Software Engineer
What we do
Flagright enables fintechs prevent financial crime and helps stop human trafficking, child labor, sex slavery, and fraud among other crimes. We offer an API-first solution with a no-code back office portal for AML compliance and fraud prevention use cases.
We provide an API-first solution with a no-code back office portal. We are a Y Combinator-backed company based in Berlin, serving customers from four continents.
You will:
- Solve complex engineering problems at a fast pace.
- Architect, build, evolve and own significant parts of the core Flagright systems.
- Deliver extremely reliable and performant software systems against tight deadlines.
- Influence the direction of Flagright’s platform, services, and engineering culture.
- Scope, design, and implement high-performance APIs and services.
- Hide complexity from our users behind simple, yet powerful abstractions.
- Collaborate closely with the founding team to deliver robust and comprehensive interfaces to core compliance and anti-fraud financial primitives.
- Develop and execute against both short and long-term roadmaps.
- Make pragmatic tradeoffs considering customer experience, business priorities and a sustainable technical baseline.
Your profile:
- At least 3 years of experience and interest in building software systems from scratch - we care much more about general engineering skill 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 English communication skills.
- Problem solving mindset - see a problem as an opportunity to grow and is motivated to find solutions, thereby focussing on growth and achieving positive results.
Tech Stack
- Distributed NoSQL Datastores - Cassandra/DynamoDB, MongoDB
- Event brokers and Queues - Kafka, Kinesis, SQS
- Node.js, TypeScript, Go, Scala
- Docker Containers
- AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Fargate
- Apache Spark
Benefits
- Work alongside a highly competent, top-tier team (Y Combinator, ex AWS, Zalando, Palantir).
- Great career development opportunities in a fast-growing company.
- Low-bureaucracy, minimal meetings, async communications, international culture, flat organization.
- Significant equity option package at a YC-backed startup.
- You’ll be paid at the top of your market level.
- 20 days of paid vacation per year.
- Relocation to Berlin is fully supported for this position including the visa sponsorship. We are an office-based startup, remote isn't supported.
- Fast moving, challenging and unique business problems.
- Possibility for relocation and international transfers mid-career.
- Do something meaningful, help stop human trafficking, money laundering, child labor; Be a part of enabling the future of fintech startups.