Sardine
Senior Software Engineer, Backend - KYC
Canada, Remote. Posted 24 days ago
The role
You will design, construct, and maintain APIs, services, and systems. This role involves developing new features on a large scale and refining internal tooling and processes.
What you will do
- Design, create, and maintain robust, efficient, and reliable backend services.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to architect and implement new services.
- Contribute to developing new features and capabilities.
- Work with engineering and product teams to deliver solutions.
- Craft and maintain user-facing technical documentation.
- Shape company engineering culture and maintain high engineering standards.
Required qualifications
- 7+ years of proven experience as a Software Engineer specializing in web backend development.
- Track record of successfully delivering high-quality production services and systems.
- Customer-centric approach with a strong emphasis on empathy towards users.
- Relevant industry experience, particularly in banking or fintech, and domain knowledge in fraud prevention or compliance.
- Proficient in English
Nice to have
- Proficiency in Golang is a significant advantage.
- Additional experience in data engineering is highly desirable.
Benefits
- Generous compensation in cash and equity
- Early exercise for all options, including pre-vested
- Work from anywhere: Remote-first Culture
- Flexible paid time off and Year-end break
- Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents - US and Canada specific
- 4% matching in 401k / RRSP - US and Canada specific
- MacBook Pro delivered to your door
- One-time stipend to set up a home office — desk, chair, screen, etc.
- Monthly meal stipend
- Monthly social meet-up stipend
- Annual health and wellness stipend
- Annual Learning stipend
About the company
Sardine is the leading agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime. Their integrated solution unifies data across risk teams to help organizations stop fraud in real time, prevent AI-driven attacks, and automate fraud and AML operations.