Senior Software Engineer Platform/Backend

SentiLink provides innovative identity and risk solutions empowering institutions and individuals to transaction with confidence. We’re building the future of identity verification in the United States replacing a clunky ineffective and expensive status quo with solutions that are 10x faster smarter and more accurate.

We’ve seen tremendous traction and are growing extremely quickly. Our real-time APIs have helped verify hundreds of millions of identities starting with financial services and rapidly expanding into new markets. SentiLink is backed by world-class investors including Craft Ventures Andreessen Horowitz NYCA and Max Levchin.

We’ve earned recognition from TechCrunch CNBC Bloomberg Forbes Business Insider PYMNTS American Banker LendIt and have been named to the Forbes Fintech 50. We have also been named a 2026 FICO Industry Vanguard Decision Award Winner. Last but not least we’ve even made history - we were the first company to go live with the eCBSV and testified before the United States House of Representatives on the future of identity.

SentiLink supports a variety of ways to work ranging from fully remote to in-office. We operate as a digital-first company with strong collaboration across the U.S. and India. We maintain physical offices in Austin San Francisco New York City Seattle Los Angeles and Chicago in the U.S. and in Gurugram (Delhi) and Bengaluru in India. If you’re located near one of these offices we would love for you to spend time in the office regularly. Some roles are hybrid or in-office by design. For example our engineering team in India works primarily from our Gurugram office.

As a Senior Software Engineer at SentiLink you will build and enhance an API platform that powers our products. You will work with product engineering and security teams across the company to deploy the features and underlying systems to make our products scalable maintainable and extremely secure. You have outstanding programming skills you are proficient in our technology stack and you can pick up new technologies quickly as we evolve.

This is a remote US-based role.

Golang Python PostgreSQL (RDS) OpenSearch Docker AWS technologies (Lambda Cognito and other standard technologies).

• You are the owner of one large section of our codebase

• Lead the technical direction provide guidance and set the technical direction for our team ensuring alignment with project goals and industry best practices

• Design and build a suite of API-based decisioning products

• Code test debug document and maintain products and platform using established coding standards and methodologies

• Partner with product management to drive agile delivery of both existing and new products based on project requirements.

• Ensure new software meets quality standards by writing unit dependency integration and end-to-end automated tests

• Troubleshoot debug and resolve product issues as they arise

• Ensure platform and services meet SLA requirements; on call rotation for production issues along with the rest of engineering

• 6+ years of software development experience building enterprise or consumer facing products

• Experience with building API based products using Python Golang or similar technologies

• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills interpersonal skills and a sense of humor (enjoy the journey)

• Familiarity with: RDBMS (e.g. postgres) and ability to write efficient queries with optimal structures; Docker and AWS technologies; fintech or financial services; scrum / agile development environment

• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must live in the United States

• $170000/year - $240000/year + equity + benefits

• Employer paid group health insurance for you and your dependents

• 401(k) plan with employer match (or equivalent for non US-based roles)

• Flexible paid time off

• Regular company-wide in-person events

• Home office stipend and more!

• Follow Through

• Deep Understanding

• Whatever It Takes

• Do Something Smart

What We Do

SentiLink is the leading fraud intelligence company providing financial institutions and fintechs with purpose-built solutions for identity verification and fraud prevention. Our products detect synthetic fraud identity theft and hard-to-detect first-party fraud in real time — helping partners stop losses before they happen while approving more legitimate customers.Founded in 2017 by Naftali Harris and Max Blumenfeld creators of the risk and fraud systems at Affirm SentiLink was built on a simple premise: to truly stop fraud you have to deeply understand it. That belief shapes everything from the expert human intelligence that feeds our models to the way we work with our partners. We don't call them clients or customers we call them partners because that's genuinely how we think of them.Today SentiLink processes 3M+ identity verifications per day for 500+ financial institutions including 13 of the top 15 U.S. banks and 50+ fintech unicorns. We've raised $85M from investors including Andreessen Horowitz Craft Ventures and NYCA Partners.

Why Work With Us

At SentiLink deep understanding isn't just a value it's a company-wide expectation. For example our Revenue Accounting Manager can walk you through SSN windows. That's not an exception; that's the norm. You'll collaborate closely move fast and do work that genuinely matters.

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