Senior Software Engineer - Investment Screening & Fraud Prevention
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Washington, D.C. metro area strongly preferred for in-person collaboration when needed; must live in the United StatesFull-TimeSenior
Salary153000 - 183000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSSQLDynamoDBHibernateJavaSpringAWS LambdaDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience in Java, Spring, and Hibernate
- 4+ years of experience building and maintaining production applications on AWS, including services such as EC2, ECS, CDK, S3, SQS, Lambda, and DynamoDB
- 3+ years of experience with SQL and relational databases, where transactions and throughput were critical to operations
- Experience making significant contributions to designing, building, and maintaining distributed systems to ensure scalability, reliability, and fault tolerance
- Experience improving existing systems and workflows in operationally complex environments, not just building greenfield systems from scratch
- Experience using AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, or Gemini CLI in day-to-day development workflows
- Demonstrated track record of effective communication and collaboration with business stakeholders
- Ability to quickly absorb and understand large and complex new domains and workflows
- Experience in fintech, fraud detection, risk, compliance, or a similarly regulated domain (Preferred)
- Experience integrating with third-party identity verification, KYC/AML, or financial data providers (Preferred)
Responsibilities
- Design and build practical enhancements to our investment screening and fraud prevention platform, including decisioning systems and integrations with third-party data providers
- Own the end-to-end software development lifecycle, including design, implementation, testing, and production support
- Make pragmatic tradeoffs and incorporate stakeholder feedback to deliver reliable, compliant solutions without unnecessary complexity
- Maintain, monitor, and improve systems and infrastructure deployed on AWS
- Partner closely with Operations, Legal, Product, and Finance to translate screening and compliance requirements into effective software solutions
- Review pull requests and contribute to a culture of high-quality, maintainable, and pragmatic engineering
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