Senior Backend Engineer Trust and Safety

You will build detection, monitoring, case-management, and real-time risk systems that support AML, KYC, sanctions screening, and financial-crime prevention. You will integrate surveillance platforms, structure audit-grade data pipelines, reconcile financial data, and translate regulatory requirements into engineering systems with Compliance, Risk, and Legal stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build detection, monitoring, and case-management systems
• Integrate trade-surveillance and case-management platforms
• Structure audit-grade data pipelines with tiered storage and long-term S3 retention
• Model and reconcile financial data and ledger records
• Translate regulatory requirements into alerting, case queues, and investigative reporting
• Develop real-time risk decisioning and transaction-monitoring systems
• Collaborate with engineers across the platform

Requirements

• Backend engineering experience with detection, monitoring, or case-management tooling
• Experience with AML/BSA, KYC/EDD, or sanctions-screening obligations
• Experience integrating trade-surveillance and case-management platforms such as Eventus or Palantir
• Experience structuring audit-grade data pipelines
• Financial data modeling and ledger reconciliation experience
• Experience partnering with Compliance, Risk, and Legal teams
• Risk, fraud, or compliance-technology engineering experience at a fintech or crypto exchange
• Experience with real-time risk decisioning or transaction-monitoring systems is a plus

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Unlimited PTO
• Full health, vision, and dental coverage
• 401(k) match
• New MacBook Pro, display, and accessories