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# Senior Software Engineer, API and Data Delivery at Enigma

- **Company:** Enigma
- **Location:** New York NY OR Los Angeles, CA
- **Posted:** 2020-11-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/enigmaio/jobs/2454336

## Job description

The Opportunity

This is a critical and exciting time at Enigma. We are hearing from repeated customers that our product is creating tremendous value for them and is aligned perfectly with their needs. This creates an urgent need to showcase the power of our small business data as we scale our sales and marketing initiatives.

## The Role

We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our API and Data Delivery Team. You will play a central role in architecting, building and managing critical systems in distilling and delivering large data sets, working with teammates and clients to solve high-impact, real-world problems.

## What You’ll Do

- Build scalable, highly-available, high-throughput, highly maintainable systems, deployed in cloud environments
- Solve problems with containers, cloud infrastructure and infrastructure as code (we use Docker, AWS and Terraform)
- Have a “can-do” attitude and doesn’t flinch when faced with a challenge, no matter how large or small
- Pride themselves on writing highly readable, thoroughly tested code
- Get excited when working as part of a motivated, collaborative team
- Identify problems that others aren’t seeing and makes sure they get solved
- Is driven to work with customers to have an impact on the real world
- Inspire their teammates to perform at their best while building a collaborative, supportive team culture
- Effectively manage responsibilities for architecture and design decisions, hands-on implementation, team organization and technical mentorship

What Makes This Role Exciting?

- Impact: Your technical ability and decision making will have a direct impact on our customers and the success of our product in the market, driving critical decision making at multi-billion dollar companies.
- Technical Challenge: Our systems integrate new technologies for database, information retrieval, distributed systems, micro-services, elastic scaling, data pipelines, and more.
- Ownership: API & Data Delivery team is solving some of the world’s most demanding challenges. An ideal candidate is an engineer looking to grow their responsibilities and work with the team to have a significant technical and business impact.

Our Ideal Candidate

- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Enjoys collaborating with cross-functional partners (product managers, other engineers, our client stakeholders) to set clear expectations and solve common problems
- Is driven to work with customers to have an impact on the real world

Bonus Points If You

- Have an outstanding track record of leading engineering teams
- Have extensive experience engineering SaaS data products

## About Us

At Enigma, we’re building the single, most reliable source of data on businesses to power the future of financial services. By engineering better data from hundreds of public and third-party sources, we aim to tell the complete story of every business, so that companies of every size can access the financial services they need to grow and thrive. Our core values – generosity, curiosity, ingenuity, & drive – guide everything we do, from how we make our most important product decisions to how we work with and support one another on a daily basis. We’re a team of curious, driven individuals with diverse backgrounds and skills, but we’re all passionate about engineering deeper understanding through data—together. If this resonates, we would love to hear from you!

We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

Salary Range: $180,000-$295,000

A note on salary ranges: we pride ourselves on paying competitively for our size and industry. Salary is one piece of a total Enigma compensation package that includes additional benefits and opportunities. All of our compensation packages include equity because we believe 100% of Enigma employees should have the option to purchase ownership in the company and benefit from the value we’re creating together.

## About Enigma

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Enigma provides a business identity infrastructure platform that resolves public and third-party data into a comprehensive profile for every U.S. business, powering verification, risk, and growth use cases.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Funding Stage: Late-stage)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, USA
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Not publicly available in provided materials

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Data Analytics, Financial Services Technology (FinTech), Risk & Compliance.
- **Target customers**: B2B, primarily targeting Enterprise and SMB-focused financial institutions, payment processors, and fintech companies. Specific customer roles include Risk & Compliance Leaders and Payments Leaders.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To provide comprehensive intelligence about the identity and financial health of small and medium businesses, creating a single source of truth so that companies of every size can access the financial services they need to grow and thrive.

## Products & Services
- **Enigma Identity Graph**: The core product, a knowledge graph that links 100M+ registrations, 30M+ brands, and 2B+ relationships into a single, unified profile for every U.S. business. It cross-references websites and operational signals to confirm a business is active.
- **KYB & Onboarding**: A solution to automate Know Your Business (KYB) verification using government sources, designed to onboard more customers and reduce operational costs.
- **Customer & Transaction Screening**: A risk and compliance tool for screening customers and transactions against sanctions lists and internal risk appetites, for both initial onboarding and ongoing monitoring.
- **Merchant Transactions Signals**: Data derived from over 30 billion anonymized transactions (representing $4.5+ trillion in annual volume) to provide payment leaders with insights on merchant payment volume and identify growth opportunities.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not listed in provided materials (requires further research).
- **Growth Signals**: The company is actively hiring for senior engineering and go-to-market roles, indicating a growth phase. They market a specific "Merchant Transactions Signals" product derived from a massive card panel, suggesting significant data network effects.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified Business Identity Graph**: Their key differentiator is solving the "chaotic problem of business identity" by linking brands, DBAs, locations, and legal entities into a single profile, going beyond simple DBA matching.
- **Data Depth & Scale**: Combines hundreds of public and third-party sources with proprietary machine learning to provide a more complete and accurate view of a business. Their card transaction data panel (30B+ transactions) is a unique data moat.
- **Reliability**: Employs cross-referencing of websites and operational signals to confirm a business is active and real, filtering out "ghost" businesses, which is a major pain point in financial services.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI Enablement**: Their product is designed to be queried by both people and AI agents. They position the Identity Graph as providing "ground truth" for AI systems, which is a clear strategic priority.
- **Platform for Financial Services**: The company is focused on being the infrastructure layer for financial services, powering workflows for "KYB, underwriting, and sanctions screening."
- **Growth & Product-Led**: They have a dedicated "Product Lead, Growth" and "Senior Software Engineer, Growth" role, indicating a strategic focus on building a growth engine around their product.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: The company emphasizes core values of "generosity, curiosity, ingenuity, & drive" and describes itself as a team of "curious, driven individuals with diverse backgrounds."
- **Transparent Compensation**: Enigma has a formal, transparent compensation philosophy based on "Five Levels of Impact," with salary and equity ranges shared internally. They conduct semi-annual performance reviews and calibrations, which they report receives positive employee feedback.
- **Work Environment**: Offers a hybrid workspace where employees can choose to work remotely or from offices in New York, NY or Los Angeles, CA, with a flexible policy. They prioritize hiring in the NYC/LA/SF markets.
- **Technology & Team**: Uses a modern tech stack (Python, AWS, Kubernetes, Snowflake, React, etc.) and is actively building a strong engineering team, as evidenced by multiple senior-level openings.
- **Benefits**: Offers a broad set of perks including 401(K), company equity, parental/family leave, disability and life insurance, free snacks, and commuter benefits.

## Sources
1. [Job Boards (Greenhouse)](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/enigmaio)
2. [Enigma.com Official Site](https://www.enigma.com/)
3. [Built In NYC](https://builtin.com/company/enigma)
4. [Enigma Blog: Compensation Philosophy](https://www.enigma.com/resources/blog/our-compensation-philosophy-transparency-uniformity-fairness)
5. [About Us Page](https://enigma.com/company/about-us)

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