Staff Engineer - Money, Risk & Payment Ancillaries

Remote · Full Time · Individual Contributor · +8 Years of Experience

Staff Engineer, Money, Risk & Payment Ancillaries

Who We Are

Yuno is the AI-native operating system of global commerce, powering the financial infrastructure of enterprise merchants, banks, and wallets. Through a single API, Yuno connects them to pay-ins, payouts, fraud prevention, KYC/KYB, and stablecoins globally, so they can operate everywhere. Agnostic by design and connected to 1,000+ payment methods and 460+ integrations in 190+ countries, Yuno optimizes acceptance rates, reduces costs, and strengthens security through specialized AI agents that learn from every transaction. Global brands including McDonald's, NetEase Games, GoFundMe, and Rappi run their payments on Yuno.

About The Role

Yuno is looking for a Staff Engineer to be the senior technical leader for Money, Risk & Payment Ancillaries — the business unit that protects money and manages risk across every transaction on the platform. Spanning risk, fraud, scams, money operations, reconciliations, and chargebacks, this is the domain where financial correctness, real-time decisioning, and trust are non-negotiable. You'll architect the foundational systems behind these capabilities and raise the technical bar for the teams that build them.

This is a hands-on leadership role in a zero-tolerance-for-failure environment — every cent must be accounted for, and every risk decision must be fast, accurate, and auditable. You'll design and build bank-grade, resilient systems, champion a "You Build It, You Run It" culture, and turn the hardest problems in money movement and risk into elegant, maintainable architecture.

What This Unit Owns

Risk & Risk Operations — real-time risk decisioning and the operational tooling that powers it

Fraud — detecting and preventing fraudulent transactions across the network

Scams — protecting users from authorized push payment (APP) scams and social-engineering attacks

Money Operations — the movement and settlement of funds across the platform

Reconciliations — matching transactions, settlements, and ledgers to guarantee financial accuracy

Chargebacks — managing disputes, representment, and the full chargeback lifecycle

How AI Shows Up in This Role

The systems you build power Yuno's AI-driven risk, fraud, and scam engines — the models and pipelines that evaluate every transaction, plus the agents that automate reconciliation and dispute workflows at scale

AI is our default execution layer: you're expected to use AI-assisted tooling fluently across design, implementation, testing, and review, and to shape how the unit adopts it

Your Contribution Will Be

Cross-domain architecture and technical leadership — own the architecture across risk, fraud, scams, money operations, reconciliations, and chargebacks; set the technical direction with versioned APIs and event-driven design, and raise the bar for the teams

Real-time risk and fraud systems — architect the low-latency systems that score transactions for risk and fraud and act on them before or at authorization

Money movement and financial correctness — build money operations and reconciliation systems with idempotency, exactly-once semantics, and auditable ledgers, so every cent is accounted for

Scams and disputes — design the platforms behind scam prevention and the chargeback and dispute lifecycle, aligned with card-network rules and regulatory requirements

Bank-grade, resilient systems — design highly available, compliant capabilities engineered for a zero-tolerance-for-failure environment, where feature velocity never compromises reliability

You Build It, You Run It — champion a YBIYRI culture: your teams design for multi-tenancy, elastic scaling, and automated observability, and own their microservices in production

Mentorship and cross-functional collaboration — mentor engineers and partner with Product, Data/ML, Compliance, and Staff Engineers across domains to deliver complex, cross-team work

What Success Looks Like

Within your first 6–12 months, you've led the architecture of at least one core capability across the unit (risk decisioning, fraud or scam prevention, money operations, reconciliation, or chargebacks), your teams own their services in production under a YBIYRI model, and you're the technical voice Yuno trusts on financial correctness and real-time risk.

Skills You Need

Minimum Qualifications

Extensive software engineering experience, with deep expertise in Go and/or Kotlin (our core backend stack) and strength across the full stack

A proven track record architecting robust, scalable, and maintainable distributed systems — event-driven, high-throughput, low-latency — with a strong grasp of design patterns and best practices

Experience building financial or risk-critical systems where correctness, consistency, and auditability matter (ledgers, reconciliation, real-time decisioning, or fraud/risk engines)

Strong experience with AWS and cloud-native services (RDS, ECS, EKS, S3, and similar)

Excellent automated testing practices — unit, integration, and end-to-end — within Agile, DevSecOps, and CI/CD workflows

Proven technical leadership — mentoring engineers, driving technical vision, and delivering complex, cross-team projects, with a feel for DORA metrics and unblocking teams

A preference for clean, modular architecture over monolithic shortcuts, and the judgment to balance reliability and compliance against feature velocity

English — advanced proficiency, written and spoken

Preferred Qualifications

Domain expertise — fraud/risk scoring models and ML feature pipelines, double-entry ledgers and reconciliation, chargeback and dispute frameworks with card-network rules, or APP-scam prevention

Data-intensive and streaming systems — Kafka, exactly-once processing, or event sourcing

Experience in the payments or fintech industry, operating at global scale

Performance optimization and efficient algorithms for high-throughput, low-latency systems

Static analysis and code-quality tooling (e.g., SonarQube) and mature CI/CD pipelines

Nice to Have

A track record of introducing new engineering practices or standards across multiple teams

Open-source contributions or technical writing that raised the bar for others

Spanish proficiency

Tech Stack

Languages — Go and Kotlin (core), Java

APIs — gRPC, REST

Frameworks — Spring Boot, Spring WebFlux; Go standard library

Messaging — Apache Kafka, SQS

Databases — PostgreSQL, Redis

Infrastructure — AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform

Observability — Datadog, OpenTelemetry

CI/CD — GitHub Actions, ArgoCD

Version Control — Git / GitHub

What We Offer at Yuno

Competitive Compensation

Remote Work — you can work from everywhere

Home Office Bonus — a one-time allowance to set up your ideal home office

Work Equipment

Stock Options

Health Plan wherever you are

Flexible Days Off

Language, Professional, and Personal Growth courses