Software Engineer I

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, deploy, monitor, and iterate on production features across backend APIs, data pipelines, integrations, case management UI, and customer-facing tools.
• Build scalable APIs and services that orchestrate identity verification, sanctions screening, document analysis, and other checks across more than 80 compliance vendors.
• Develop KYB/AML case management workflows and business logic, and create pipelines for ingesting, transforming, and routing compliance data.
• Integrate third-party identity and compliance APIs and manage complex vendor response mapping.
• Write maintainable, tested, documented code; participate in reviews and technical decisions; and contribute to engineering practices.
• Debug production issues, own incident resolution, and improve system performance, reliability, cost efficiency, monitoring, alerting, and observability.
• Collaborate with product managers, compliance experts, and customer success teams while helping shape engineering culture and workflows.

Requirements

• 0–2 years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production systems.
• Strong programming fundamentals in at least one backend language such as Python, Go, Java, or Node.js.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, microservices, or distributed systems.
• Understanding of relational databases and data modeling, including PostgreSQL or MySQL.
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and modern deployment practices.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills, comfort with unfamiliar codebases, and excellent communication skills.
• Preferred experience includes fintech, RegTech, payments, fraud or risk detection, KYC/KYB, AML, sanctions screening, adverse media, event-driven architectures, message queues, NoSQL databases, search engines, third-party API integrations, React, TypeScript, ML/AI systems, Kubernetes, Terraform, or infrastructure as code.

Benefits

• Meaningful equity upside and competitive compensation.
• Opportunity to build mission-critical software fighting financial crime and fraud for major customers.
• Work with complex datasets from more than 200 countries at a fast-moving, YC-backed startup.
• Immediate customer impact with code reaching production in days rather than months.
• In-person work with the team in San Jose.