Senior Software Engineer, Identity & Compliance Platform

Hood L2; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Paxos is building a trusted, scalable financial infrastructure. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Identity & Regulatory Platform, you’ll own the customer journey from first contact through onboarding to activation.

You’ll design and operate backend services for KYC/KYB, use AI to automate compliance review, and collaborate with Product, Compliance and identity vendors to go live while meeting regulatory obligations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production backend systems with 1+ year at senior level.
• Proficient in Go, Java or Python; Go preferred.
• Experience designing APIs and data models for sensitive data.
• Focus on outcomes such as activation and value, not just shipping features.

Responsibilities

• Own the customer journey from lead to onboarding to activation across the Paxos Dashboard and Identity APIs.
• Instrument onboarding funnel, reduce drop-off, and run experiments to cut time-to-activation.
• Design, build and operate backend services for KYC/KYB, identity verification and screening.
• Use AI to automate compliance tasks such as document review and risk assessment.
• Own integrations with third-party identity vendors and webhooks.
• Build data-privacy capabilities into the platform from the start.
• Write design docs, lead technical decisions, mentor teammates and participate in on-call.

Skills

Go

Java

Python

Job description

Paxos is building a trusted, scalable financial infrastructure. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Identity & Regulatory Platform, you’ll own the customer journey from first contact through onboarding to activation.

You’ll design and operate backend services for KYC/KYB, use AI to automate compliance review, and collaborate with Product, Compliance and identity vendors to go live while meeting regulatory obligations.