Full Stack Engineer

About Baselayer: With experience across far-ranging banks, Fortune 500 tech co’s, fintech unicorns 🦄, and AI experts, Baselayer is built by financial institutions, for financial institutions.

Started in 2023 by experienced founders Jonathan Awad and Timothy Hyde, Baselayer has raised $20 Million and hit $2 Million in ARR faster than any other identity company in history.

Today more than 2,000 Financial Institutions and Government Agency customers later, Baselayer is revolutionizing the way businesses approach fraud prevention and compliance. 🏆

About You: You want to learn from the best of the best, get your hands dirty, and put in the work to hit your full potential. You’re not just doing it for the win—you’re doing it because you have something to prove and want to be great. You are looking to be an impeccable full stack engineer.

• You have 2+ years of experience in full stack or backend development, working with Python, Typescript, Javascript and building


• You’re comfortable working with large-scale data and enjoy optimizing performance for high-volume systems


• You have a keen eye for detail and take pride in writing clean, maintainable code while optimizing for performance


• You thrive in a high-trust, ownership-focused environment and are comfortable working across different levels of abstraction


• Problem-solver who navigates the unknown confidently


• Proactive self-starter who thrives in dynamic settings


• Incredibly intelligent and clever. You take pride in your code


• Highly feedback-oriented. We believe in radical candor and using feedback to get to the next level.

Responsibilities:

• Console and Website Build: Build the infrastructure to support and create a robust website and console architecture.


• Platform Infrastructure: Build the infrastructure to support future AI/ML hires and projects, creating a scalable platform foundation for continued innovation.


• Security & Compliance: Ensure backend systems meet industry standards for security, privacy, and compliance, particularly around KYC/KYB regulations.


• Performance Optimization: Implement optimizations for large-scale data management, ensuring backend services can efficiently process identity data while maintaining reliability.


• Testing & Debugging: Write unit tests, debug issues, and monitor backend services for performance and reliability, while continuously improving backend architecture to handle diverse data and use cases.

Benefits:

• Hybrid in SF. In office 2 days/week


• Flexible PTO


• Healthcare, 401K


• Smart, genuine, ambitious team