Base Salary
$182k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build shared agentic infrastructure for orchestration, tool execution, context and session management, policy controls, and observability.
- Build, ship, and operate agents automating financial workflows across operations, compliance, and treasury.
- Ship backend services, APIs, and product experiences for internal and external customers.
- Make build-versus-buy decisions and integrate third-party components where appropriate while owning reliability-critical systems.
- Build evaluation and monitoring systems to ensure agents are accurate, reliable, and safe in a regulated environment.
- Implement routing logic to optimize large language model usage across providers.
- Contribute to engineering standards, code reviews, and the technical growth of the team.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of backend software engineering experience shipping production systems end to end.
- Hands-on experience building and shipping agentic systems or large language model-powered workflows in production.
- Strong understanding of APIs, distributed systems, databases, and cloud-native architecture.
- Experience with Node.js or Python backend development, AWS, and modern CI/CD tooling.
- Ability to move between infrastructure development and hands-on product iteration while owning ambiguous problems independently.
- Experience in an early-stage startup or demonstrated ability to work at a fast pace.
- Experience or genuine interest in regulated industries where correctness and compliance are important.
- Preferred experience includes multi-model or multi-provider artificial intelligence systems, orchestration frameworks, tool use, Model Context Protocol surfaces, or evaluation pipelines.
- Preferred background includes cross-border payments, Anti-Money Laundering, or transaction monitoring.
Benefits
- Equity is offered.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits are provided.
- 15 days of paid time off are provided.
- A learning and development budget is offered.
- The role follows a hybrid model requiring 2–3 days per week in the Palo Alto office.
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About Tensec
Tensec is reimagining B2B cross-border financial services by leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence to offer the fastest and simplest way for businesses to move money across global markets. Our zero-integration platform enables global trade companies and FX brokers to deliver international payments and financial solutions to their clients—unlocking new revenue opportunities and fueling growth. With instant client onboarding, multi-currency accounts, and real-time payments, Tensec simplifies global finance, enabling businesses to transact across 150+ countries, 100+ real-time payment networks, and 70+ currencies. Our mission is to empower cross-border businesses of all sizes with financial technology that enables them to participate, grow, and thrive in the dynamic world of international trade. Tensec was founded by industry veterans from PayPal, Meta, Goldman Sachs, Visa, Mastercard, Rapyd, and Credit Karma. Backed by world-class investors, Tensec is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in New York, Mexico City, and São Paulo. For more information, visit www.tensec.io.