About Flagright:
Flagright is an AI operating system for financial crime compliance used globally by Fortune 500 companies, large banks, fintechs, and fast growing startups. Flagright enables real-time risk detection, automated investigations, and intelligent decisioning, helping compliance teams operate at their full potential in the fight against financial crime.
We operate as a lean, high-performance team with high individual ownership and direct access to leadership.
Role overview:
This is a unique opportunity to learn from seasoned technologists, help share trends in Fintech, dabble in the latest data and AI technologies, and bring to market an exciting first-of-its-kind product. We have a very open and transparent culture, so you will also have the opportunity to contribute to any aspect of the business. Nothing here is beyond your reach.
What you’ll need:
We are looking for developers with a penchant for building fast prototypes to launch to real customers and iteratively improve the product working closely with the founders and customers. So, you ideally have an entrepreneurial mindset or want to learn what it takes to work in an early-stage startup.
At least 6 years of relevant experience writing code, building and maintaining systems in a high-scale production environment, and have driven one or more projects independently from design through implementation and maintenance is required. If you do not meet this criterion, please do not apply.
Responsibilities:
Solve complex engineering problems at a fast pace.
Deliver high-quality frontend & backend code against tight deadlines.
Collaborate closely with the founding team to deliver robust and comprehensive interfaces to core compliance and anti-fraud financial primitives.
Make pragmatic tradeoffs considering customer experience, business priorities and a sustainable technical baseline.
Own and drive changes that increase the productivity of customers working on frontend applications and the efficiency and reliability of our API.
Work with your teammates to own and innovate on the development experience.
Collaborate closely with the founding team and designers to deliver a great experience for people using your team’s products.
Influence the direction of Flagright’s platform, services, and engineering culture.
Hide complexity from our users behind simple, yet powerful abstractions.
Requirements:
Interest in building software systems from scratch - we care much more about general engineering skills than knowledge of a particular language or framework.
Pride in owning projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems.
A high standard of themselves and the people they work with.
Acute interest in taking ownership of technical design, implementation, and results.
Strong and transparent communication skills.
Problem-solving mindset - sees a problem as an opportunity to grow and is motivated to find solutions, thereby focusing on growth and achieving positive results.
Tech Stack:
Distributed NoSQL Datastores - Cassandra/DynamoDB, MongoDB
Event brokers and Queues - Kafka, Kinesis, SQS
Node.js, TypeScript, Go, Scala
Docker Containers
AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Fargate
Apache Spark
Benefits:
Work alongside a highly competent, top-tier team, including professionals from Y Combinator, ex AWS, and Palantir.
Great career development opportunities in a fast-growing company.
Low bureaucracy, minimal meetings, async communications culture, and flat structure.
Significant equity option package at a YC-backed startup.
You’ll be paid at the top of your market level.
30 days of paid leave per year.
Fast moving, challenging, and unique business problems.
Do something meaningful, help stop human trafficking, money laundering, child labor; be a part of enabling the future of fintech startups.
About the interview:
First interview with Madhu Nadig, Co-founder & CTO - 30 mins - This step is aimed to get to know each other, tell you more about the position and align expectations.
Second interview with Flagright Engineers - 1 hour - Live technical task
Third interview with Flagright Engineers - 1 hour - Live technical task
Fourth interview with Madhu Nadig, Co-founder & CTO - 1 hour - Systems Design
Fifth interview with Harish Mycharla, Founding Product Designer - 1 hour - Culture fit interview
Sixth interview with Baran Ozkan, Co-founder & CEO - 30 mins - Bar Raiser
Reference checks
Top Skills
What We Do
Flagright sets the modern standard for AI-native transaction monitoring. The platform enables financial institutions to centralize detection, investigation, and reporting of suspicious activity, streamlining regulatory workflows and strengthening financial crime controls. A high-performance, no-code scenario builder with sub-second API response times powers real-time monitoring, supported by tailored rules, dynamic risk profiling, and simulation tools that reduce false positives and improve decision accuracy. This transaction monitoring foundation is enhanced by fully integrated AML screening that links each transaction and entity to global sanctions and watchlists; dynamic risk scoring that embeds behavioural and contextual risk directly into detection logic; and centralized case management that automates alert triage, investigation workflows, and SAR filing, maintaining audit-readiness across jurisdictions. Flagright’s AI Forensics suite strengthens compliance operations across four critical areas: screening (reduces false positives in AML checks), monitoring (augments alert investigation capabilities), quality assurance (accelerates QA processes), and governance (simplifies policy management and regulatory compliance). Financial institutions moving from fragmented tools to Flagright report a 93% reduction in false positives, 80% lower compliance costs, and a 27% drop in operational errors, with implementation typically completed within weeks. With customers across six continents and offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore, and Germany, Flagright delivers a transaction monitoring solution that scales with growth and adapts to evolving threats.
