Join a founding engineering team building LLM-powered agents that revolutionize how banks and fintech unicorns detect fraudulent businesses. You will translate novel AI capabilities into auditable user experiences, working directly with the CTO to replace manual risk investigations with intelligent automation for global financial institutions at the forefront of AI adoption.
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Senior Software Engineer at Godiligent
Join the founding team of a London-based, YC-backed startup that's weaponizing LLMs to catch fraudulent businesses for global banks and fintech unicorns. Backed by Speedinvest and founders of N26, this role offers a rare chance to build the future of financial risk automation from the ground up alongside a world-class engineering team. If you're a full-stack product engineer who thrives on shipping fast and solving high-stakes problems with AI, this is your opportunity to own a significant piece of a company tackling financial crime at a global scale.
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Location
London, United Kingdom
Compensation
£90k-£115k + Equity
Company
Godiligent
Role overview
AI Software10-20 employeesBerlin, GermanyPre-Seed (VC-backed)
Diligent is a London-based company that builds agents to automate and strengthe Anti Money Laundering operations for banks and fintechs - including running in-depth risk investigations on legal entities and counterparties, verifying and validating customer documents (such as registry extracts and proofs of address), reviewing alerts from transaction screening systems etc
Backed by Y Combinator.
What you will do
- Build and scale the core platform and integration infrastructure using NodeJS/TypeScript, React, and AWS Serverless to power autonomous LLM agents.
- Work side-by-side with financial crime and risk teams to translate complex investigative workflows into intuitive, performant end-user experiences.
- Evolve data schemas to bring reliability to non-deterministic LLM outputs, ensuring all AI-driven insights are robust and auditable for enterprise compliance.
Who this is a fit for
- Proven track record of shipping production-grade code in high-growth startup environments, ideally with proficiency in TypeScript/Node and React.
- High empathy and curiosity for solving non-technical user problems, with the ability to navigate early-stage ambiguity and take full ownership of projects.
- Interest in the intersection of LLMs and financial risk, possessing the drive to learn a complex domain and iterate rapidly based on direct customer feedback.
Why this role is remarkable
- Founding team impact where you will shape both the core product architecture and company culture from day one under a CTO who led fraud engineering for multi-billion dollar transaction volumes.
- Backed by Y Combinator (S23) and premier investors including Speedinvest, with an angel network featuring founders from N26, Allica Bank, and Billie.
- Direct exposure to high-growth fintech unicorns and global banks, solving mission-critical financial crime problems using a cutting-edge serverless and GenAI tech stack.
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