Senior Full Stack Engineer

Singapore, Singapore | Posted on 02/27/2025

At Unit
21, we believe that combating financial crime demands a united front. Through our adaptable risk engine and versatile case manager, we identify and proactively mitigate risks related to money laundering, fraud, and other illicit activities. With a simple API and no-code interface, we empower fraud fighters and AML heroes to proactively detect and prevent fraud–without tapping engineering.

Unit
21 is on a mission to combat financial crime by enabling investigators to combat the ever‑changing landscape of fraud, scams and money laundering. We’ve created a platform that is data‑schema agnostic, fully customizable, and performant. We believe that by providing the most flexible, efficient, and cutting‑edge tooling, we can make a difference in the fight against crime.

We are looking for a strong technical lead to help grow our Singapore engineering team. This role is primarily expected to be a strong independent contributor while also collaborating closely with product teams and providing technical direction. Our Singapore team allows us to push product initiatives forward during non‑US hours without distraction. We are looking for an experienced cornerstone to build the team around—one that can translate product vision into scalable features.

• Focusing primarily on high output software development leveraging state‑of‑the‑art GenAI code generation practices
• Taking on technical leadership of projects from ideation to deployment and release
• Collaborating closely with product managers to determine what is technically feasible to unlock a seamless user experience
• Reviewing pull requests, internally and externally to the team, to provide helpful feedback for stability and mentorship
• Innovating on creative technical solutions to difficult analog problems

• 5+ years of experience in Python/Go/Rust (or other object‑oriented language)
• 3+ years of experience with React
• 3+ years of experience working with data warehouses such as Snowflake, Databricks, or Redshift
• Experience in building and managing distributed systems
• Experience with AWS and Terraform (or equivalent)
• Experience in developing and optimizing end‑to‑end APIs, data‑flows, SQL queries and infrastructure for consumer or enterprise products
• Experience with event‑driven architecture and relevant technologies (Kafka, Rabbit
  
  MQ, etc.)
• Advanced knowledge of software engineering principles including design, source control management, build processes, automated deployments, code reviews, and testing methods

• Experience managing large‑scale critical production systems with minimum SLAs of 4 9’s
• Experience with Apache Spark

The standard base pay range for this role is 14,000 - 16,000 SGD monthly.

• Competitive salary and pre‑IPO stock options
• Unlimited paid time off
• Generous leave programs for life events
• One‑time home‑office set‑up stipend

Unit
21 stops bad actors by leveraging data to deliver justice and safety in the world. We protect businesses against adversaries engaging in money laundering, fraud, and other sophisticated risks by offering no‑code infrastructure to model, detect, and remediate suspicious activity. Our customers range from large Fortune 500 companies to high‑potential, pre‑launch startups. We have reported over USD $2 billion in fraud and laundered money to the U.S. government using our software.

We are a rapidly growing Series C startup, having raised close to $100 m from Google, Tiger Global, ICONIQ Capital, Jack Dorsey, Diane Greene, and other leading VCs. Our team believes deeply in fostering individual ownership, iterative product development, and empathetic communication. There are many challenging problems to solve in this industry, and a huge opportunity for our software to empower companies to define a new standard of eliminating bad behavior on their platforms.