Head of Reverse Engineering

About the role

SuperSwipe runs the draws behind the most wanted product releases on Shopify. Every drop is an arms race: resellers automate entries, rotate identities and now write their scripts with AI tools. You will lead the reverse engineering side of that fight as a hands on software engineer and the owner of our anti bot roadmap.

What you will do

• Take apart the automation that targets our entry intake and checkout flows, and turn what you learn into detection that ships.
• Study how the established anti bot solutions work in practice, where they fail, and what a modern approach looks like when the adversary can generate a new script in minutes.
• Iterating on existing proprietary fingerprinting, behavioral signals and proof of work systems that hold up at millions of entries per drop without slowing honest fans down.
• Set up the feedback loop: replay real attacks, measure catch rates and false positives, and tune with data instead of hunches.
• Write clearly about what you find so the rest of the team and our merchants understand the threat.

What we look for

• Deep familiarity with browser internals, request forensics and the tooling resellers actually use.
• Working knowledge of several commercial anti bot products and a clear view of their strengths and blind spots.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals in TypeScript or JavaScript plus one systems language.
• Comfort operating on production traffic at scale, where a mistake blocks real customers.
• An experimental mindset. You would rather run the attack yourself than read about it.

Nice to have

• Experience on either side of sneaker, ticketing or limited release automation.
• Familiarity with edge compute and streaming pipelines.
• Prior work applying machine learning to abuse detection.

What we offer

• A full time role on a small team that ships every week.
• Direct ownership of a problem that decides whether a drop is fair.
• Competitive salary, equity and remote flexibility.