Software Engineer II

- Design, develop, and ship production features across our platform stack (backend APIs, data pipelines, integrations, case management UI)

- Own complete features from requirements gathering → implementation → deployment → monitoring

- Build scalable REST APIs and microservices that orchestrate checks across 80+ compliance vendors (identity verification, sanctions screening, document analysis)

- Develop case management workflows and business logic for KYB/AML compliance processes

- Create data pipelines for ingesting, transforming, and routing compliance data at scale

- Integrate with third-party identity/compliance APIs and handle complex vendor response mapping

- Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code with comprehensive documentation

- Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices

- Debug production issues with urgency; own incident resolution end-to-end

- Optimize system performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency

- Build monitoring, alerting, and observability into your features

- Work cross-functionally with product managers, compliance experts, and customer success teams

- Contribute to technical decision-making and architecture discussions

- Help shape engineering culture and development workflows as the team scales

- 2-4 years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production systems

- Strong programming fundamentals in at least one modern backend language (Python, Go, Java, Node.js, or similar)

- Experience building RESTful APIs, microservices, or distributed systems

- Solid understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and data modeling

- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred, GCP/Azure acceptable)

- Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and modern deployment practices

- Proven ability to own features end-to-end - you've taken projects from ambiguous requirements through production launch

- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills; comfortable working in unfamiliar codebases

- Excellent communication skills and ability to translate business needs into technical solutions

- Experience mentoring or supporting junior engineers (formal or informal)

- Experience in FinTech, RegTech, payments, or fraud/risk detection domains

- Knowledge of compliance workflows (KYC/KYB, AML, sanctions screening, adverse media)

- Experience with event-driven architectures and message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS)

- Familiarity with NoSQL databases (MongoDB, DynamoDB) or search engines (Elasticsearch)

- Experience integrating with third-party APIs and managing vendor relationships at scale

- Frontend development experience (React, TypeScript) for building internal tools

- Background working with ML/AI systems or data-intensive applications

- Kubernetes, Terraform, or infrastructure-as-code experience

- In 3 Months : You've shipped 2-3 significant features to production, own key platform components (e.g., vendor orchestration layer, case management API), and are actively mentoring a junior engineer through onboarding and feature development

- In 9 Months : You're a go-to expert for critical platform areas, driving technical decisions for major initiatives, leading cross-functional feature teams, and have measurably improved engineering velocity and code quality. You've reduced manual review time for customers and helped scale the platform to handle 2-3 enterprise clients.

- Build mission-critical software that directly fights financial crime and fraud for companies like Meta and leading fintechs

- Work with diverse, complex datasets from 200+ countries

- Join a fast-moving YC-backed startup where your work has immediate customer impact

- Ship quickly - your code will reach production in days, not months

- Collaborate in-person with a talented, mission-driven team in San Jose

- Competitive compensation with meaningful equity upside