# Software Engineer II (USA)

**Company:** [AiPrise](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/aiprise)
**Location:** San Jose, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $200k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 2+ years
**Skills:** Python, Go, Java, Node.js, REST APIs, Postgres, MySQL, AWS, GCP, Docker, Git, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Terraform, React
**Posted:** 2026-02-25

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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