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Senior Software Engineer, Platform/Backend

SentiLinkUnited StatesPosted Aug 27, 2026
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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.

About the Opportunity:

As a Senior Software Engineer at SentiLink, you will build and enhance an API platform that powers our products. You will work with product, engineering, and security teams across the company to deploy the features and underlying systems to make our products scalable, maintainable, and extremely secure. You have outstanding programming skills, you are proficient in our technology stack, and you can pick up new technologies quickly as we evolve.

This is a remote, US-based role.

Technologies:

Golang, Python, PostgreSQL (RDS), OpenSearch, Docker, AWS technologies (Lambda, Cognito and other standard technologies).

Responsibilities:

  • You are the owner of one large section of our codebase

  • Lead the technical direction provide guidance and set the technical direction for our team, ensuring alignment with project goals and industry best practices

  • Design and build a suite of API-based decisioning products

  • Code, test, debug, document, and maintain products and platform using established coding standards and methodologies

  • Partner with product management to drive agile delivery of both existing and new products based on project requirements.

  • Ensure new software meets quality standards by writing unit, dependency, integration and end-to-end automated tests

  • Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve product issues as they arise

  • Ensure platform and services meet SLA requirements; on call rotation for production issues, along with the rest of engineering

Requirements:

  • 6+ years of software development experience building enterprise or consumer facing products

  • Experience with building API based products using Python, Golang, or similar technologies

  • Excellent analytical and problem solving skills, interpersonal skills, and a sense of humor (enjoy the journey)

  • Familiarity with: RDBMS (e.g. postgres) and ability to write efficient queries with optimal structures; Docker and AWS technologies; fintech or financial services; scrum / agile development environment

  • Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must live in the United States

Compensation:

  • $170,000/year - $230,000/year + equity + benefits

Note: This salary range may be inclusive of multiple career levels, and the actual base salary within that range will be determined by several components including but not limited to the individual's experience, skills, and qualifications.

Perks:

  • 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!

Corporate Values:

  • Follow Through

  • Deep Understanding

  • Whatever It Takes

  • Do Something Smart

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