Senior Software Engineer - Bengaluru

📋 Description

• • Join Flagright, a Y Combinator-backed leader in the fight against financial crime, and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of fintech and banking security. We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Software Engineer to contribute to our mission of providing best-in-class technology solutions that combat financial crime and ensure AML compliance for fintechs and banks worldwide.
• • As a Senior Software Engineer at Flagright, you will be at the forefront of innovation, working with cutting-edge AI and data technologies to build and enhance our no-code platform. Our API-first approach allows for rapid integration, drastically reducing the industry standard implementation time from months to just a week. This means your work will have an immediate and significant impact on our clients.
• • This is a unique opportunity to learn from seasoned technologists, including professionals with backgrounds from Y Combinator, AWS, and Palantir. You will have the chance to influence industry trends in Fintech, experiment with the latest advancements in data and AI, and bring to market a truly groundbreaking product.
• • We foster a culture of openness and transparency, where every team member is encouraged to contribute to any aspect of the business. Your ideas and contributions are valued, and nothing is beyond your reach in terms of influencing our direction and success.
• • The core of your role will involve solving complex engineering problems at a rapid pace. You will be responsible for delivering high-quality frontend and backend code, consistently meeting tight deadlines while maintaining exceptional standards.
• • You will collaborate closely with our founding team to develop robust and comprehensive interfaces that power our core compliance and anti-fraud financial primitives. This requires a deep understanding of system design and the ability to translate complex requirements into elegant, scalable solutions.
• • A key aspect of your work will be making pragmatic tradeoffs. You'll need to balance customer experience, business priorities, and the need for a sustainable technical baseline, ensuring that our platform is both powerful and maintainable.
• • You will own and drive changes that directly enhance the productivity of our customers using our frontend applications, as well as improve the efficiency and reliability of our API. This ownership extends to innovating on the development experience for your teammates, fostering a more productive and enjoyable work environment.
• • Working collaboratively with your teammates, you will own and innovate on the development experience, ensuring that our internal tools and processes are as effective as our external product.
• • You will have the opportunity to influence the strategic direction of Flagright's platform, services, and engineering culture. Your insights and technical leadership will be crucial in guiding our growth and technological evolution.
• • A significant part of your challenge will be to abstract away complexity for our users, presenting them with simple yet powerful interfaces that allow them to leverage our advanced capabilities without being overwhelmed.
• • We are looking for developers who have a strong inclination towards building fast prototypes that can be launched to real customers, followed by iterative improvements based on user feedback and data. An entrepreneurial mindset is highly valued, or at least a strong desire to learn and thrive in the dynamic environment of an early-stage startup.
• • You will be instrumental in ensuring the reliability and scalability of our systems, which handle sensitive financial data and critical compliance operations. This includes working with distributed NoSQL datastores like Cassandra and DynamoDB, event brokers such as Kafka, and modern cloud-native technologies on AWS.
• • Your contributions will directly impact our ability to help stop human trafficking, money laundering, and child labor, by enabling fintech startups to operate securely and compliantly. This is a chance to do something truly meaningful and contribute to the future of financial services.
• • We believe in empowering our engineers. You will have the autonomy to make significant technical decisions and drive projects from conception through to deployment and ongoing maintenance.
• • This role demands a proactive approach to problem-solving, viewing challenges as opportunities for growth and innovation. You will be motivated to find effective solutions that contribute to the company's overall success and positive impact.
• • You will be working with a tech stack that includes Node.js, TypeScript, Go, Scala, Docker containers, AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Fargate, and Apache Spark, providing a diverse and challenging set of technologies to master and leverage.
• • Ultimately, you will be a key player in a fast-moving, challenging, and unique business environment, contributing to a product that makes a real difference in the world.