Remote – United States
$200,000 - $250,000 + 0.2%-0.4%
Your opportunity
Our client is a well-financed, seed-stage startup building a platform of agents that automate financial crime investigations and compliance workflows. The company is a Delaware corporation that currently operates with remote teams distributed across the United States. The founders and several early team members are located in San Francisco, and the company will be establishing a workspace there in the medium term. They are a hard-charging startup that has raised $6.2M, grew to $1M in ARR in under one year, and has marquee clients around the globe including Kraken (US), Koho (Canada), and Viva (EU).
Their product enables customers to invoke (or “hire”) agents that automate AML, sanctions screening, adverse media monitoring, KYC, and transaction screening and monitoring. The solution combats revenue losses that result from high-friction customer onboarding and the rising costs of compliance missteps, and allows growing businesses to scale revenues rapidly without making compliance tradeoffs. The product is not versioned for customers, and the engineering team deploys daily.
The company is led by an experienced founder who has raised more than $100M to date and has grown their last venture to a $1.5B valuation. Both the founder and CTO have led fintechs that required large compliance teams and have had outlier experience in the domain. As of November 2025, the company does not yet have any direct competitors in its space.
Key responsibilities
Software architecture and engineering: Design and implement event‑driven, real‑time, highly concurrent systems leveraging advanced concurrency patterns, asynchronous messaging, and performance optimizations to ensure low‑latency, high‑throughput and fault‑tolerance
Systems architecture and engineering: Collaborate on cloud‑native architecture, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, autoscaling and load‑balancing strategies, security best practices, and observability efforts
AI platform engineering: Integrate LLMs and other emerging AI technologies, select and potentially fine‑tune models, orchestrate deployments, and monitor performance
Technical leadership and mentoring: Guide architecture and design decisions, conduct code reviews, establish best practices, and coach team members to accelerate their technical growth while reinforcing a culture of continuous improvement
Tech stack
Back-end: Python (FastAPI), Go
Front-end: React/Next.js
Database: Cloud SQL, BigQuery, AlloyDB, GCS
Infrastructure: GCP, Azure
ML & AI services: OpenAI
Containers: Kubernetes/GKE
Your know-how
You are comfortable across the stack with deep architectural experience in large-scale distributed systems and data management
You have a strong product mindset and are comfortable working iteratively with fuzzy requirements
You have experience scaling backend infrastructure and are very comfortable with at least one major cloud provider
You have a bias to action and subscribe to the gettings things done (GTD) engineering methodology
You have experience building production services/APIs in Python
You have a fantastic command of English
It’s a bonus if
You have experience scaling a fast-growing AI and/or B2B SaaS venture
You have financial compliance domain experience
You have experience shipping LLM-enabled products/features to production
Our Edge
Hiring and retaining skilled talent is paramount for your company’s success. Finding the right people – who have the right skills and right personality fit – can be incredibly challenging in today’s job market. Here at hireVouch we can help you acquire the highest calibre candidates through the relationships we have formed over more than a decade. Our approach is an ethical one. Rather than use the often-employed aggressive methods typical of the recruitment industry, our focus is placed largely on referral-based networking.
Getting it right really matters to us. Let us leverage our network of talent that has already been vouched for by leading professionals in the industry to help your business grow.
Services Offered
Contingency and Retained Search
Here at hireVouch we focus on sourcing best-in-class candidates for rewarding positions in Canada and the US. We have extensive expertise in Contingency, Retained and Temporary placement, primarily within the IT sector.
On-Site Search Assistance
We have a trusted network of HR and search professionals who can provide on-site search services to help fulfill immediate needs as well as help train internal staff in finding the highest quality talent
Company Marketing Strategy
We know how competitive the job market can truly be and how important it is to have a strategy to attract talent. At hireVouch we have extensive expertise in helping companies better market themselves. We can provide the tools and knowledge that will assist you in making your business a highly attractive place to work. Developing a company marketing strategy is key to hiring the talent you need to grow.
