engineering
Posted Feb 25Software Engineer II (USA)
at AiPrise
San Jose, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements
- We're now building AI-powered compliance agents to revolutionize KYB, AML, sanctions screening, and risk scoring — enabling our customers to onboard faster, reduce manual reviews, and prevent financial crime.
- ROLE OVERVIEW We’re hiring a Software Engineer II to help build and scale the core platform behind AiPrise’s compliance orchestration and AI agent systems.
- 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
- 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.
Benefits
- 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
Additional details
- We integrate with 80+ identity and compliance vendors to deliver a holistic view of risk.
- You’ll take features end to end, from design to code to deploy to iterate, across our case management product, vendor integrations, orchestration APIs, and customer facing tools.
- You’ll be in the trenches with founders and a fast moving team, turning messy real world compliance problems into clean, reliable systems.
- This is an in-person role based in our San Jose, CA office (5 days/week).
- You'll work directly with our product, and engineering teams to deliver high-quality features that help global fintechs fight financial crime.
- As an SDE2, you'll mentor junior engineers and help establish engineering best practices.
- 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: -
- You've reduced manual review time for customers and helped scale the platform to handle 2-3 enterprise clients.
- ABOUT AIPRISE AiPrise is a global compliance orchestration platform helping fintechs, marketplaces, and payment companies verify and onboard customers worldwide.