Senior Backend Engineer
About Bureau
Bureau is a unified risk decisioning platform for Compliance, Fraud, and Transaction risks. Our platform is a single decision-making engine, powered by a 1 billion+ identity knowledge graph. Over 150 Banks, fintechs, retailers, and digital platforms use Bureau to verify identities faster and stop fraud earlier globally.
Bureau has raised $50M+ from renowned Silicon Valley and global investors including Sorenson Capital and PayPal Ventures and is expanding rapidly from APAC to Americas, Europe, and beyond.
Why Bureau?
Bureau is building the infrastructure that makes digital identities and transactions safe and trustworthy for billions of people. The mission is big, the problems are complex, and the impact is real.
We hire people who want that level of responsibility. People who move fast, build systems from scratch, and care deeply about turning strategy into execution. If you want predictability or narrow scope, this won't be your place. If you want to shape how a scaling global company operates—keep reading.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll work on systems that sit at the core of our platform—designed for scale, speed, and reliability.
Design, build, and operate APIs and backend services that are low-latency, highly available, and performance-efficient
Build a developer-first risk and fraud API ecosystem used by internal and external teams
Own features end-to-end—from design and implementation to deployment and monitoring
Design and implement security and data-protection capabilities as first-class concerns
Integrate and optimize data storage solutions across different use cases
Write clear, practical documentation to help teams move faster
Continuously raise the bar by improving engineering standards, tooling, and processes
What You’ll bring
We’re looking for engineers who care deeply about building solid systems and take pride in clean, scalable code.
4–6 years of hands-on backend development experience, with a strong focus on building RESTful APIs
Strong Golang experience and comfort working with modern data stores such as Postgres SQL, Data warehouses like Clickhouse, Elasticsearch, Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Couchbase, or similar
Experience building and running services on AWS or other public cloud platforms
Solid understanding of system design, performance, and reliability
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
Our Culture
We hire self-motivated people and get out of their way
We value performance, not hours worked
Speed, ownership, and impact matter most
Compensation
Competitive salary + potential equity
Health benefits, flexible PTO, learning budget
