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.

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

Must-Have What We're Looking For

• 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