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