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# Software Engineer - AI at Niva

- **Company:** Niva
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-03-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/niva/am9icG9zdDoKefyuMIhoouAHadkROpSx

## Job description

We are looking for an software engineer to join our team in New York, NY. As a founding member of our team focused on AI, you'll have the opportunity to shape our AI strategy and be instrumental in building our core technology platform.

## About Niva

At Niva, we’re building a universal identity layer that enables trust between businesses worldwide. We leverage cutting-edge language models and machine learning to deliver instant, reliable, and borderless business verification. Leading fintechs, banks, and public companies already use Niva to verify businesses, prevent fraud, and meet Know Your Business (KYB) requirements in minutes.

Read more about how Niva’s platform reduced time spent to verify businesses by 98% with a customer [here](https://niva-dev.webflow.io/case-studies/how-aplazo-mx-cut-merchant-review-time-by-98-with-niva). We’re a fast-moving team on a mission to make it effortless to trust businesses anywhere in the world and we’re looking for eager new teammates to help us accelerate our mission.

## What You'll Be Doing

- Work closely with the CEO and CTO to define our AI strategy and influence the product roadmap
- Design and develop our multi-agent AI platform that autonomously extracts, validates and reconciles business identity information from numerous sources across the globe
- Build robust evaluation frameworks to benchmark agent performance and ensure high-quality AI outputs
- Engage directly with customers to understand their needs and gather feedback, to improve the ways in which AI can improve their workflows
- Continuously staying up to date with the latest in the AI ecosystem
- Help set the culture of the company, promoting a collaborative and fun environment. You'll be part of the founding team and integral for establish not just what we work on, but "how" we work You're Probably a Match If You Have
- Hands-on experience building agent-based LLM applications using open-source or closed-source models (GPT, Claude, etc.)
- Knowledge of RAG techniques and how to optimize them for domain-specific knowledge, including chunking strategies, vector embeddings, and relevance scoring
- Strong Python skills with experience building reliable, scalable production systems
- Customer centric thinking - you're energized by translating user problems into AI solutions that deliver real-world value
- Comfort with ambiguity - you can navigate the challenges of working with emerging technologies where best practices are still evolving
- Excitement for how AI is changing the world and being part of that change

## What We Offer

- Competitive salary range of $180k - $250k
- Substantial equity in the company
- Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision)
- Flexible working hours and flexible time off
- A chance to be a part of a pioneering company with a mission to revolutionize global trust and commerce

## About Niva

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Niva leverages AI agents to create a universal business identity layer, enabling instant, reliable, and borderless verification of companies for cross-border commerce and compliance.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed-stage)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Abhinav Rai (CEO) and Akhil Naini (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Business Verification / Know Your Business (KYB) / Compliance & Fraud Prevention
- **Target customers**: B2B; fast-growing international fintechs, financial institutions, and any company that needs to onboard and verify other businesses across borders.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Accelerate global commerce by making it effortless to trust and work with businesses anywhere in the world."

## Products & Services
- **Niva Platform (AI Agents for KYB & Fraud)**: A SaaS platform that uses AI agents to automate the entire business verification process. Key features include:
    - **Pre-filled applications** and instant document validation to increase conversion rates.
    - **Reduced processing time** from days to under 10 minutes.
    - **360-degree fraud detection** by analyzing government registries, company websites, social media, and news outlets.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$8.8M** across two rounds.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**:
    - **Lead Investors**: Kaszek (Seed round lead), Gradient Ventures (Google's AI fund, Pre-Seed lead).
    - **Other Investors**: Picus Capital, Canary, Gilgamesh Ventures.
    - **Key Customers/Partners**: Xepelin (B2B fintech in Latin America), Aplazo (one of Mexico's largest BNPL providers).
- **Growth Signals**:
    - Headcount grew **76.9% YoY** to 18 employees.
    - Opened a new office in **Mexico City** in May 2026, a critical market for their business.
    - Strong LinkedIn follower growth (+51.8% yearly).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep Domain Expertise**: Founders have over 15 years of combined experience. Abhinav Rai was a GM at Enigma (SMB data leader), and Akhil Naini was a Director of Engineering at Chime and an early engineer at Gusto, giving them first-hand knowledge of the KYB pain point.
- **AI-First Approach**: They are not just digitizing a manual process; they are building AI agents that can understand complex, multi-lingual, and country-specific legal and financial documents.
- **Backed by Top-Tier AI & Fintech VCs**: Kaszek (top LatAm VC) and Gradient (Google's AI fund) provide both capital and strategic credibility.

## Strategic Focus
- **Global Expansion**: Specifically targeting hard-to-verify markets like Mexico, which are critical for cross-border commerce.
- **Product Development**: Continuing to build out their AI agent capabilities to automate more of the KYB workflow and reduce fraud.
- **Talent Acquisition**: Actively hiring for engineering, product, and design roles to scale the platform.

## Why Work Here
- **High-Impact Mission**: Work on solving a massive, real-world problem in the $150T+ cross-border commerce market.
- **Cutting-Edge Tech**: Opportunity to work with modern AI to solve a complex, data-intensive problem.
- **Strong Founder-Market Fit**: Learn from founders who have deep experience in the exact problem they are solving.
- **Early-Stage Environment**: Join a small, growing team (18 people) where you can have a massive impact on the product and company direction.
- **Office Policy**: In-office roles in New York, NY (HQ) and Mexico City.
- **Culture**: Described as a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment backed by top-tier investors.

## Sources
1. [niva.co](https://niva.co/company)
2. [jobs.gem.com](https://jobs.gem.com/niva)
3. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/withniva)
4. [niva.co (Launch Announcement)](https://niva.co/post/launch-announcement-2024)
5. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/niva)

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