
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
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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.”
About Us
Unit21 is on a mission to combat financial crime by enabling investigators to combat the ever-changing landscape of fraud, scams and money laundering. We’ve created a platform that is data-schema agnostic, fully customizable, and performant. We believe that by providing the most flexible, efficient, and cutting-edge tooling, we can make a difference in the fight against crime.
About the role
We are looking for a strong technical lead to help grow our Singapore engineering team. This role is primarily expected to be a strong independent contributor while also collaborating closely with product teams and providing technical direction. Our Singapore team allows us to push product initiatives forward during non US hours without distraction. We are looking for an experienced cornerstone to build the team around. One that can translate product vision into scalable features.
What you will be doing
● Focusing primarily on high output software development leveraging state of the art GenAI codegen practices
● Taking on technical leadership of projects from ideation to deployment and release
● Collaborating closely with product managers to determine what is technically feasible to unlock seamless user experience
● Reviewing pull requests, internal and external to team, to provide helpful feedback for stability and mentorship
● Innovating on creative technical solutions to difficult analog problems
What we're looking for
● 5+ years of experience in Python/Go/Rust (or other Object-Oriented Language).
● 3+ years of experience with React
● 3+ years of experience working with Data Warehouses such as Snowflake, Databricks or Redshift
● Experience in building and managing distributed systems.
● Experience with AWS and Terraform (or equivalent)
● Experience in developing and optimizing end-to-end APIs, data-flows, SQL queries and infrastructure for consumer or enterprise products.
● Experience with event driven architecture and relevant technologies (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc)
● Advanced knowledge of software engineering principles including software design, source control management, build processes, automated deployments, code reviews, testing methods.
● Hustle, curiosity, humility
Bonus Points!
● Experience managing large-scale critical production systems with minimum SLAs of 4 9's
● Experience with Apache Spark
Compensation
The standard base pay range for this role is 14,000 - 16,000 SGD Monthly.
What we can offer you
Competitive salary and pre-IPO stock options
Unlimited paid time off
Generous leave programs for life events
Annual Learning & Development stipend
One-time Home office set-up stipend
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.