Senior Staff Software Engineer
Core
Architect and own core risk and onboarding platform services, including real-time decisioning engines, transaction monitoring pipelines, and access control frameworks that process high volumes of payments with strict latency and reliability requirements.
Role type
Senior Staff Software Engineer (Risk Engineering)
Builds
Risk decisioning infrastructure, onboarding compliance systems, access control frameworks, and real-time signal processing pipelines for payment, lending, and spend products.
Domain
Fintech / Financial Risk / Security Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Distributed high-availability low-latency system design, Java/JVM, Access control systems (RBAC, PAM), AWS cloud security, Technical leadership, AI-assisted engineering workflows
Preferred skills
Machine learning model integration into production pipelines, Real-time streaming architectures (Kafka), Financial compliance frameworks (KYC/KYB, BSA/AML)
Technologies
Java, AWS, Kafka, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Claude
Responsibilities
Architect and own core risk and onboarding platform services, Set the technical vision for cross-product onboarding and compliance platforms, Define and deliver a technical roadmap for risk and access control infrastructure, Partner with AWS infrastructure teams to design and implement security controls, Collaborate with data science teams to operationalize machine learning models for fraud detection, Define and champion standards for AI-assisted engineering, Lead end-to-end delivery of complex cross-functional risk and onboarding initiatives, Mentor and elevate engineers on the risk team
Seniority
Senior Staff, hands-on technical leadership & strategy
