Job: Software engineer

About our Client:

Our client’s mission is to improve the health of the global financial system by fighting money laundering and other financial crimes.

By law, financial institutions must monitor transactions for illicit activity. However, most institutions find it difficult to do so effectively. Roughly $6T is laundered every year and $180B is spent on anti-money-laundering efforts by US institutions. Despite this, less than 1% of laundered money is identified correctly. Our client is also seeing many systems produce false-positive rates of over 95%. Consequently, banks and the government must spend extra time and resources on extraneous investigations, taking away resources from finding criminals.

About the Project:

To achieve their goal, our client ingests and standardizes millions of messy data points coming from financial institutions that may sign up for the service. Once our client has standardized and ingested the data, our client can run complex calculations on it, checking for suspicious behavior and building a score around the riskiness of a given profile. If anything is found, our client can surface that to their clients. By providing information accessibility, building intuitive workflows, allowing for custom processing, and curating accurate data, our client can reduce the false-positive rate of their calculations, and reduce the amount of work dedicated to a given investigation.

About of you:

Our client is looking for an engineer who is excited about building a company from the ground up. As a software engineer, you’ll be responsible for defining and building features in their product to enable their customers to model and detect suspicious activity on their platforms. You’ll work cross-functionally, collaborating with members of the team who have expertise in the subject matter, product management, design, infrastructure and security, to solve real-world problems their customers face. You’ll have a lot of autonomy and freedom. You will learn and touch every part of the stack.

What you’ll do:

• Work with a broad range of technologies and systems to own and solve problems end-to-end.
• Work closely with engineers, designers, and product managers to build new features in their product and data platform.
• Contribute to their technical vision and uphold their high engineering standards.

What you’ll need:

• 3 years of relevant work experience.
• Track record of delivering high-quality products and features end-to-end as a tech lead.
• Ability to turn real-world problems and opportunities into engineering solutions.
• Desire to work in a highly collaborative environment, and to continuously grow and master your craft.

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Pulumi, or similar technologies.
• Knowledge of SQL and experience with Postgres.
• Experience with Flink, Iceberg, or similar technologies.
• Experience working in a large Java codebase.
• Experience with Python.
• Experience with Typescript, Next.js, React, and MUI.
• Experience using AI-based development tools like Cursor, etc.