Senior Software Engineer, Hummingbird
+ Cash & Equity
Anti-money laundering tools
Open for applications
Anti-money laundering tools
101-200 employees
Open for applications
+ Cash & Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To fight financial crime using better communications and technology.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of experience building web applications, preferably with some startup experience
- Experience building transaction monitoring tools, or similarly high-volume, data-intensive products
- You love building web applications and want to work on something meaningful
- You sail through ambiguity and enjoy exploring product ideas that anticipate scaling challenges
- Iteration is part of the fun. You’re not married to specific ideas or solutions
- Design is important to you
- You want your impact to go beyond the lines of code you write
- Safety first. You care about quality, testing, and security, recognizing that these are essential foundations for scalable systems
- You like digging deeply into new technologies, new domains, or new ideas
- You want to build something exceptionally valuable and have real impact on the world. You're excited to get your hands dirty in pursuit of that goal
- (Bonus) Experience in the financial sector, especially around compliance or fraud
What the job involves
- As employees at a small startup, software engineers at Hummingbird have the opportunity to wear many hats and learn and grow across a multitude of dimensions
- Senior engineers are technology leaders on our engineering team. They take on large, ambitious, often ambiguous projects and drive them to completion
- They coordinate the work of other members of the Hummingbird team, interact directly with customers, and act as examples to the rest of the team
- Write code to fight financial crime: First and foremost, our software engineers use their skills to serve our shared mission. You'll build easy-to-use tools that help our customers utilize data and leverage automations to identify and address suspicious activities
- Build highly scalable, performant products: You'll play an outsized role in architecting and delivering solutions that scale to seamlessly handle high data volumes and complex workflows. You'll focus on building resilient, efficient, and maintainable systems to support our user's needs
- Work with a small, passionate, and experienced team: We're a small team of mostly senior engineers and we love to do great work together. We're fully remote, but we make a strong effort to prioritize, design, and code collaboratively
- Tackle the challenges of working in a high-security, high-stakes environment: We work with some of the most sensitive data you can imagine and provide a critical service to our customers. Security, reliability, and correctness must always come first
- Influence the product roadmap and strategy: Great ideas come from everywhere. Everyone on the team has a voice in strategy discussions and is trusted to make significant decisions
- Have the opportunity to grow into leadership: Hummingbird is growing rapidly. As we do, there will be opportunities for engineers to take on new roles in product, technology, or people leadership positions
- Technologies we use and teach:
- Ruby/Rails
- React, JavaScript, TypeScript
- AWS, PostgreSQL, Redis
- Terraform
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 their 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 such as Lucinity 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
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
41% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2021
$30m
SERIES B
Jul 2020
$8.2m
SERIES A
Total funding: $41.2m
Company benefits
- Flexible health/vision/dental coverage
- 401k plan
- Donation matching to non-profits aligned with our mission
- Modern tech setup
- Remote first with periodic team get‑togethers
- A safe, respectful, and comfortable workplace
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Jesse Reiss
(CTO)Former Director of Engineering at Square and Software Engineer at WonderHill.
Joe Robinson
(CEO)Founder & Producer at Designers and Geeks. Former Vice President of Risk and Data Science at Circle.
Matthew Van Buskirk
(CEO Regulatory)Former Member of the Board of Advisors at AIR and Director of Compliance and Regulatory Affairs at Circle.
Ryan Gerard
(Principal Engineer)Was previously Engineering Lead at Square and Co-founder & CEO of Pickmoto.
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