Software Engineer, Product Engineering at Greenlite (S23)
$160 - $280
AI agents for financial compliance
San Francisco, CA, US
Full-time
US citizen/visa only
3+ years
About Greenlite

We work in-person at our San Francisco office five days a week, believing the best ideas and fastest learning happen through side-by-side collaboration. We challenge each other daily and build innovative products together.

Greenlite builds AI agents that help financial services companies manage risk and compliance and fight financial crime. We serve major clients like Ramp, Mercury, and other major U.S. financial institutions, helping them grow while maintaining financial system integrity. Backed by Greylock, Y Combinator, and Thomson Reuters, we're among the fastest-growing AI companies globally.

We value people who:

Take action quickly, learning by doing rather than seeking perfection

Think boldly to reimagine financial services

Deeply understand customer needs to build elegant solutions

Show potential and continuous growth, not just experience

We've brought together exceptional builders from Palantir, SpaceX, Stripe, Airbnb, Meta, Uber, and Databricks to tackle financial system challenges. Our AI agents fight financial crime by automating suspicious activity investigations, entity due diligence, and regulatory reporting, helping banks and fintechs protect the integrity of the global financial system.

Our team combines technical excellence with practical problem-solving, low-ego collaboration, relentless curiosity, and autonomous work. We're seeking diverse perspectives that elevate our collective capabilities. Greenlite is an equal opportunity employer welcoming applicants from all backgrounds.

About the role

About Greenlite AI

Greenlite AI builds AI-powered compliance automation for financial institutions. We transform manual risk assessment processes into intelligent, scalable workflows that help our customers make faster, more accurate decisions about onboarding, due diligence, and ongoing monitoring.

The Role

We're hiring Product Engineers who excel at turning complex customer problems into elegant technical solutions. You'll own substantial features from conception to production, working directly with customers to understand their needs, designing scalable architectures, and shipping code that measurably improves compliance operations.

This role combines deep technical work with high customer impact. You'll build systems that process thousands of cases, save compliance teams significant time, and directly contribute to company revenue.

What You’ll Build

Customer-Facing Products

  • Develop intuitive interfaces for case management, reporting, and analytics
  • Build document analysis and verification systems
  • Build agentic workflows that coordinate AI tools and data services to perform research, enrichment, and verification, while keeping humans in the loop for review.
  • Create tools that help customers configure and customize their compliance workflows

What We’re Looking For

Must-Haves:

  • 4+ yrs (Engineer) / 6+ yrs (Sr. Engineer) / 8+ yrs (Staff Engineer) building production software
  • Strong full-stack capabilities—backend services, APIs, databases, and (nice-to-have) frontend development
  • Track record of shipping customer-facing products where reliability matters
  • End-to-end ownership mindset: from requirements through deployment and iteration
  • Clear communication—you can explain technical decisions to diverse audiences
  • Product thinking—you understand why you're building something, not just how.

Valued Experience: 

  • Building workflow engines, orchestration systems, or process automation tools
  • Working in regulated industries where compliance, auditability, and data integrity are critical
  • Integrating AI/LLM capabilities into production applications
  • Creating configuration systems, admin tools, or workflow builders for non-technical users
  • Designing systems for multi-tenancy, versioning, or complex authorization models
  • Strong foundation in data modeling and distributed systems

Technical Skills:

We work with modern web technologies—TypeScript, Python, Node.js, React, cloud infrastructure, and workflow orchestration frameworks. You don't need to know our exact stack, but you should be comfortable learning new technologies quickly.

Why You’ll Love Working Here

  • Meaningful work: Solve hard problems that help financial institutions fight fraud and manage risk
  • Technical complexity: Build AI agents, workflow engines, data pipelines, and sophisticated UIs
  • Customer connection: Work directly with users, see your impact, iterate based on real feedback
  • True ownership: Ship features that matter, influence product direction, own outcomes
  • High growth: Join during a phase where your contributions shape the company's future

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

  • $160k–$280K 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.

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