Fraud Research Knowledge Engineer

TeleSign is a communications platform-as-a-service (CPaaS) company, founded on security.

Trusted by the world’s leading websites and mobile applications, our suite of easy-to-integrate APIs and SDKs uniquely combines data intelligence with messaging communications to enable businesses to more effectively engage customers, keep accounts secure and prevent fraud.

We are looking for a Fraud Research Knowledge Engineer to join our international TeleSign Engineering team. This job reports to the Knowledge Engineering Lead in Belgrade, Serbia.

Essential Functions

• Be a critical part of fraud prevention team
• Research global Telco and SMS industry data to augment and update TeleSign’s expert system
• Examine large amounts of data and do behavioral analysis to identify fraudulent activity
• Provide insights into fraud behavior and recommend reactive as well as proactive actions
• Provide customer support and research for classification and fraud reports
• Develop automated fraud prevention procedures and systems
• Get inside the fraud community and keep us on top of the latest and greatest trends
• Block fraudsters!

Requirements

• University degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Software Engineering or Mathematics (Computer Science Department)
• Fluent in English, verbal and written
• Experienced in building and running SQL queries against large databases
• Data analyst experience
• Python programming experience is a plus
• Prior experience in risk management, anti-fraud or anti-spam analyst positions is a plus
• Experience in using Tableau or similar reporting tools is a plus
• Telco or SMS industry experience is a plus
• Experience in data mining, machine learning, expert systems and automated systems is a plus
• Ability to make decisions based on both quantitative and ambiguous qualitative input
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Curious, fast learner and motivated to learn
• Strong orientation to details
• Innovative and proactive approach
• Perfectionist who likes to win
• Strong organizational and time management skills

We are offering

• Good compensation - Competitive € salary plus benefits package.
• Development opportunities.
• Challenging but also a friendly working environment.
• And much, much more...

Join our team, send your application in English language electronically.
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
All applications will be handled with absolute confidentiality.