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SentiLink

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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Remote
170K-200K
Senior level
Remote
170K-200K
Senior level
As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll lead technical direction, develop and enhance API products, ensure software quality, and analyze product metrics.
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SentiLink provides innovative identity and risk solutions, empowering institutions and individuals to transact confidently with one another.

 

By building the future of identity verification in the United States and reinventing the currently clunky, ineffective, and expensive process, we believe strongly that the future will be 10x better.

 

We’ve had tremendous traction and are growing extremely quickly. Already our real-time APIs have helped verify hundreds of millions of identities, beginning with financial services. In 2021, we raised a $70M Series B round, led by Craft Ventures to rapidly scale our best in class products. We’ve earned coverage and awards from TechCrunch, CNBC, Bloomberg, Forbes, Business Insider, PYMNTS, American Banker, LendIt, and have landed on the Forbes Fintech 50 in 2023 and 2024. Last but not least, we’ve even been a part of history -- we were the first company to go live with the eCBSV and testified before the United States House of Representatives.

Role:

As a Sr Software Engineer at SentiLink, you will be responsible for our applications and its platform. You will work with the product and engineering team to build new products and enhance our existing suite of products. You have outstanding programming skills, you are proficient in our technology stack, and you can pick up new technologies quickly as we evolve. 

Technologies: Golang, Python,  PostgreSQL (RDS), Docker, AWS technologies

This is a remote, US-based role.

Responsibilities:

  • 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
  • Code, test, debug, document, and maintain software applications using established coding standards and methodologies
  • Design and build a suite of API-based decisioning products 
  • 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 and end-to-end automated tests
  • Work with product, data, and other stakeholders to analyze usage and product metrics to inform key strategic decisions
  • Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve product issues as they arise
  • Work cross functionally to resolve complex customer problems
  • Ensure platform and services meet SLA requirements; on call rotation for production issues, along with the rest of engineering

Requirements:

  • 5+ 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

Salary Range:

  • $170,000/year - $200,000/year

 

Perks:
  • 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!

Corporate Values:

  • Follow Through
  • Deep Understanding
  • Whatever It Takes
  • Do Something Smart

Top Skills

AWS
Docker
Go
Postgres
Python

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