Software Engineer II (Backend Java)

Russell Tobin; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

401(k) retirement savings

Employee discounts

Job summary

Russell Tobin is seeking a Software Engineer II (Backend Java) in New York. The role focuses on building and maintaining fraud rules within real‑time decisioning engines to protect customers from account takeover.

You will contribute to backend services, APIs, and integrations, while leveraging AI coding tools to accelerate development and ensure quality. The position requires strong Java skills, RESTful API design, and experience with Spring MVC or similar frameworks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT or engineering.
• 2+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Java and RESTful API design.

Responsibilities

• Author, maintain, and optimize fraud rules and policies across real-time fraud decisioning engines.
• Contribute to backend services in the fraud-prevention stack, designing features, APIs, and integrations.
• Use AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) to accelerate rule authoring and service development with human review.
• Translate policy and analytics requirements into precise, testable rule logic and tuning.
• Test changes end-to-end before release using pre-release testing and deployment tooling.

Skills

Java

Backend development

RESTful APIs

AI code tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/Engineering

Tools

Spring MVC

SQL/NoSQL databases

Job description

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.

PrideGlobal and its affiliates offer eligible employees comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, pet insurance and employee discounts with preferred vendors.

Equal Employment Opportunity

PrideGlobal and its affiliates are 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

PrideGlobal and its affiliates are 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.

Only applicable for Kentucky positions

For this type of employment, state law requires a criminal record check as a condition of employment. This applies to direct care staff (Examples: RN, LPN, Nurse Aides, Therapists) referred to Kentucky nursing facilities, assisted living communities, or long-term care facilities, in accordance with KRS 216.793.