Senior Software Engineer, Identity & Regulatory Platform

The role

You will build the AI-enabled trust layer for financial institutions to adopt blockchain safely. You will own the customer journey from onboarding to activation and design backend services for identity verification and compliance.

What you will do

• Own the customer journey from lead to onboarding to activation
• Instrument the onboarding funnel and run experiments to 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
• Own integrations with third-party identity and screening vendors
• Build data-privacy capabilities into the platform
• Write design docs, lead technical decisions, mentor teammates and take part in on-call

Required qualifications

• 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
• Comfortable turning ambiguous requirements from non-engineering stakeholders into clear technical plans
• Use AI tools daily to work faster and better

Nice to have

• Go strongly preferred
• identity, KYC/AML or onboarding systems
• growth engineering or experimentation
• building LLM features into production
• Persona or similar vendors

About the company

Paxos is rebuilding financial infrastructure to enable the instant movement of any asset. They build blockchain infrastructure that tokenizes, custodies, trades and settles assets for leading financial institutions.