Software Engineer - Bangalore

About Flagright:

Flagright is an AI operating system for financial crime compliance used globally by Fortune 500 companies, large banks, fintechs, and fast growing startups. Flagright enables real-time risk detection, automated investigations, and intelligent decisioning, helping compliance teams operate at their full potential in the fight against financial crime.

We operate as a lean, high-performance team with high individual ownership and direct access to leadership.

Role overview:

Our Engineering team are the architects and builders behind Flagright. They design and develop the systems that power our platform, helping financial institutions detect and prevent financial crime at scale.

We’re hiring a Software Engineer to design, build, and scale the core infrastructure behind our platform. This is a high-ownership role where you’ll work closely with founders and customers to launch and iterate the product.

This is a high-ownership role in a fast-moving environment. You will solve complex engineering problems, make pragmatic decisions, and drive changes that increase the productivity of customers working on frontend applications and the efficiency and reliability of our API.

People who thrive at Flagright:

• Have been knocked down before and gotten back up

• Are resourceful—they figure things out with whatever tools are available

• Have strong opinions and can defend them

• Learn fast because they're hungry

• Want to work with no-BS people building something important

People who struggle here:

• Need extensive hand-holding

• View high expectations as “unreasonable”

• Actually prioritize work-life balance

• Can’t handle ambiguity or rejection

• Prefer consistent routine over fast-changing priorities

Key responsibilities:

• Solve complex engineering problems at a fast pace

• Consistently and relentlessly deliver high-quality frontend & backend code against tight deadlines

• Collaborate closely with the founding team to deliver robust and comprehensive interfaces to core compliance and anti-fraud financial primitives

• Make pragmatic tradeoffs considering customer experience, business priorities and a sustainable technical baseline

• Own and drive changes that increase the productivity of customers working on frontend applications and the efficiency and reliability of our API

• Work with your teammates to own and innovate on the development experience

• Collaborate closely with the founding team and designers to deliver a great experience for people using your team’s products

• Influence the direction of Flagright’s platform, services, and engineering culture

• Hide complexity from our users behind simple, yet powerful abstractions

Who we are looking for:

• 6+ years of experience writing code, building and maintaining systems in high-scale production environments, and have driven one or more projects independently from design through implementation and maintenance is required

• Interest in building software systems from scratch - we care much more about general engineering skills than knowledge of a particular language or framework

• Pride in owning projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems

• A high standard of themselves and the people they work with

• Acute interest in taking ownership of technical design, implementation, and results

• Strong and transparent communication skills

• Problem-solving mindset - sees a problem as an opportunity to grow and is motivated to find solutions, thereby focusing on growth and achieving positive results

Tech Stack

• Distributed NoSQL Datastores - Cassandra/DynamoDB, MongoDB, ClickHouse

• Event brokers and Queues - Kafka, Kinesis, SQS

• Node.js, TypeScript, Go, Scala

• Docker Containers

• AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Fargate

• Apache Spark

What we offer:

• Get equity from day 1 at a Y Combinator startup

• Work alongside a highly competent, top-tier team, including professionals from Y Combinator, ex AWS, and Palantir

• Enjoy a low-bureaucracy environment, minimal meetings, and an asynchronous communications culture

• Great career development opportunities in a fast-growing company

• You’ll be paid at the top of your market level

• 30 days of paid leave per year

• Fast moving, challenging, and unique business problems

• Do something meaningful, help stop human trafficking, money laundering, child labor; be a part of enabling the future of fintech startups

About the interview:

• First interview with Madhu Nadig, Co-founder & CTO - 30 mins - This step is aimed to get to know each other, tell you more about the position and align expectations

• Second interview with Flagright Engineers - 1 hour - Live technical task

• Third interview with Flagright Engineers - 1 hour - Live technical task

• Fourth interview with Madhu Nadig, Co-founder & CTO - 1 hour - Systems Design

• Fifth interview with Harish Mycharla, Founding Product Designer - 1 hour - Culture fit interview

• Sixth interview with Baran Ozkan, Co-founder & CEO - 30 mins - Bar Raiser

• Reference checks