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Software Engineer at Proximitty

Proximitty (YC W26) is seeking a Founding Software Engineer to build the compliance OS for cross-border payments, leveraging AI to automate AML investigations. This is a unique opportunity to shape intelligent financial infrastructure, tackle a $40B problem, and work directly with founders to transform an entire industry, reversing billions in fines.

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Location

San Francisco, United States

Compensation

Not Disclosed

Company

Proximitty

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Role overview

Join Proximitty as a Founding Software Engineer to build the compliance OS for cross-border payments. You'll shape intelligent financial infrastructure, owning the design and orchestration of multi-agent workflows and state-of-the-art browser agents. This pivotal role offers immense impact in automating AML investigations and reversing billions in fines.

Finance

Proximitty is a financial crime and anti–money laundering (AML) technology company focused on automating financial crime reviews using trusted AI agents. Its platform is built specifically for the complexity of cross‑border financial activity and is designed to meet stringent regulatory standards, helping financial institutions and compliance teams streamline and automate AML and financial crime investigation workflows.

What you will do

  • Design and orchestrate reliable, effective, and explainable multi-agent systems that automate complex financial compliance workflows demanding 100% accuracy and audibility.
  • Design and implement comprehensive evaluation and guardrail frameworks that measure and improve agent performance across accuracy, reliability, and compliance adherence.
  • Build and optimize state-of-the-art browser agents that interact with web interfaces to automate data collection, form filling, and multi-step web-based compliance workflows.

Who this is a fit for

  • Hands-on experience building and deploying production AI agent systems, including multi-step planning, reasoning, tool use, and evaluation.
  • Proven experience architecting, scaling, and maintaining production-grade distributed systems that handle high throughput and complex state management.
  • A BS/MS in Computer Science, Distributed Systems, or AI Engineering, coupled with a deep passion for transforming industries with advanced AI.

Why this role is remarkable

  • Shape the future of financial compliance as the first founding engineer, building the trust layer for stablecoins with cutting-edge AI.
  • Join a YC W26 startup tackling a $40B problem, automating AML investigations with AI to prevent billions in fines for major financial institutions.
  • Work directly with founders and major financial institutions, gaining unparalleled experience in building advanced AI systems that will transform the cross-border payments industry.
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