Software Engineer II

What You'll Do Build & Own Features End-to-End - 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 Drive Technical Excellence - 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 Collaborate - 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 What We're Looking For Must-Have: - 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) Nice-to-Have: - 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 Success in This Role Looks Like - 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. Why AiPrise - 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