Base Salary
$148k - $275k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and technical design for complex customer-facing systems and integrations.
- Design, build, deploy, monitor, and iterate on production-grade integrations using Middesk APIs, data pipelines, and AI workflows.
- Own complex deployments end-to-end and establish reusable deployment patterns and engineering standards.
- Build and operate LLM- and agent-based systems in customer workflows, including evaluation frameworks, test harnesses, metrics, and feedback loops.
- Partner with customers to understand their architectures, workflows, and constraints, and solve ambiguous high-impact problems.
- Translate deployment learnings into reusable abstractions, internal tooling, product improvements, and roadmap priorities.
- Guide engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on collaboration while leading through influence.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience building and shipping software in production environments.
- Demonstrated experience as a technical lead or domain owner for a team or major system.
- Strong proficiency in Python and at least one additional language such as TypeScript or Go.
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-native infrastructure.
- Ability to work across backend systems, integrations, infrastructure, and tooling.
- Strong debugging instincts, ownership, communication, and ability to explain technical trade-offs.
- Hands-on experience building or deploying LLM-powered or agent-based systems is a strong plus.
- Familiarity with LLM evaluation techniques, performance measurement, automated workflows, AI agents, or AI-powered developer tooling is valuable.
- Experience in startup environments, fintech, compliance, regulated systems, or direct customer work on complex technical problems is valued.
- Bonus experience includes founding or joining an early-stage startup, identity systems, risk or fraud, workflow automation, observability, reliability engineering, or system safety practices.
Benefits
- High ownership, trust, autonomy, and direct influence on product direction and technical standards.
- Work on deep technical problems with real-world customer impact.
- Thoughtful engineering culture that values substance over performative process.
Tech Stack
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About Middesk
Businesses can’t move at the speed of the modern economy without knowing who they’re working with. Today, business identity data is slow, fragmented, and treated as a one-time check, creating friction for good businesses and blind spots for fraud. Middesk provides business identity intelligence that enables companies to grow faster and make confident decisions about the businesses they work with. We deliver intelligence through infrastructure, APIs, and a modular toolkit that integrates directly into onboarding, risk, compliance, and operations workflows, not as a standalone dashboard. Middesk supports any company that works with other businesses, especially where revenue velocity and risk management matter. We have over 500 customers across many industries including: Banking & fintech Lending & payments Marketplaces & embedded finance Payroll & compliance platforms We help our customers verify and onboard over 5M businesses annually, and our customers see 30% higher auto-approval rates, 60–70% less manual review, and faster onboarding without increased risk. Follow Middesk for insights on: How better business identity intelligence will help you grow Fraud and risk patterns in B2B ecosystems How fintechs, banks, and marketplaces scale safely What’s changing in KYB, AML, compliance, and onboarding