Senior Software Engineer, Identity Graph

ABOUT BASELAYER

Every day, financial institutions make consequential decisions about which businesses to onboard, extend credit to, and trust. Baselayer exists to make those decisions faster and more accurately. Our AI business identity platform is trusted by more than 2,200 financial institutions to verify any business, automate KYB, and monitor real-time risk. Our mission is to eliminate business fraud and lower the cost of trust across the financial system.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The team at Baselayer is built around people who care about getting things done right. We work closely with customers who have real compliance requirements and a limited tolerance for error, which means we move deliberately, communicate directly, and hold ourselves to a high standard. If you're someone who loves to take ownership and cares about the quality of what ships, let's chat!

ABOUT THE ROLE

Baselayer is building the most comprehensive, accurate, and continuously-current identity graph of US businesses and consumers. Every entity, officer, address, relationship, and public record we can responsibly source - ingested, normalized, linked, and kept fresh. That graph powers fraud detection, KYB onboarding, portfolio monitoring, sanctions screening, and a growing surface of customer-facing API products. We're hiring a senior engineer to own product features across that surface end-to-end: schema design, data ingestion, entity resolution, API endpoints, scope and multi-tenancy, and performance under real customer load.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Ingest and normalize heterogeneous public records into the graph, owning the full pipeline: ingestion to normalizer to repository to API surface.

• Build and maintain entity resolution and linking systems - matching the same business or person across sources where keys don't line up, names are misspelled, and addresses are formatted six different ways.

• Design and ship customer-facing APIs for search, lookup, monitoring, and webhook delivery - built for engineers who'll be live in production within a day of signing up.

• Own schema design and zero-downtime migrations on a database hot 24/7.

• Optimize performance and scale: query patterns for 10x volume, ingestion pipelines that finish before the next batch arrives, API latencies that don't drift as the graph deepens.

• Build multi-tenancy and access control: every query in the system scoped by org/user/permission at the data layer.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Shipped product features that touched ingestion to storage to API to customer, end-to-end, in production.

• Owned a Postgres schema that real money or real decisions depended on, and stayed on top of its evolution.

• Strong async Python with experience running async services at scale.

• Deep Postgres expertise: schema design under live load, EXPLAIN ANALYZE as a reflex, zero-downtime migration tooling.

• FastAPI (or close equivalent): shipped real APIs with auth dependencies, OpenAPI contracts, and structured response models.

• Built multi-tenant APIs where access control is load-bearing and scoped correctly at the data layer.

WHAT SETS YOU APART

• Entity resolution / record linkage / fuzzy matching at scale.

• Search infrastructure - full-text, fuzzy, or vector - kept in sync with a Postgres system of record.

• KYC/KYB/fraud/underwriting data-pipeline experience.

• Address parsing/normalization at country scale.

• Webhook delivery infrastructure: retries, signing, idempotency, and ordering guarantees.

• GCP experience with Cloud Run, Cloud Tasks, Cloud SQL, and batch pipelines.

WORK LOCATION

• Based in NYC or SF; hybrid 4 days per week in office.

COMPENSATION

• Salary Range: $135k – $220k + Equity | 0.05% – 0.25%

BENEFITS

• Time off when you need it: Flexible PTO so you can recharge without red tape.

• In-person energy: We're based in NYC & SF and meet in the office 3-5 days a week.

• Competitive compensation: We pay well and back it with equity. We want you to think and act like an owner.

• Career rocket fuel: You'll help build the foundation of a high-growth startup, working side by side with experienced founders and team members who've done it before.

• Benefits on us: We cover 100% of your health, dental, and vision premiums. No surprise deductions from your paycheck.

• HSA contributions included: We contribute to your HSA on applicable plans, so your coverage works as hard as you do

• Stay healthy, stay sharp: A $250 annual gym stipend to help you bring your best self to work, and everywhere else

• A seat at the table: We believe in transparency, radical candor, and giving every team member a voice 🔥