Software Engineer - Payment Compliance (AI)

Location: Seattle, United States; fully in-person up to 5 days per week

Salary: $129,960–$246,240 annually, plus potential discretionary bonuses, incentives, and restricted stock units.

Company

hirify.global operates a U.S. data privacy, cybersecurity, trust, and safety program for TikTok apps and services.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and optimize core payment compliance platform capabilities for KYC, AML, sanctions screening, case management, review workflows, configuration, quality control, and operational efficiency.
• Build highly available, scalable, and maintainable backend services for payments risk and compliance scenarios.
• Develop intelligent and AI-assisted review systems using LLMs, AI agents, RAG, knowledge bases, and workflow orchestration.
• Collaborate with product managers, compliance policy, operations, algorithm, and engineering teams.
• Improve system stability, performance, observability, monitoring, alerting, automated testing, and incident remediation.
• Translate compliance workflows, business rules, SOPs, and operational knowledge into reusable and extensible platform capabilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Python, or C++.
• Backend engineering experience with distributed systems, microservices, databases, caches, and message queues.
• Ability to independently design, develop, and deliver modules in complex business scenarios.
• Strong coding, debugging, system design, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work fully in person in Seattle up to 5 days per week.

Nice to have

• Experience in payments, fintech, compliance, risk control, AML, KYC, sanctions screening, anti-fraud, or case management systems.
• Experience or strong interest in LLMs, AI agents, RAG, prompt engineering, knowledge bases, workflow automation, or intelligent decision systems.
• Experience building workflow engines, rule engines, configuration platforms, review systems, or operational efficiency tools.
• Experience designing and optimizing highly available, high-performance, large-scale distributed systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance available from day one.
• 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, disability coverage, life insurance, and wellbeing benefits.
• 10 paid holidays, 10 paid sick days, and 17 days of paid personal time, with increasing accruals by tenure.
• Inclusive workplace focused on diverse perspectives, curiosity, humility, resilience, and continuous learning.