Backend Engineering Lead (Go; Compliance)
KAST is seeking a hands-on Engineering Lead to build and scale backend systems for compliance and risk products, including KYC/KYB, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, operational tooling, and internal risk infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of backend systems powering compliance and risk products
- Build scalable services and APIs primarily using Go
- Own technical architecture for compliance-related systems including onboarding, monitoring, restrictions, and internal tooling
- Partner with Compliance, Risk, AML Ops, and Product teams to translate regulatory requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Design reliable, auditable, and secure systems with strong observability and operational workflows
- Improve automation and operational efficiency across compliance processes
- Mentor engineers and establish strong engineering standards and backend best practices
- Participate in hiring and help scale the engineering team
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience
- Strong backend engineering expertise, particularly with Go
- Experience building production-grade APIs and distributed systems
- Strong understanding of system reliability, security, and auditability
- Comfortable working cross-functionally with compliance and operational stakeholders
- Startup mindset with strong ownership and execution ability
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and modern engineering workflows
- Experience with compliance, fintech, payments, fraud, identity, or risk-related products
- Familiarity with KYC/KYB, AML, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, or operational tooling
- Experience in crypto, stablecoins, or Web3 infrastructure
- Experience building internal tooling and workflow systems
- Exposure to multi-jurisdiction compliance environments
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures and high-scale backend systems
- Experience with AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, PostgreSQL, or Redis