Software Engineer II (USA)
Builds and owns end-to-end features for compliance orchestration platform, including backend APIs, microservices, data pipelines, and vendor integrations. Requires 2-4 years experience in backend development, cloud platforms, and databases; onsite in San Jose.
About the job
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
What We're Looking For
Must-Have
- 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
Skills
Python, Go, Java, Node.js, REST APIs, Postgres, MySQL, AWS, GCP, Docker, Git, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Terraform, React
Similar jobs
Backend Engineering jobs
The Voleon Group
Berkeley, CABuild scalable, high-performance software for trading infrastructure, research platforms, data processing, and model-development pipelines. The role is intended for 2027 graduates with backend development experience, strong systems fundamentals, and a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field.
David AI
San Francisco, CA
Build scalable backend systems, APIs, and data pipelines that process large volumes of audio data and support AI research and customer-facing products. The role requires at least two years of backend engineering experience and strong systems fundamentals; ML, DSP, or audio expertise is a plus.
Nuro
Mountain View, CA
Build real-time video-streaming pipelines, simulation frameworks, and cloud communication systems for a vehicle teleoperations platform. The role requires C/C++ or Go, networking expertise, and a Computer Science degree, with 2+ years of relevant experience for BS/MS candidates.
Lyft
Seattle, WA
Develop and operate scalable backend systems and security detection capabilities, collaborating cross-functionally from project inception through launch. Requires a master’s degree and at least two years of software development experience, including object-oriented programming and large-scale distributed systems.
Bubble
Remote
Build and improve high-scale backend infrastructure, workflow systems, data tiers, and reliability tooling supporting billions of requests. The role requires at least two years of software engineering experience, strong coding and problem-solving skills, distributed-systems familiarity, and participation in on-call operations.