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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Engineer II - **Company:** AiPrise Inc. - **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Business Logic, Microsoft Azure, Big Data, Software Quality, Code Review, Content Analysis, Continuous Integration, Relational Databases, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Amazon DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Microsoft Message Queuing, MongoDB, MySQL, Node.Js, NoSQL, Performance Tuning, Queueing Systems, RabbitMQ, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, TypeScript, ReactJS, Backend, Git, Event Driven Architecture, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Search Engines, Codebase, Front End Software Development, Virtual Agents, Restful APIs, Terraform, Data Pipelines, Docker, Web Api, Golang, Microservices - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/software-engineer-ii-aiprise-8137137 ## About the Role * 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 (PostgreSQL, 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) Nice-to-Have: * Experience in FinTech, RegTech, 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, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS) * Familiarity with NoSQL databases (MongoDB, DynamoDB) or search engines (Elasticsearch) * Experience integrating with third-party APIs and managing vendor relationships at scale * Frontend development experience (React, TypeScript) for building internal tools * Background working with ML/AI systems or data-intensive applications * Kubernetes, Terraform, or infrastructure-as-code experience, * In 9 Months: You're a go-to expert for critical platform areas, driving technical decisions for major initiatives, leading cross-functional feature teams, and have measurably improved engineering velocity and code quality. You've reduced manual review time for customers and helped scale the platform to handle 2-3 enterprise clients. ## Description 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 Drive Technical Excellence * 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-functionally 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, * In 3 Months: You've shipped 2-3 significant features to production, own key platform components (e.g., vendor orchestration layer, case management API), and are actively mentoring a junior engineer through onboarding and feature development ## Related Videos - [How a Small Team Shrank a Microsoft Monorepo by 94%](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1236-how-a-small-team-shrank-a-microsoft-monorepo-by-94) - [MySQL Protocol Features You Should Be Aware Of](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100267-mysql-protocol-features-you-should-be-aware-of) - [Leveraging Real time data in FSIs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/806-leveraging-real-time-data-in-fsis) - [Inside Bitpanda's Tech Stack: Scaling a European Fintech Leader - Markus Dorner](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1979-inside-bitpanda-s-tech-stack-scaling-a-european-fintech-leader-markus-dorner) - [Branch your database like your code: How schema changes and pull requests go hand in hand](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/350-branch-your-database-like-your-code-how-schema-changes-and-pull-requests-go-hand-in-hand) - [NoSQL Data Modeling for Front-end Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/297-nosql-data-modeling-for-front-end-developers) ## Related Articles - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [Why Upskilling And Reskilling is Important For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/428-why-upskilling-and-reskilling-is-important-for-developers) - [The 12 Best Jobs for Software Engineers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/401-the-12-best-jobs-for-software-engineers) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [Top-Paying Tech Jobs (with Salaries)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/372-top-paying-tech-jobs-with-salaries)