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Antifraud & Detection Engineer

EXANTE

Armenia, Georgia, Serbia Full-time

Who we are

We are a global wealth-tech company powering the next generation of trading. We deliver cutting-edge centralised trading solutions and robust B2B financial infrastructure. Our proprietary trading platform offers clients seamless access to stocks, ETFs, bonds, futures, options, swaps, funds, and currency pairs- all within a single, multi-currency account.

We believe in the boundless flow of capital and information. Whilst developing EXANTE, we saw technology as a means to improve global connectivity of the financial services industry. Over the years, we have earned a reputation for providing superior service and for getting the results our clients and customers want.

Most importantly, people have come to know us for our technological insights and focus on privacy. Our inspiration stems from the talent and ambition of our clients. We are offering an ecosystem of financial products and services that would provide the most tailored assistance to traders.

Our culture

Everything at EXANTE starts with our people. We bring together 600+ minds from 65 nationalities across 70 locations. We place trust in our team with real autonomy - the freedom to drive change across products, processes and everything in between. That trust fuels innovation, and the demands of the markets build resilience; we adapt, push forward, and we look after each other while we do it.

That freedom is matched by real investment in growth: we back our people with ongoing learning, hands-on development and the kind of stretch opportunities that turn good careers into great ones. Here, progression isn’t something you wait for - it’s something you’re actively supported to pursue.

About The Role

We are looking for a senior hands-on specialist to design, implement, and operationalize fraud detection, fraud prevention, and investigation capabilities across our brokerage and digital asset environment.

You will work across client authentication, session security, trading activity, back-office operations, crypto treasury/custody workflows, and privileged internal actions. The role requires someone who can independently move from problem discovery to telemetry design, detection logic, workflow automation, preventive controls, and investigation playbooks

Reporting Line - Chief Information Security Officer

Worksite: Remote/ Hybrid/ On-site (options vary by location)

Responsibilities:

  • Design, implement, and tune fraud detection controls across authentication, trading, crypto, and admin workflows (e.g., account takeover, session abuse, high-risk account changes), and deploy preventive measures like step-up authentication, velocity checks, and risk-based friction.
  • Conduct end-to-end investigations using logs, SIEM, and data warehouse tools to reconstruct incident timelines, document findings for compliance/legal/regulatory review, and convert recurring patterns into playbooks and engineering requirements
  • Define telemetry requirements, identify gaps in audit logging and event schemas, and partner with engineering teams to ensure fraud-relevant data is accurately captured and correlated
  • Write advanced SQL/analytical pipelines, build fraud detection models and scoring systems, and monitor precision, recall, and model drift to ensure ongoing effectiveness and explainability
  • Analyze trading platform workflows for exploitable weaknesses, detect abuse patterns (e.g., restriction bypass, coordinated activity), and collaborate on remediation designs
  • Review and strengthen controls around crypto treasury/custody operations, detect wallet and approval workflow abuse, and support governance and transaction authorization processes
  • Build alerting/triage workflows, define severity and routing criteria, maintain KRIs and dashboards, and drive post-incident improvements to strengthen controls and telemetry

Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of experience in antifraud, fraud detection, security investigations, abuse prevention, or adjacent roles in fintech, brokerage, payments, crypto, or other high-risk online environments
  • Strong understanding of authentication, session management, access control, MFA, and common account takeover techniques
  • Experience investigating fraud or security incidents using multiple data sources, including logs, transactional data, and audit trails
  • Ability to detect and analyze fraud patterns such as account compromise, suspicious sessions, insider misuse, social engineering fallout, and business logic abuse
  • Strong SQL and data analysis skills; ability to work with large datasets and identify anomalies, patterns, and linked entities
  • Experience with SIEM, log management, or similar analytical platforms
  • Hands-on experience building or tuning fraud detection rules, risk scoring, alerting logic, or investigation workflows
  • Experience with statistical methods or machine learning for fraud/anomaly detection
  • Strong scripting/automation skills for data analysis, integrations, and prototyping
  • Ability to work independently and deliver practical controls end-to-end, from analysis to implementation
  • Good understanding of financial platforms, trading lifecycle, and operational risk concepts
  • Awareness of crypto-related fraud risks, including exchange integrations, wallet operations, and approval workflows
  • Strong written communication skills and ability to document investigations clearly for technical and non-technical stakeholders

Personality / Mindset

  • Integrity & loyalty
  • Team player with advanced communication and collaboration skills
  • A hands-on, can-do attitude - always looking for solutions and thinking out of the box
  • Overachiever mentality
  • The capability to work and succeed in the fast pace and ever-changing environment

We offer*

  • Competitive salary & performance-based bonus programs
  • Corporate benefits (choose your preferred options)
  • Truly inspiring culture, pleasant and informal work environment
  • Ongoing education & training programs
  • Opportunity to network and connect at the Corporate Events
  • Global career opportunities

*Benefits/perks listed above may vary depending on the nature of your employment with the company and the country where you work

EXANTE is a global prime broker backed by proprietary technology and dedicated service. All regulated group companies and fully controlled affiliates and subsidiaries are committed to compliance with data protection laws, including the GDPR. We process personal data in line with the GDPR principles of fairness, purpose limitation, transparency, data minimisation, storage limitation and deletion, accuracy, confidentiality and integrity, and accountability. We rely on legitimate interests to assess and manage your application, after determining that our interests are not overridden by your rights and interests. You have the rights of access, rectification, data portability, erasure, restriction of processing, and objection to processing. To exercise your rights or contact our Data Protection Officer, please see our GDPR policy at https://exante.eu/gdpr/.

We retain recruitment data only for as long as necessary for the purposes described above, after which it will be securely deleted unless we are required to keep it longer to comply with law or you consent to a longer retention.

Where personal data is transferred outside the EEA, it will be protected to a standard at least equivalent to that sought by the GDPR. Personal data is safeguarded by technical and organisational measures that are reviewed and updated regularly. This website is not intended for individuals under 18 and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children .

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