SentiLink provides innovative identity and risk solutions, empowering institutions and individuals to transact with confidence. We’re building the future of identity verification in the United States replacing a clunky, ineffective, and expensive status quo with solutions that are 10x faster, smarter, and more accurate.
We’ve seen tremendous traction and are growing extremely quickly. Our real-time APIs have helped verify hundreds of millions of identities, starting with financial services and rapidly expanding into new markets. SentiLink is backed by world-class investors including Craft Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, NYCA, and Max Levchin.
We’ve earned recognition from TechCrunch, CNBC, Bloomberg, Forbes, Business Insider, PYMNTS, American Banker, LendIt, and have been named to the Forbes Fintech 50. We have also been named a 2026 FICO Industry Vanguard Decision Award Winner. Last but not least, we’ve even made history - we were the first company to go live with the eCBSV and testified before the United States House of Representatives on the future of identity.
SentiLink supports a variety of ways to work, ranging from fully remote to in-office. We operate as a digital-first company with strong collaboration across the U.S. and India. We maintain physical offices in Austin, San Francisco, New York City, Seattle (Bellevue), Los Angeles, and Chicago in the U.S., and in Gurugram (Delhi) and Bengaluru in India. If you’re located near one of these offices, we would love for you to spend time in the office regularly. Some roles are hybrid or in-office by design. For example, our engineering team in India works primarily from our Gurugram office.
We’re looking for a leader with a technical background and deep understanding of data to build SentiLink’s identity resolution suite, including prefill, identity completion, and pinning. As part of this scope you will also be responsible for our underlying data merging and keying and linking technology and processes.
In this role, you will partner with teams across the company to understand how internal systems and datasets are used today and what they must support as we scale. You will translate varied internal needs into clear product requirements, prioritize improvements, and drive delivery from concept through adoption.
Own the product vision, roadmap, and execution for internal technical initiatives, with a strong focus on data‐intensive systems and foundational datasets.
Lead cross-functional efforts to improve the quality, reliability, and usability of internal systems, including datasets, shared services, and internal platforms.
Drive long-term initiatives to future-proof internal data and technology assets, ensuring they scale with evolving product, analytics, and operational needs.
Partner with engineering, data science, solutions analytics, and product stakeholders to understand use cases, clarify requirements, and identify interdependencies.
Manage prioritization across competing internal demands, balancing immediate impact with long-term strategic value.
Translate complex internal needs into clear, actionable specifications and ensure alignment across teams.
Apply structured project management to initiatives with multiple teams, ambiguous problem spaces, and intricate technical dependencies.
Define and track success metrics for internal systems and datasets, such as quality, completeness, latency, reliability, and stakeholder satisfaction.
Communicate roadmap, progress, risks, and tradeoffs to internal stakeholders at all levels.
5+ years of experience with data-heavy or platform-oriented products, with a focus on data platform.
Hands-on experience working with large datasets, ideally in distributed or big-data environments (e.g., Spark, Databricks, BigQuery, Snowflake, similar).
Strong understanding of big data concepts, data pipelines, data cleaning/normalization, and data modeling.
Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with engineering, data science, and analytics teams on deeply technical problem spaces.
Experience driving large internal initiatives with multiple stakeholders and managing substantial cross-functional dependencies.
Proven ability to structure ambiguous requirements, prioritize effectively, and deliver predictable execution on complex technical programs.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to diverse audiences and facilitate alignment across teams.
A forward-looking, durability-focused mindset—ensuring internal systems and datasets are built for scale, maintainability, and long-term adaptability.
$180,000/year - $230,000/year + equity + benefits
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!
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Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience with data-heavy or platform-oriented products, focused on data platforms
- Hands-on experience working with large datasets
- Experience with distributed or big-data environments such as Spark, Databricks, BigQuery, Snowflake, or similar
- Strong understanding of big data concepts, data pipelines, data cleaning and normalization, and data modeling
- Ability to partner effectively with engineering, data science, and analytics teams on deeply technical problems
- Experience driving large internal initiatives with multiple stakeholders and substantial cross-functional dependencies
- Ability to structure ambiguous requirements, prioritize effectively, and deliver predictable execution on complex technical programs
- Excellent communication skills, including explaining technical concepts to diverse audiences and facilitating alignment
- Forward-looking, durability-focused mindset oriented toward scalable, maintainable, and adaptable systems and datasets
SentiLink Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as fully employer‑paid for medical, dental, and vision for employees and dependents, which is unusually generous. Mental health support, FSAs, and fertility benefits are also highlighted across public materials.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) with employer match, repeatedly cited in job postings and employer profiles. This provides meaningful long‑term savings support alongside base pay and equity.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is characterized as unlimited or flexible PTO with wellness days, plus paid holidays and sick time. Remote‑friendly flexibility and home‑office stipends further reinforce overall time‑off usability.
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What We Do
SentiLink is the leading fraud intelligence company, providing financial institutions and fintechs with purpose-built solutions for identity verification and fraud prevention. Our products detect synthetic fraud, identity theft, and hard-to-detect first-party fraud in real time — helping partners stop losses before they happen while approving more legitimate customers. Founded in 2017 by Naftali Harris and Max Blumenfeld, creators of the risk and fraud systems at Affirm, SentiLink was built on a simple premise: to truly stop fraud, you have to deeply understand it. That belief shapes everything, from the expert human intelligence that feeds our models to the way we work with our partners. We don't call them clients or customers, we call them partners, because that's genuinely how we think of them. Today, SentiLink processes 3M+ identity verifications per day for 500+ financial institutions, including 13 of the top 15 U.S. banks and 50+ fintech unicorns. We've raised $85M from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Craft Ventures, and NYCA Partners.
Why Work With Us
At SentiLink, deep understanding isn't just a value, it's a company-wide expectation. For example, our Revenue Accounting Manager can walk you through SSN windows. That's not an exception; that's the norm. You'll collaborate closely, move fast, and do work that genuinely matters.
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Employees work remotely.
SentiLink supports a variety of ways to work, ranging from fully remote to in-office. We have offices in multiple cities and if you’re located near one of these offices, we would love for you to spend time in the office regularly.
