Senior Software Engineer

• At Variance, we are teaching machines to make the hardest judgement calls at scale. That means building AI agents for the high-precision gray-area of risk investigations, fraud, and identity reviews.
• Have 4+ years of professional software engineering experience or equivalent
• Care deeply about craftsmanship and have strong opinions about product quality, system design, and code quality
• Thrive in high-ownership environments and want to drive projects end-to-end, from backend architecture to polished UI to production
• Have strong fundamentals and can ramp quickly in our stack: React/Next.js, TypeScript, MySQL, and ClickHouse
• Are comfortable making pragmatic technical tradeoffs in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
• Have experience building reliable systems at scale and debugging issues in production
• Enjoy collaborating closely with product, design, and leadership to turn fuzzy problems into shipped systems
• Raise the bar for the team through technical leadership, mentorship, and high standards
• What you’ll do
• Own product features and systems end-to-end, from architecture and implementation to launch and iteration
• Lead technical decisions across the stack, balancing speed, quality, maintainability, and scale
• Build AI-powered interfaces and decision systems that operate in real time with high precision and user trust
• Work directly with the founders on frontier problems in fraud, abuse, and risk
• Scale our product into new industries and workflows through rapid pilots, live demos, and fast feedback loops
• Improve engineering velocity by shaping internal tools, patterns, and standards
• Help define the technical foundation of the company as we grow

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