
Unit21 helps protect businesses against adversaries through a simple API and dashboard for detecting and managing money laundering, fraud, and other sophisticated risks across multiple industries.

Unit21 helps protect businesses against adversaries through a simple API and dashboard for detecting and managing money laundering, fraud, and other sophisticated risks across multiple industries.
Founded: 2018
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Core product: No-code platform for fraud, AML, sanctions screening, and case management
Total funding (reported): USD 47,000,000
Notable lead investor: Tiger Global Management
Fraud prevention, anti-money laundering (AML), sanctions/payment screening, and investigations/case management for financial services and fintechs.
2018
Software Development
USD 34,000,000
Reported post-money valuation at time of Series B: approximately USD 300 million.
USD 13,000,000
Raised roughly nine months before the Series B.
“Institutional venture investors including Tiger Global Management, ICONIQ Capital, Gradient Ventures, A.Capital, and South Park Commons; also notable individual/angel backers.”
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About Unit 21:
Unit21 protects businesses against adversaries engaging in money laundering, fraud, and other sophisticated risks by offering a no-code toolset to model, detect, and remediate suspicious activity. We are backed by investments from Google, Tiger Global, ICONIQ, Diane Greene (Google / Google Cloud), Jack Dorsey (Block / Twitter), William Hockey (Plaid), among others.
About the role
As a Senior Application Security Engineer, you will be a hands-on builder responsible for protecting our platform, our customers, and their data. This is not a governance role; you will spend your time in the code, designing and implementing the systems that secure our products from the ground up. You will own critical security infrastructure, build automations to eliminate entire classes of vulnerabilities, and serve as a deep technical expert for our engineering organization. This role is for an engineer who is passionate about security and wants to solve complex security problems at scale through high-quality, maintainable code.
What you'll be doing:
What we're looking for:
Experience:
Programming & Scripting:
Security Expertise:
Cloud & Infrastructure:
Compensation:
The standard base pay range for this role is $155,00.00 - $175,000.00 Annually. This base pay range does not include variable compensation including potential commissions, bonuses or other financial or equity incentives.
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Unit21 is an equal opportunity employer, we encourage all to apply, even if you do not meet each requirement above. We are building a diverse, inclusive workforce and hope you will join us!
What we can offer you:
About Unit21
Unit21 stops bad actors by leveraging data to deliver justice and safety in the world. We protect businesses against adversaries engaging in money laundering, fraud, and other sophisticated risks by offering no-code infrastructure to model, detect, and remediate suspicious activity. Our customers range from large Fortune 500 companies to high-potential, pre-launch startups. We have reported over USD $2 billion in fraud and laundered money to the US government using our software.
We are a rapidly growing Series C startup, having raised close to $100m from Google, Tiger Global, ICONIQ Capital, Jack Dorsey, Diane Greene, and other leading VCs. Our team believes deeply in fostering individual ownership, iterative product development, and empathetic communication. There are many challenging problems to solve in this industry, and a huge opportunity for our software to empower companies to define a new standard of eliminating bad behavior on their platforms.
We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply. Unit21 is committed to creating an inclusive culture, and we celebrate diversity of all kinds.