Software Engineer II

About Ai Prise

AiPrise is a global compliance orchestration platform helping fintechs, marketplaces, and payment companies verify and onboard customers worldwide. We integrate with 80+ identity and compliance vendors to deliver a holistic view of risk. We're now building AI-powered compliance agents to revolutionize KYB, AML, sanctions screening, and risk scoring — enabling our customers to onboard faster, reduce manual reviews, and prevent financial crime.

We’re hiring a Software Engineer II to help build and scale the core platform behind AiPrise’s compliance orchestration and AI agent systems.

This is a build it, ship it, own it role. You’ll take features end to end, from design to code to deploy to iterate, across our case management product, vendor integrations, orchestration APIs, and customer facing tools. You’ll be in the trenches with founders and a fast moving team, turning messy real world compliance problems into clean, reliable systems. If you’re a hungry engineer who wants real ownership, high impact, and a product that gets used in production every day, you’ll love this.

This is an in-person role based in our San Jose, CA office (5 days/week). You ll work directly with our product, and engineering teams to deliver high-quality features that help global fintechs fight financial crime. As an SDE2, you ll mentor junior engineers and help establish engineering best practices.

• Design, develop, and ship production features across our platform stack (backend APIs, data pipelines, integrations, case management UI)
• Own complete features from requirements gathering → implementation → deployment → monitoring
• Build scalable REST APIs and microservices that orchestrate checks across 80+ compliance vendors (identity verification, sanctions screening, document analysis)
• Develop case management workflows and business logic for KYB/AML compliance processes
• Create data pipelines for ingesting, transforming, and routing compliance data at scale
• Integrate with third-party identity/compliance APIs and handle complex vendor response mapping

• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code with comprehensive documentation
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices
• Debug production issues with urgency; own incident resolution end-to-end
• Optimize system performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency
• Build monitoring, alerting, and observability into your features

• Work cross-functional with product managers, compliance experts, and customer success teams
• Contribute to technical decision-making and architecture discussions
• Help shape engineering culture and development workflows as the team scales

• 2-4 years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production systems
• Strong programming fundamentals in at least one modern backend language (Python, Go, Java, Node.js, or similar)
• Experience building RESTful APIs, microservices, or distributed systems
• Solid understanding of relational databases (Postgre
  
  SQL, MySQL) and data modeling
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred, GCP/Azure acceptable)
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and modern deployment practices
• Proven ability to own features end-to-end — you ve taken projects from ambiguous requirements through production launch
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills; comfortable working in unfamiliar codebases
• Excellent communication skills and ability to translate business needs into technical solutions
• Experience mentoring or supporting junior engineers (formal or informal)

• Experience in Fin Tech, Reg Tech, payments, or fraud/risk detection domains
• Knowledge of compliance workflows (KYC/KYB, AML, sanctions screening, adverse media)
• Experience with event-driven architectures and message queues (Kafka, Rabbit
  
  MQ, AWS SQS)
• Familiarity with No
  
  SQL databases (Mongo
  
  DB, Dynamo
  
  DB) or search engines (Elasticsearch)
• Experience integrating with third-party APIs and managing vendor relationships at scale
• Frontend development experience (React, Type Script) for building internal…