Senior Software Engineer, Identity & Regulatory Platform

Overview

Senior Software Engineer on the Identity & Regulatory Platform team, building the AI-enabled trust layer that lets financial institutions adopt blockchain safely, from first contact through onboarding to activation.

What you'll do

• Own the customer journey from lead to onboarding to activation, across the Paxos Dashboard and Identity APIs
• Instrument the onboarding funnel, find drop-off and friction, and run experiments that cut time-to-activation
• Design, build and operate backend services for KYC/KYB, identity verification, screening and identity lifecycle
• Use AI to automate compliance work such as document review, case triage and risk assessment, replacing manual ops
• Own integrations with third-party identity and screening vendors, including async workflows and webhooks
• Build data-privacy capabilities (GDPR erasure, PII handling) into the platform from the start
• Write design docs, lead technical decisions, mentor teammates and take part in on-call

What you'll need

• 5+ years building production backend systems
• 1+ year at senior level
• Strong in Go, Java or Python
• Experience designing APIs and data models for sensitive or regulated data
• Thinks about outcomes such as conversion, activation and time-to-value, not only shipping features
• Comfortable turning ambiguous requirements from non-engineering stakeholders into clear technical plans
• Uses AI tools daily to work faster and better

Nice to have

• Go strongly preferred
• Identity, KYC/AML or onboarding systems experience
• Growth engineering or experimentation experience
• Building LLM features into production
• Experience with Persona or similar vendors

Details

• Remote, United States (East Coast)
• On-call participation