Security Network Engineer - Antibot

About Flinks 🚀

Flinks drives and empowers financial innovation by pushing the limits of what's possible

As one of the trailblazers and advocates for open finance in Canada, Flinks has rapidly grown from its founding in 2016 to become a leader in financial data aggregation, data enrichment, and open banking.

Trusted by millions of individuals accessing financial services at world-class companies and serving innovators in lending, fintech, digital banking, asset management and insurance, Flinks is continually setting new benchmarks for the future of financial innovation. We’re dedicated to continuing to provide our clients with the tools they need to stay ahead of the competition and drive innovation forward. That’s where you come in.

About The Team 🤖

The IT Operations team is critical to the success of Flinks. They are responsible for ensuring that our products are delivered reliably and efficiently to our customers. This involves managing the underlying infrastructure, overseeing the deployment and maintenance of our products. This team is made up of highly talented and self-driven individuals who consistently embrace difficult challenges and actively seek out opportunities to push the boundaries of what is possible.

What You'll Be Doing 🔥

• Build, operate and maintain our large scale data aggregation network of systems
• Scaling our network capabilities to support growth and daily challenges
• Extracting desired data from websites while adhering to applicable laws and regulations.
• Analyzing anti-scraping measures, devising strategies to bypass them, as well as developing and implementing scraping tools and techniques.
• Investigating performance data to suggest and implement routing or topology improvements

Who You Are 💪

• WAF, anti-bot and anti-fraud systems are roadblocks you can deal with (Akamai BMP, F5 Shape, ThreatMatrix, etc.)
• Web scraping is how you read the internet (selenium, scrapy, beautiful soup)
• Knowledge of software development (you can build and maintain low-level tools)

Great to haves

• Data collecting and analysis
• Master network topologies and technologies (BGP routing, HTTP/SOCKS proxy,)
• C# and golang
• Large scale cloud experience (GCP, Microsoft Azure, AWS)

The Interview Process 🏗

• Technical Challenge
• VP of IT Ops & Security
• Infrastructure Team Lead
• Talent Acquisition Lead

Sound like a place you’d like to work? Remember, everyone brings their own unique background and skillset to the table, so don't let a lack of meeting every requirement hold you back from applying for this role.

If we’ve piqued your curiosity, you can also check out our Constitution Act to find out more about Flinks’ origins, values and culture.