Full Stack Engineer - KYC Tech (fully remote!)

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable backend services and APIs supporting KYC verification, identity authentication, and compliance workflows.
• Lead the architecture and implementation of high-performance distributed systems capable of processing millions of global user verification requests.
• Build and optimise risk assessment pipelines and case management systems supporting compliance operations.
• Develop and maintain internal tooling and dashboards using React and TypeScript when needed, with a primary focus on backend engineering.
• Design and build RESTful APIs and microservices that integrate with third-party KYC/AML vendors and internal data sources.
• Contribute to architecture and technical design decisions, with emphasis on backend, data processing, AI integration and security.
• Improve system reliability, performance, observability and engineering efficiency through automation and best practices.
• Contribute to architecture and technical design decisions, with emphasis on backend, data processing and security.
• Write clean, maintainable and well-tested code while conducting thoughtful code reviews.
• Continuously optimise system performance, scalability, throughput and developer experience.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related discipline.

• 3+ years of professional software development experience with a strong backend focus.

• Solid backend development experience with Java (Spring Boot), Go, or similar backend technologies.

• Experience integrating AI/ML models or LLM-powered tools into production systems — including model serving, inference pipelines, or AI-assisted automation workflows.

• Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and microservices at scale.

• Strong understanding of relational databases, caching technologies, message queues and distributed system fundamentals.

• Bilingual English/Mandarin is required to be able to coordinate with overseas partners and stakeholders.