Staff Software Engineer, Financial Crimes
Set technical direction for a financial crimes compliance control plane supporting real-time screening, transaction monitoring, auditability, resilience, and vendor integrations. Own architecture, solve distributed-systems challenges, translate regulatory obligations into engineering plans, and mentor engineers.
Responsibilities
- Set architectural direction for the compliance control plane
- Design real-time screening orchestration
- Drive multi-vendor failover and sub-second decisioning
- Design regulator-grade auditability
- Translate regulatory obligations into engineering primitives
- Create and sequence technical roadmaps
- Anticipate platform risks and scaling constraints
- Align cross-functional objectives with senior leaders
- Set production ownership standards
- Lead observability, alerting, and incident response initiatives
- Mentor engineers
Requirements
- 8+ years of production backend systems experience
- Deep expertise in Java or comparable JVM languages
- Go or Rust experience
- Architecture experience with complex distributed systems
- Technical direction experience across teams
- Resilience and distributed-systems design expertise
- Failover knowledge
- Graceful degradation knowledge
- Idempotency knowledge
- High-throughput real-time decisioning experience
- REST and gRPC API design experience
- Kubernetes knowledge
- Observability tooling knowledge
- AWS knowledge
- FinTech, payments, identity, or compliance technology experience
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- Flexible in-office schedule
- Health care coverage
- Retirement benefits
- Family-forming benefits
- Family support benefits
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- Wellness reimbursement
- Vacation policy
- Parental leave
- Family planning benefits
- Catered lunches
- Stocked kitchens
- Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity