Backend Software Engineer, Trust & Safety

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Backend Software Engineer, Trust & Safety in Others

Higgsfield
Full time
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10/17/2026
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Almaty, Kazakhstan

Responsibilities

Integrate ML scores and risk signals into account creation, credit, payment, and generation flows with reliable timeout and fallback behavior.
Build configurable enforcement services for rules, rate limits, account restrictions, and credit or payment controls.
Develop APIs and workflows for case review, decision-history inspection, and applying or reversing restrictions.
Design for retries, duplicate events, concurrent requests, safe rollouts, monitoring, and auditability.
Work across other teams’ codebases and collaborate with ML, analytics, and operations to scope, ship, and verify backend protections.

Requirements

Demonstrated experience taking an ambiguous problem to a production system and explaining personal decisions, contributions, and results.
Ability to build reliable backend services involving APIs, data models, queues, transactions, idempotency, concurrency, external-service integrations, and lifecycle debugging.
Ability to independently choose next steps, remove blockers, reduce scope to test ideas, adapt to evidence, and persist through difficult problems.
Ability to translate risk requirements into backend behavior with ML, analytics, and operations teams and use operator and customer feedback to improve controls.
Ability to accept feedback, share knowledge, and build systems that teammates can operate and extend.
Preferred experience includes fraud prevention, payments risk, platform abuse, risk-scoring integrations, rules engines, rate limiters, case management, appeals, or risk operations tooling.
Familiarity with Stripe and experience with real-time scoring or graph-based account linkage systems are preferred.
Python or Go experience is preferred.

Benefits

Competitive base salary in USD and equity.
Relocation support.
Ownership of protections that preserve company revenue and customer trust.
Based in Almaty, Kazakhstan, with recruiter, technical, product-fit, and offer interview stages.

Salary: Competitive

Higgsfield

Higgsfield is the ultimate production studio for creators by creators. 40% of our team are filmmakers, producers, and creatives who shape our product roadmap, working side by side with our ML engineers in a relentless creative feedback loop. We're on a mission to give everyone with a vision the t...

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