About Careertakes

👉 Important disclosure: Careertakes is a third-party recruiting platform supporting this hiring process. If selected, you will be employed directly by our client, Financial Services.

Applicants for this role may also receive access to additional matched opportunities through the Careertakes platform.

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Role Overview

Confidential Client (Financial Services) is hiring a Software Engineer I to join a fast-moving engineering team in San Jose, CA. You’ll help build and scale the core compliance orchestration platform and AI agent systems that power customer onboarding and fraud prevention. This is a hands-on role where you’ll take features end-to-end — design, implement, deploy, and operate — across backend services, data pipelines, vendor integrations, and internal tools.

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What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, and ship production features across the platform stack (backend APIs, data pipelines, integrations, case management UI)
• Own features from requirements through implementation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration
• Build scalable REST APIs and microservices that orchestrate checks across many compliance vendors
• Implement case-management workflows and business logic for KYB/KYC and AML processes
• Create data pipelines for ingesting, transforming, and routing compliance data at scale
• Integrate with third-party identity/compliance APIs and map vendor responses reliably
• Write tests, documentation, and observability (monitoring, alerting) into your features
• Debug production incidents and own incident resolution end-to-end
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices and architecture discussions

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Minimum Qualifications

• 0–2 years 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
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD, Docker, and modern deployment practices
• Strong debugging/problem-solving skills and ability to work in unfamiliar codebases
• Clear communication skills; able to translate business needs into technical solutions

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Nice-to-Have

• Experience in FinTech, RegTech, payments, or fraud/risk detection
• Knowledge of compliance workflows (KYC/KYB, AML, sanctions screening)
• Experience with event-driven architectures and message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS)
• Familiarity with NoSQL databases (MongoDB, DynamoDB) or search engines (Elasticsearch)
• Frontend experience (React, TypeScript) for internal tools
• Background with ML/AI systems or data-intensive applications
• Kubernetes, Terraform, or other infrastructure-as-code experience

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Interview Process

• Initial exploratory discussion (remote)
• Coding / DSA assessment
• System design interview
• Technical + cultural fit interviews
• Compensation discussion

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Compensation & Location

• Location: San Jose, CA (in-person)
• Employment type: Full-time
• Compensation range (provided): $115,000 — $150,000 base (USD). Actual pay depends on experience, skills, and other factors; final offer details discussed during the interview process.

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Equal Opportunity & Hiring Transparency

Careertakes and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind. To support a fair and efficient hiring process, AI tools may be used to assist with application review or resume screening. These tools do not replace human decision-making. Final hiring decisions are made by people.

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