Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Hummingbird is a remote-first, fully distributed team united by the shared mission of helping fight financial crime. Since our launch in 2017, we've helped major financial institutions and tech-savvy trailblazers alike orchestrate their compliance programs through our thoughtfully designed, intuitive SaaS product. We believe finding and stopping financial crime is a problem rooted in code, language and design, so we built the product that the heroes doing this work deserve.

We are customer-obsessed, and we love building and shipping great products. We set a high bar, challenge our assumptions, seek diverse opinions, and support each other to do our best work.

We do our best to write inclusive, descriptive and accurate job descriptions, but we're not always perfect. If you're interested in the role, we'd love to hear from you even if you don't feel like you meet everything we're looking for. We're always iterating and improving, and it's possible that your experience is even more impactful than we could have imagined.

About the Role

At Hummingbird, we're building better software to fight financial crimeand our engineering team makes that mission possible. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Team, you'll play a key role in shaping the foundation of AI at Hummingbird. You'll design and deliver customer-facing AI features that make complex work more intuitive and efficient, like our context-aware AI Assistant and Auto Triage Agent.

In this role, you'll collaborate closely with Product, Design, and other engineers to bring ideas to lifefrom prototyping to production. You'll balance thoughtful model and tool selection with sound engineering principles, ensuring our systems are scalable, secure, and auditable. The projects you'll take on are often ambitious and open-ended, and you'll have the trust and autonomy to drive them from concept to completion.

We're looking for someone who's curious, collaborative, and motivated by impactsomeone who thrives in the messy middle of hard problems and helps bring clarity and direction to the team. If you're excited to use AI and data to make the world's financial systems safer and more transparent, we'd love to meet you.

What You'll Do :

• Write code to fight financial crime : First and foremost, our software engineers use their skills to serve our shared mission.
• Build AI features end-to-end : You'll design, implement, and ship features that span from retrieval and tool calling to production-ready user experienceswith a strong focus on measurement, observability, and real-world performance.
• Scale for impact : You'll architect and deliver systems that handle high data volumes and complex workflows with reliability and speed, ensuring our AI features are as resilient and efficient as they are powerful.
• Enhance trust and transparency : You'll improve grounding quality with permission-safe retrieval, citations, and evaluations that make AI outputs auditable and dependable.
• Optimize for experience : You'll drive latency and cost improvements where they matter mostcreating fast, seamless interactions for our users.
• Shape the product and strategy : You'll collaborate closely with Product and Design from discovery through iteration, helping define what AI can do for our customers. Great ideas come from everywhere, and your voice will help shape where we go next.

About You :

We're looking for someone who's curious, collaborative, and motivated by impactsomeone who thrives in the messy middle of hard problems and helps bring clarity and direction to the team :

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What's In It For You :

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please don't hesitate to contact us to request accommodation.