Backend Engineer: AI-Driven Compliance Platforms

Kobalt Labs co; New York (NY); On-site; USD 225,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch in-office

100% employer-paid medical, dental, &

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Kobalt Labs is hiring a Backend Software Engineer to own products end-to-end, from problem understanding to production operation in a scalable, reliable way.

You will build systems powering AI-enabled risk and compliance workflows, design data models, and own APIs and data pipelines that support complex customer needs. Collaboration with other engineers and Customer Success is essential for delivering impactful solutions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
• Backend applications and APIs experience.
• Strong understanding of databases, data modeling, distributed systems, and production infrastructure.
• Experience designing and owning substantial backend systems from initial architecture through production.
• Ability to reason through complex technical problems and make thoughtful architectural tradeoffs.
• Strong attention to reliability, performance, and maintainability.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend systems that power Kobalt's core products and workflows.
• Build AI-powered features that automate complex, historically manual risk and compliance work.
• Own technical projects end-to-end, from architecture and data modeling through implementation, deployment, and iteration.
• Build reliable APIs, data pipelines, and infrastructure that support increasingly complex customer workflows.
• Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of our systems as Kobalt grows.
• Work closely with other engineers and Customer Success to understand customer needs and turn them into technical solutions.

Skills

Backend development

APIs

Distributed systems

Data modeling

Reliability focus

Tools

Databases

Cloud infrastructure

Job description

Kobalt Labs is hiring a Backend Software Engineer to own products end-to-end, from problem understanding to production operation in a scalable, reliable way.

You will build systems powering AI-enabled risk and compliance workflows, design data models, and own APIs and data pipelines that support complex customer needs. Collaboration with other engineers and Customer Success is essential for delivering impactful solutions.