4 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own architecture and multi-quarter technical roadmaps for a core platform area.
- Lead large, ambiguous, cross-team technical initiatives from problem framing through delivery, rollout, or migration.
- Author and review RFCs, conduct design reviews, and make build-versus-buy and technical-debt decisions.
- Set standards for reliability, security, data integrity, incident response, change management, and audit readiness.
- Scale the orchestration layer for higher verification volume across more than 80 vendors, including throughput, latency, failover, and cost improvements.
- Shape the developer platform through service boundaries, shared libraries, CI/CD, and observability.
- Bring AI agent systems to production with evaluation, guardrails, human-in-the-loop workflows, and supporting data pipelines.
- Prototype risky components, unblock critical paths, and ship production code.
- Mentor senior engineers, develop technical leads, and help raise engineering standards.
- Partner with founders, engineering managers, product, compliance experts, and enterprise customers on strategy, architecture, security reviews, and integrations.
- Help hire engineers by designing interviews, calibrating the hiring bar, and closing senior candidates.
Requirements
- At least 9 years of experience building and operating production systems, including at least 2 years at Staff-level scope.
- Track record of leading cross-team technical initiatives from ambiguous problems to shipped and adopted results.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems and backend architecture, including service design, data modeling, API design, event-driven systems, consistency trade-offs, and failure modes.
- Experience designing, scaling, and operating high-throughput, high-reliability systems and carrying the pager for them.
- Strong proficiency in at least one of Python, Go, or TypeScript/Node.js, with the ability to work across the stack as needed.
- Strong technical writing skills for RFCs, design documents, and postmortems.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and measurably raising engineering standards.
- Preferred experience in FinTech, RegTech, payments, identity verification, fraud or risk detection, KYC/KYB, AML, or sanctions screening.
- Preferred experience operating platforms integrating dozens of third-party vendors, including response normalization, failover, rate limits, and vendor observability.
- Preferred experience shipping production LLM or ML systems, including evaluation, guardrails, cost and latency management, or document intelligence.
- Preferred security and compliance engineering experience, including SOC 2 or ISO 27001, data residency, encryption, or audit trails.
- Preferred experience helping an engineering team grow while maintaining quality and velocity.
- Frontend experience with React and TypeScript is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and comprehensive benefits are offered.
- Work in person with the team and founders in Bangalore.
- The role offers direct ownership and impact on a platform processing millions of verifications for financial institutions.
- The interview process includes remote and in-office technical and behavioral interviews, followed by a remote compensation discussion.
About AiPrise
AiPrise builds a B2B platform for fraud prevention, risk, and compliance that unifies KYC/KYB, identity verification, and business onboarding across 200+ countries. Banks, fintechs, payment providers, crypto firms, and marketplaces use it to consolidate data and design compliant onboarding flows. Founded in 2022 and based in San Jose, the privately held, YC-backed company is at the Series A stage.