Greenlite
AI agents for financial compliance
Software Engineer, Platform
About the role
About Greenlite AI
Greenlite AI is the leading AI agent platform for financial services. Companies like Mercury, Gusto and multiple U.S. banks trust us to automate mission critical work, starting with anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism investigations.
We’ve raised over $20M from Greylock, Y Combinator, Thomson Reuters Ventures and other top tier investors. We’re based in downtown San Francisco and our team comes from world-class organizations like SpaceX, Google, Netflix, Stripe, Plaid and more.
The Role
We’re hiring Platform Engineers who build and operate the infrastructure that powers compliance at scale.
You’ll own reliability, performance, and scalability across core systems: design Postgres schemas, optimize queries, build high-throughput services, orchestrate long-running workflows (Temporal), and keep us at 99.9%+ uptime for customers processing thousands of cases per day.
You’ll write production backend code, design distributed systems, and own the infra that lets product teams ship fast without breaking prod.
What You’ll Do
- Build APIs and services handling thousands of concurrent requests
- Architect ingestion → assessment → delivery pipelines for cases
- Implement Temporal workflows for long-running, stateful processes
- Design and optimize PostgreSQL schemas and queries for compliance workflows
- Own CI/CD, deployments, and infrastructure-as-code, Drive observability: logging, tracing, metrics.
- Debug slow queries, memory leaks, race conditions
What We’re Looking For
Must-Haves
- 4+ yrs (Engineer) / 6+ yrs (Sr. Engineer) / 8+ yrs (Staff Engineer) backend or infra experience
- Strong systems fundamentals: distributed systems, databases, APIs, concurrency
- Proven production experience: debugging live systems, incident response, on-call
- PostgreSQL expertise: query optimization, indexing, schema design, migrations
- Ownership mindset: you close the loop, write postmortems, prevent recurrence
Technical Skills
- Languages: TypeScript/Node.js (primary), SQL (advanced), Python (nice to have)
- Databases: PostgreSQL/Supabase, RLS, query planning
- Workflow: Temporal (preferred) or Airflow/Prefect/Cadence
- Cloud/Infra: AWS/GCP/Azure (we use Render.com on AWS), Docker, CI/CD (GitHub Actions)
- Monitoring: Datadog (or Grafana/Prometheus/New Relic/Sentry)
Bonus
- Fintech/RegTech experience (security, audit logging)
- AI/LLM infra (prompt orchestration, token limits, cost mgmt)
- High-throughput systems; chaos/resilience testing
- VPC architecture and cloud networking (security groups, private endpoints, compliance requirements)
About you
You're motivated by joining a startup at our stage because you want to build something fast and have direct impact—not because you need extensive structure. You're energized by combining technical work with customer interaction. You love solving open-ended problems, asking good questions, and structuring solutions without needing perfect specifications upfront.
You make pragmatic decisions with incomplete information and proactively pull in the right people to overcome blockers. You're adaptable when priorities shift and have a growth mindset. You understand the broader system you're working in—not just what the AI does, but how it fits into the customer's full workflow.
Compensation & Benefits
- $160k–$280K base salary + meaningful equity
- Comprehensive healthcare, 401k matching, commuter benefits
- 15 days PTO + holidays, unlimited sick days
- Flexible leave options
- Working late? We cover DoorDash and Uber home
Join us in building AI that protects the global financial system from financial crimes that fund terrorism and human trafficking.
About Greenlite
We work in-person at our San Francisco office five days a week, believing the best ideas and fastest learning happen through side-by-side collaboration. We challenge each other daily and build innovative products together.
Greenlite builds AI agents that help financial services companies manage risk and compliance and fight financial crime. We serve major clients like Ramp, Mercury, and other major U.S. financial institutions, helping them grow while maintaining financial system integrity. Backed by Greylock, Y Combinator, and Thomson Reuters, we're among the fastest-growing AI companies globally.
We value people who:
Take action quickly, learning by doing rather than seeking perfection
Think boldly to reimagine financial services
Deeply understand customer needs to build elegant solutions
Show potential and continuous growth, not just experience
We've brought together exceptional builders from Palantir, SpaceX, Stripe, Airbnb, Meta, Uber, and Databricks to tackle financial system challenges. Our AI agents fight financial crime by automating suspicious activity investigations, entity due diligence, and regulatory reporting, helping banks and fintechs protect the integrity of the global financial system.
Our team combines technical excellence with practical problem-solving, low-ego collaboration, relentless curiosity, and autonomous work. We're seeking diverse perspectives that elevate our collective capabilities. Greenlite is an equal opportunity employer welcoming applicants from all backgrounds.
