Senior Software Engineer
AI risk platform that helps financial institutions prevent fraud, ensure compliance, and detect money laundering through behavioral analysis and device intelligence.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
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About Sardine
Sardine helps financial institutions prevent fraud and ensure compliance by analyzing user behavior and device intelligence in real-time. Users can detect identity theft, payment fraud, account takeovers, and money laundering while streamlining KYC/AML processes. Sardine provides risk management with AI agents, case management, and regulatory reporting tools.
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About the Role
You'll play a pivotal role in designing, constructing, and maintaining APIs, services, and systems across the engineering team. This multifaceted position involves developing new features on a large scale, refining internal tooling and processes, contributing to product and technical roadmaps, and assuming diverse responsibilities within the organization. You'll build highly available APIs and bring proficiency in data pipelines and the fraud prevention domain to the role.
Requirements
- 7+ years of proven experience as a Software Engineer specializing in web backend development.
- Proficiency in Golang is a significant advantage.
- Additional experience in data engineering is highly desirable.
- Track record of successfully delivering high-quality production services and systems.
- Customer-centric approach with strong empathy toward users.
- Relevant banking or fintech industry experience and domain knowledge in fraud prevention or compliance.
- Proficiency in English, from casual chats to formal reports.
Responsibilities
- Design, create, and maintain robust, efficient, and reliable backend services to meet the platform's evolving needs.
- Collaborate closely with business stakeholders to architect and implement new services from inception to delivery.
- Contribute to developing new features and capabilities that deliver substantial value to customers.
- Work with various engineering and product teams to synchronize efforts and deliver cutting-edge solutions.
- Craft and maintain user-facing technical documentation, enhancing user understanding and facilitating seamless adoption of services.
- Shape the company's engineering culture and maintain high engineering standards across the organization.
Benefits
- Generous compensation in cash and equity
- Early exercise for all options, including pre-vested
- Remote-first culture
- Flexible paid time off and year-end break
- Health, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
- 4% matching in 401k or RRSP
- MacBook Pro delivered to your door
- One-time home office setup stipend
- Monthly meal stipend
- Monthly social meet-up stipend
- Annual health and wellness stipend
- Annual learning stipend
