Software Engineer, Platform
$168k - $213k USD
About Bretton AI
Bretton 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
$168k - $213k 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.