Bilingual Forward Deployed Engineer (English/Spanish)
At a glance
Mid-level Software Engineering role at AiPrise. San Jose · full-time · $115,000–$130,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Work with key customers to map onboarding, KYB and compliance workflows, then turn their problems into integrations, API changes or workflow updates
- Build customer-specific setups, vendor connections and data pipelines, taking each solution from initial scoping through production
- Bring recurring customer needs to product and engineering, identifying which should become platform capabilities and informing roadmap choices
- Diagnose live production problems and untangle integrations across compliance and identity providers
- Convert successful one-off work into reusable patterns, internal tools, guides and runbooks for future deployments
What you bring
- At least three years building and releasing software systems used in production
- You can speak, read and write Spanish to support customers in the LATAM region
- You have backend experience with a modern language, REST APIs, microservices and relational databases
- You can translate between customer business needs and technical requirements in direct conversations
- You have hands-on cloud experience with AWS, GCP or Azure, plus familiarity with CI/CD, Docker and deployment practices
Who this fits
This mid-level role suits an engineer who likes customer-facing problem solving, can work through ambiguity and wants ownership from scoping to deployment. You’ll work onsite in San Jose and support Spanish-speaking customers in the LATAM region.
From the employer
About AiPrise
AiPrise is a YC-backed (S22) global compliance orchestration platform helping fintechs, marketplaces, and payment companies verify and onboard customers worldwide. We integrate with 80+ identity and compliance vendors to deliver a holistic view of risk. We're building AI-powered compliance agents to transform KYB, AML, sanctions screening, and risk scoring, enabling customers to onboard faster, reduce manual reviews, and prevent financial crime.
We operate across 200+ countries.
The Role
This is not a typical engineering role. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll sit at the intersection of engineering, product, and customer success. You'll work directly with AiPrise's largest and most strategic customers to understand their compliance challenges, build custom integrations, and ship solutions that make the platform indispensable.
You won't be waiting for a ticket to land in your queue. You'll be in the room with the customer, scoping the problem, writing the code, and deploying the fix, sometimes in the same day.
This role is ideal for engineers who get energy from solving real problems for real people, and who want their work to have visible, immediate impact.
What You'll Do
Customer-facing engineering. Embed with key customers to understand their onboarding, KYB, and compliance workflows. Translate their pain points into technical solutions, whether that's a custom integration, a new API endpoint, or a workflow tweak.
Build and ship fast. Design and deploy customer-specific configurations, integrations with third-party compliance and identity vendors, and custom data pipelines. Own the full lifecycle from scoping through production.
Bridge product and engineering. Bring customer insights back to the core product team. Identify patterns across customer needs that should become platform features. Help shape the roadmap based on what you're seeing in the field.
Technical problem-solving under pressure. Debug production issues in real time. Troubleshoot complex vendor integrations across 80+ providers. Be the person customers trust to get things working.
Scale what works. Turn one-off solutions into reusable patterns. Write internal tooling, documentation, and runbooks that make the next deployment faster for everyone.
What We're Looking For
3+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production systems. You've written code that real users depend on.
Written and spoken proficiency in Spanish, as you will be working with our customers in the LATAM region.
Strong backend fundamentals. Proficiency in at least one modern language (Python, Go, Java, Node.js). Experience with REST APIs, microservices, and relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL).
Customer-facing comfort. You can hold your own in a call with a VP of Compliance at a fintech. You listen well, communicate clearly, and know how to translate business language into technical requirements (and vice versa).
Spanish fluency required. You can read and write in Spanish to support our Spanish-speaking customer base directly.
Bias toward action. You don't wait for perfect specs. You scope, build, and iterate. You're comfortable with ambiguity and thrive when given ownership.
Cloud experience. Hands-on with AWS (preferred), GCP, or Azure. Familiar with CI/CD, Docker, and modern deployment practices.
Nice to Have
Experience in fintech, regtech, payments, or fraud/risk detection
Familiarity with compliance workflows (KYC/KYB, AML, sanctions screening)
Experience integrating with third-party APIs at scale
Frontend skills (React, TypeScript) for building internal tools or customer-facing dashboards
Background working with ML/AI systems or data-intensive applications
Why This Role
Your work has direct, measurable impact on customers and revenue. No abstraction layers between you and the outcome.
You'll learn the compliance and fintech space deeply, working across diverse customer environments.
You're joining a 70-person, fast-moving team where your code hits production in days, not months.
Competitive compensation with meaningful equity in a YC-backed company with strong momentum.
In-person team in San Jose, working alongside the founders and core engineering team.
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