Jobs at Augustus

Supports the CFO across accounting and finance, including accounts payable and receivable, monthly close, general ledger reconciliations, budgeting, forecasting, audit, board reporting, investor reporting, and regulatory reporting. The role begins with hands-on finance operations, then leads automation and process improvement projects using AI and engineering partnerships. Over time, the associate will analyze new products and geographies and build scalable, low-manual-work finance processes.

Own Augustus’s US corporate legal function, including governance, financings, equity plans, cap table management, entity structure, regulatory filings, M&A, strategic investments, partnerships, and legal process systems. The role partners with founders, Finance, People, outside counsel, and senior legal leadership while operating independently in a rapidly growing fintech banking startup.

Four-month internship rotating through CEO Office, Growth, Product, Operations, or Talent, with three months in Berlin and one month in New York. Interns own operational work and larger cross-functional projects, using AI tools and workflow automation while collaborating with senior leaders, partners, and candidates. The role suits proactive, adaptable candidates comfortable with ambiguity, high-growth environments, and hands-on execution.

Owns customer due diligence from onboarding through periodic and event-driven reviews. Performs CIP, CDD, EDD, beneficial ownership analysis, risk rating, and high-risk case preparation. Improves automated review-agent prompts and partners with Engineering and Product to streamline compliant onboarding. Handles complex ownership structures, FBO relationships, exceptions, and high-risk customers while documenting defensible decisions.

Own US commercial and product legal work for a fintech bank, advising on product development, structuring, risk, disclosures, and regulatory requirements. Lead negotiations with enterprise clients, partners, and vendors; manage contracting templates, playbooks, fallback positions, and approvals; and review marketing and sales materials for compliance. Partner with Product, Sales, Marketing, and Compliance to build scalable legal systems that accelerate deal execution.

Engineering Fellowships own end-to-end special projects across engineering, product, and company operations. Fellows identify problems, design solutions, build working software, gather feedback, drive adoption, and progressively take on more complex work with increasing independence. The role values curiosity, ownership, rapid learning, communication, and follow-through. Fellows must be available for 3–6 months, work in person in Berlin or relocate, and demonstrate software-building ability through projects, open-source work, or prior experience.

Manages counterparty and credit risk for banking-as-a-service relationships, partnerships, and future credit products. Responsibilities include client inventory reconciliation, onboarding, initial and ongoing due diligence, fourth-party reviews, cross-functional SME coordination, and development of credit, concentration, liquidity, and other financial risk metrics. The role owns risk monitoring, reporting, counterparty reviews, and risk assessments for new products and services in a fast-paced fintech banking environment.

Own the Banking Experience product: accounts (DDAs, FBOs, virtual accounts), API, dashboard, IAM, and end-to-end customer experience. Work with design, engineering, and customers to build effortless account setup, developer-friendly APIs, and a fast, polished dashboard in a regulated fintech environment. Operate autonomously on roadmap, ship quickly, and iterate with early adopters.

Review and clear financial crime transaction-monitoring alerts, escalate cases, conduct investigations, and eventually prepare SAR filings. Analyze trends and false positives, recommend monitoring rule adjustments, draft investigation guidance, maintain metrics and reports, and support BSA/AML risk and compliance workstreams. The analyst will help build and improve the bank’s financial crimes compliance engine through analytical and automated processes.

Owns end-to-end security engineering across applications, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and incident response. The role involves implementing SSDLC controls, building AI-assisted security review and remediation workflows, hardening workload identity and secrets management, improving logging and dependency monitoring, and driving measurable risk reduction. The engineer will partner with product and platform teams, ship production security automation, lead incident response, and provide control evidence in a regulated fintech environment.

Own day-to-day third-party risk management operations, including vendor inventory reconciliation, onboarding, due diligence, SME reviews, audit oversight, BCDR assessments, fourth-party reviews, SLA monitoring, DDQs, and issue remediation. The role coordinates stakeholders across multiple functions, maintains accurate documentation and reporting, and improves TPRM processes and controls.

Work as an early backend software engineer on core banking systems for a stablecoin-native clearing bank. Own end-to-end projects, design reliable systems integrating bare-metal and blockchain infrastructure, collaborate with product and clients, and drive technical decisions in a small, high-ownership team.

Own and run a core operational domain end-to-end: define SOPs, KPIs, tooling, and automations/agents. Start by executing manual workflows, ship production automation, collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Compliance, and scale systems to reduce headcount while managing high-risk decisions.