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title: 'Backend Engineer at Duna'
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# Backend Engineer at Duna

- **Company:** Duna
- **Location:** Remote
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-02-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duna/909c7363-8eb0-4d61-9486-d794eeb42de9

## Job description

At Duna, we see the company as the second product we’re building and are continually working to create a transparent, ambitious culture. We want this to be the place where you do your best work.

Our mission is to redefine identity for the global economy. We’re backed by world-class investors including Index Ventures as well as founders and executives from companies like Stripe, Adyen, Notion, Remote, Qonto, Framer, Anthropic, Mollie, OpenAI, Goldman Sachs.

SINCE YOUR ROLE WITH US WILL RARELY FIT A JOB DESCRIPTION, WE ONLY WROTE A CRISP OVERVIEW.

## WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING IN THIS ROLE

- Design and build backend systems that are clean, testable, and efficient
- Architect scalable APIs and infrastructure for high-trust environments
- Bring strong opinions on testing, quality, and long-term maintainability
- Tackle complex product challenges with a user-first mindset
- Shape our engineering practices and technical culture

## WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- Systems thinking - you see beyond features to long-term system behaviour
- Clear communicator who enjoys breaking down complexity and collaborating deeply
- Appetite for learning and working in ambiguity
- Curiosity
- Big ambitions
- Kindness

Our current stack includes Node.js + TypeScript, Event Sourcing, Express, Postgres, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, AWS. Experience with these is a plus, but not required. We are more excited about how you approach problems and find solutions.

At Duna, we look to hire passionate people from a variety of backgrounds. We value potential, growth, and diverse perspectives. If you’re excited about the role, a builder at heart, and want to build magical products with exceptional people, we would love to hear from you.

## About Duna

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Duna is an AI-native business identity platform that accelerates compliant business onboarding and lifecycle management for regulated enterprises.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Tarifa, Andalusia, Spain (operates across the Netherlands, Germany, UK, Sweden, Ireland, and Portugal)
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: David Schreiber and Duco van Lanschot

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: RegTech / Compliance Technology / Business Identity Infrastructure
- **Target customers**: B2B – large banks, fintechs, platforms, and financial institutions (current clients include Plaid, CCV, Fiserv, Moss, and Bol)
- **Mission**: To redefine identity for the global economy by building a network for shareable identity – making business onboarding as simple as one click.

## Products & Services
- **Duna Platform**: An AI-native business identity platform covering the full onboarding and lifecycle management workflow. Features include:
  - **Policy Engine**: Translates KYC, KYB, and AML rules into automated, auditable code.
  - **Onboarding**: First-time-right data collection with real-time risk scoring, dynamic UIs, and multi-language support (7+ languages, 210+ local registries).
  - **Periodic Reviews**: Automates the re-KYC lifecycle from policy to data collection.
  - **Daily Monitoring**: Continuous PEP, sanctions, and media screening with discrepancy monitoring.
  - **Case Management**: Built-in prioritization, escalation, 4-eye reviews, and automated approvals.
  - **AI Agents**: Automate document verification, periodic reviews, and acceptance workflows.
  - **Smart Routing**: Automatically routes to the best data providers based on performance, cost, and coverage.
  - **Audit Trail**: Logs every interaction, decision, and policy change as a traceable event.
  - **Legal Agreements**: Manages contract and ToS acceptance with verified legal representatives.

## Market Standing
- **Total Funding**: $47.7M (Seed + Series A)
  - **Seed Round**: $12.2M (June 2025) led by **Index Ventures**, with 21 investors (including founders/execs from Stripe, Adyen, Anthropic, Goldman Sachs)
  - **Series A**: $35.5M (February 2026) led by **CapitalG** (Alphabet’s independent growth fund), with 9 investors
- **Key Metric**: Series A of $35.5M
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Index Ventures, CapitalG, founders and executives from Stripe, Adyen, Anthropic, Goldman Sachs, and Trade Republic. Integration partners include all major KYC/AML data providers.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Named in WIRED’s list of Europe’s top 100 startups (2025)
  - Named in Sifted’s list of top 100 AI startups (2025)
  - Customers report **10.6x faster onboarding**, **37% conversion increase**, and **4.8x analyst efficiency**
  - Rapid team growth (30 employees, +5.4% monthly headcount growth)
  - Team includes leaders from Stripe, Adyen, Trade Republic, Klarna, Apple, Google, Uber, Airbnb, and Spotify

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-Native Architecture**: Purpose-built AI agents for compliance (not bolted-on AI), enabling automated document verification, smart routing, and policy-driven case management.
- **Deep Localization**: 210+ local registries, 7+ languages, UBO registers, local VAT – ready out of the box for global compliance.
- **Policy-as-Code Engine**: Translates complex KYC/KYB/AML rules into auditable code, creating the industry’s most detailed audit trails.
- **Network Effects Vision**: Long-term strategy is to evolve into a shareable business identity network – reducing onboarding to a single click across the internet.
- **Founding Team Depth**: Founders bring experience scaling identity and payments infrastructure at Stripe, Trade Republic, and Fourthline – grounded in real-world regulatory challenges.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**:
  - Expand enterprise customer base in banking, fintech, and regulated platforms
  - Continue scaling the platform’s AI capabilities and data orchestration
  - Build the shareable identity network for one-click onboarding across the web
- **Direction for growth**: Reinvest in R&D and team expansion (especially engineering) to solve the internet’s “unsolved problem” of business identity.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Principles**:
  - Strong emphasis on **“Transparent by default”** as an operating principle
  - Belief that “a business becomes the people it hires” – every hire is seen as essential
  - Outcomes-focused, with high trust and autonomy
- **Work Policy**: **Full-remote** with flexible hours – truly distributed team across 7+ countries
- **Compensation & Equity**: Global pay philosophy, **market-leading equity** for engineers
- **Engineering Culture**: Solving deeply technical, high-impact problems in identity infrastructure. The team includes alumni from Stripe, Google, Apple, Spotify, Uber – a strong signal of engineering caliber
- **Notable Perks**: Flexible hours, remote-first, global talent pool, and the chance to work on “one of the internet’s biggest unsolved problems”
- **Team Composition**: Technical roles make up 41% of the team, with a flat structure (44% “other management” suggests a lean, high-agency environment)

## Sources
1. [Duna.com - Official Site](https://duna.com/)
2. [Duna.com - About Page](https://duna.com/about)
3. [Duna.com - Careers: What's in it for you](https://duna.com/careers/whats-in-it-for-you)
4. [Duna.com - Careers: Why we love working here](https://duna.com/careers/why-we-love-working-here)
5. [LinkedIn - Duna Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/building-duna)

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