilities

• Map the end-to-end seller risk system, data, decisions, controls and owners.
• Backtest rules and risk scores on time-stamped data with measurable outcomes.
• Own live risk controls: establish owners, volumes, yields, alerts, tests and impact assessments.
• Build and maintain a fraud case library and taxonomy for model development.
• Partner with investigators, product, engineering and data science to drive measurable risk reductions.

Skills

SQL

Python

Statistics

Fraud detection

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Job description

Paddle is seeking a hands-on risk/data role to build and tune merchant/seller risk detection. You will explore data with SQL, Snowflake, and dbt, design rules and controls, and drive measurable reductions in fraud losses while balancing customer experience.

In this role you will own the risk lifecycle from data to production, collaborate with finance, product, and engineering, and establish durable ownership for core capabilities as you scale across markets.