About Flagright:
Flagright is an AI operating system for financial crime compliance used globally by Fortune 500 companies, large banks, fintechs, and fast growing startups. Flagright enables real-time risk detection, automated investigations, and intelligent decisioning, helping compliance teams operate at their full potential in the fight against financial crime.
We operate as a lean, high-performance team with high individual ownership and direct access to leadership.
Role overview:
Our Engineering team are the architects and builders behind Flagright. They design and develop the systems that power our platform, helping financial institutions detect and prevent financial crime at scale.
We’re hiring a Software Engineer to design, build, and scale the core infrastructure behind our platform. This is a high-ownership role where you’ll work closely with founders and customers to launch and iterate the product.
This is a high-ownership role in a fast-moving environment. You will solve complex engineering problems, make pragmatic decisions, and drive changes that increase the productivity of customers working on frontend applications and the efficiency and reliability of our API.
People who thrive at Flagright:
Have been knocked down before and gotten back up
Are resourceful—they figure things out with whatever tools are available
Have strong opinions and can defend them
Learn fast because they're hungry
Want to work with no-BS people building something important
People who struggle here:
Need extensive hand-holding
View high expectations as “unreasonable”
Actually prioritize work-life balance
Can’t handle ambiguity or rejection
Prefer consistent routine over fast-changing priorities
Key responsibilities:
Solve complex engineering problems at a fast pace
Consistently and relentlessly deliver high-quality frontend & backend code against tight deadlines
Collaborate closely with the founding team to deliver robust and comprehensive interfaces to core compliance and anti-fraud financial primitives
Make pragmatic tradeoffs considering customer experience, business priorities and a sustainable technical baseline
Own and drive changes that increase the productivity of customers working on frontend applications and the efficiency and reliability of our API
Work with your teammates to own and innovate on the development experience
Collaborate closely with the founding team and designers to deliver a great experience for people using your team’s products
Influence the direction of Flagright’s platform, services, and engineering culture
Hide complexity from our users behind simple, yet powerful abstractions
Who we are looking for:
6+ years of experience writing code, building and maintaining systems in high-scale production environments, and have driven one or more projects independently from design through implementation and maintenance is required
Interest in building software systems from scratch - we care much more about general engineering skills than knowledge of a particular language or framework
Pride in owning projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems
A high standard of themselves and the people they work with
Acute interest in taking ownership of technical design, implementation, and results
Strong and transparent communication skills
Problem-solving mindset - sees a problem as an opportunity to grow and is motivated to find solutions, thereby focusing on growth and achieving positive results
Tech Stack
Distributed NoSQL Datastores - Cassandra/DynamoDB, MongoDB, ClickHouse
Event brokers and Queues - Kafka, Kinesis, SQS
Node.js, TypeScript, Go, Scala
Docker Containers
AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Fargate
Apache Spark
What we offer:
Get equity from day 1 at a Y Combinator startup
Work alongside a highly competent, top-tier team, including professionals from Y Combinator, ex AWS, and Palantir
Enjoy a low-bureaucracy environment, minimal meetings, and an asynchronous communications culture
Great career development opportunities in a fast-growing company
You’ll be paid at the top of your market level
30 days of paid leave per year
Fast moving, challenging, and unique business problems
Do something meaningful, help stop human trafficking, money laundering, child labor; be a part of enabling the future of fintech startups
About the interview:
First interview with Madhu Nadig, Co-founder & CTO - 30 mins - This step is aimed to get to know each other, tell you more about the position and align expectations
Second interview with Flagright Engineers - 1 hour - Live technical task
Third interview with Flagright Engineers - 1 hour - Live technical task
Fourth interview with Madhu Nadig, Co-founder & CTO - 1 hour - Systems Design
Fifth interview with Harish Mycharla, Founding Product Designer - 1 hour - Culture fit interview
Sixth interview with Baran Ozkan, Co-founder & CEO - 30 mins - Bar Raiser
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