Senior Software Engineer, Hummingbird
Unified risk & compliance operations
Posted today
Unified risk & compliance operations
101-200 employees
Posted today
101-200 employees
Company mission
To fight financial crime using better communications and technology.
Role
Who you are
- We do our best to write inclusive, descriptive and accurate job descriptions, but we’re not always perfect. If you’re interested in the role, we’d love to hear from you even if you don’t feel like you meet everything we’re looking for. We’re always iterating and improving, and it’s possible that your experience is even more impactful than we could have imagined
- We’re looking for someone who’s curious, collaborative, and motivated by impact—someone who thrives in the messy middle of hard problems and helps bring clarity and direction to the team. If you’re excited to use AI and data to make the world’s financial systems safer and more transparent, we’d love to meet you
- Experience that matters. You’ve shipped 0-1 products to real users (ideally AI products!) and are excited to keep pushing the boundaries of what’s possible
- Safety first. You care deeply about quality, testing, and security—because trust and reliability are non-negotiable foundations of scalable systems
- Curiosity and creativity. You love learning new technologies, exploring unfamiliar domains, and turning complex ideas into elegant, understandable solutions
- Purpose-driven builder. You want to use your technical skills to create something meaningful—AI that helps make the world’s financial systems safer and more transparent
- Strong engineering fundamentals. You bring solid backend experience, data fluency, and operational maturity to every project
- Iterative mindset. You enjoy refining ideas, incorporating feedback, and improving through collaboration
- Product intuition and communication. You think beyond code, partnering effectively with Product and Design to build features that delight and empower users
- Bonus points for: Experience with OpenSearch or other vector databases, Snowflake, evaluation frameworks like Langfuse, or familiarity with fintech and compliance domains
What the job involves
- At Hummingbird, we’re building better software to fight financial crime—and our engineering team makes that mission possible
- As a Senior Software Engineer on the Cortex Team, you’ll play a key role in driving AI at Hummingbird. You’ll design and deliver customer-facing AI features that make complex work more intuitive and efficient, and iterate on existing features, like our context-aware AI Assistant and Review Agent
- In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with Product, Design, and other engineers to bring ideas to life—from prototyping to production
- You’ll balance thoughtful model and tool selection with sound engineering principles, ensuring our systems are scalable, secure, and auditable. The projects you’ll take on are often ambitious and open-ended, and you’ll have the trust and autonomy to drive them from concept to completion
- Build AI features end-to-end. You’ll design, implement, and ship features that bring great user experiences to life —with a strong focus on measurement, observability, and real-world performance
- Scale for impact. You’ll architect and deliver systems that handle high data volumes and complex workflows with reliability and speed, ensuring our AI features are as resilient and efficient as they are powerful
- Enhance trust and transparency. You’ll improve grounding quality with permission-safe retrieval, citations, and evaluations that make AI outputs auditable and dependable
- Optimize for experience. You’ll drive latency and cost improvements where they matter most—creating fast, seamless interactions for our users
- Shape the product and strategy. You’ll collaborate closely with Product and Design from discovery through iteration, helping define what AI can do for our customers. Great ideas come from everywhere, and your voice will help shape where we go next
- Technologies we use and teach:
- AWS, Azure, PostgreSQL, Redis
- Terraform, CircleCI, Nix, Docker
- Ruby/Rails, Python
- OpenAI
- React, JavaScript, TypeScript, GraphQL, d3
Our take
Hummingbird is an anti-money laundering (AML) platform designed to make it easier for financial companies to identify, track, and report suspicious activity. Up to $2 trillion is laundered every year across the world, and less than 1% of this laundering is caught by compliance teams; Hummingbird is hoping that its software can change this.
The company is led by co-founders with backgrounds in risk, data science, software engineering, and digital payments, so it's not hard to see where its expertise comes from. Not satisfied with the results that firms achieve using spreadsheets and other traditional tools, Hummingbird offers an automated solution to compliance and AML.
What makes Hummingbird stand out from competitors is its simplicity and ease of use: it's the only AML platform that allows customers to get started without setting up initial integrations. One of Hummingbird's biggest challenges will be ensuring its software can keep on top of emerging money-laundering technologies designed to get around platforms just like this one.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2021
$30m
SERIES B
Jul 2020
$8.2m
SERIES A
Total funding: $41.2m
Company benefits
- Competitive compensation: including cash and equity.
- 401k plan: Easily save for retirement with tax advantages.
- Flexible health coverage: Including health, dental, and vision.
- Monthly stipends: Enjoy a monthly health & wellness stipend, fueling the activities that bring you joy.
- Flexible work arrangements: Enjoy a remote-first workplace, home office stipend, and supportive work environment.
- Mental & reproductive health: We reimburse expenses related to mental and reproductive health.
- Safe and inclusive workplace: We strive to make Hummingbird a positive and supportive place to work.
- Team onsites: We're remote-first, but we make sure we make time to get togethe and have fun.
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Joe Robinson
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Hummingbird in 2017, Joe worked in Product Management & Prototyping Consultant at IDEO.org. He also worked as a VP of Products, Risk & Data Science at Circle and as a Senior Product Manager at Square.
Jesse Reiss
(Co-Founder & CTO)Jesse previously spent over 5 years at Square as a Director of Engineering. He also co-founded Spot where he served as a Software Engineer for just over a year.
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