Backend Engineer — AI-Powered Compliance, Equity

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

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch provided in-office

100% employer-paid medical, dental, &

Job summary

Kobalt Labs is hiring a Backend Software Engineer to build and operate the data models, APIs, and infrastructure powering our AI-driven compliance platform for financial institutions. You will own substantial backend systems from architecture through production, designing scalable solutions for complex risk workflows.

Join a team focused on reliability, performance, and collaboration with engineers and Customer Success to deliver impactful features and scalable customer experiences.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building backend applications and APIs.
• 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

Performance optimization

Job description

Kobalt Labs is hiring a Backend Software Engineer to build and operate the data models, APIs, and infrastructure powering our AI-driven compliance platform for financial institutions. You will own substantial backend systems from architecture through production, designing scalable solutions for complex risk workflows.

Join a team focused on reliability, performance, and collaboration with engineers and Customer Success to deliver impactful features and scalable customer experiences.