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title: 'Software Engineer, Product at Bretton AI'
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# Software Engineer, Product at Bretton AI

- **Company:** Bretton AI
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $168k–$213k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-01-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/brettonai/191496c7-6aa7-4d11-897d-7681aec0e6b9

## Job description

## About Bretton AI

Bretton runs AI-native operations for the financial back office. OCC, Fed and FDIC regulated banks use Bretton AI to run compliance, risk, fraud, and operations on one platform, on their own data and policies, with every output traced, cited, and audit-ready. We’ve raised over $95M from Greylock, Y Combinator, Thomson Reuters Ventures and other top tier investors. We’re based in downtown San Francisco and our team comes from world-class organizations like Google, Netflix, Stripe, Plaid, Brex, and more.

## The Role

We’re hiring Product Engineers who excel at turning complex customer problems into elegant technical solutions. You’ll own substantial features from conception to production, working directly with customers to understand their needs, designing scalable architectures, and shipping code that measurably improves compliance operations. This role combines deep technical work with high customer impact. You’ll build systems that process thousands of cases, save compliance teams significant time, and directly contribute to company revenue.

## What You’ll Build

- Develop intuitive interfaces for case management, reporting, and analytics.
- Build document analysis and verification systems.
- Build agentic workflows that coordinate AI tools and data services to perform research, enrichment, and verification, while keeping humans in the loop for review.
- Create tools that help customers configure and customize their compliance workflows.

## What We’re Looking For

Must-Haves:

- 4+ years (Engineer) / 6+ years (Sr. Engineer) / 8+ years (Staff Engineer) of experience building production software.
- Strong full-stack capabilities, including backend services, APIs, databases, and (nice-to-have) frontend development.
- A track record of shipping customer-facing products where reliability is critical.
- An end-to-end ownership mindset, from requirements gathering through deployment and iteration.
- Clear communication skills—you can explain technical decisions to diverse audiences.
- Product thinking—you understand why you’re building something, not just how.

Valued Experience:

- Building workflow engines, orchestration systems, or process automation tools.
- Working in regulated industries where compliance, auditability, and data integrity are critical.
- Integrating AI/LLM capabilities into production applications.
- Creating configuration systems, admin tools, or workflow builders for non-technical users.
- Designing systems for multi-tenancy, versioning, or complex authorization models.
- A strong foundation in data modeling and distributed systems.

Technical Skills: We work with a mix of TypeScript, Python, Node.js, React, cloud infrastructure, and workflow orchestration frameworks. You don’t need prior experience with our exact stack, but you should be comfortable learning new technologies quickly and applying them in production.

## Why You’ll Love Working Here

- Meaningful Work: Solve hard problems that help financial institutions fight fraud and manage risk.
- Technical Complexity: Build AI agents, workflow engines, data pipelines, and sophisticated UIs.
- Customer Connection: Work directly with users, see your impact, and iterate based on real feedback.
- True Ownership: Ship features that matter, influence product direction, and own outcomes.
- High Growth: Join during a phase where your contributions will shape the company’s future.

## Compensation & Benefits

- $168k - $213k base salary + meaningful equity
- Comprehensive healthcare, 401k matching, commuter benefits
- 15 days PTO + holidays, unlimited sick days
- Flexible leave options
- Working late? We cover DoorDash and Uber home

Join us in building AI that protects the global financial system from financial crimes that fund terrorism and human trafficking.

## About Bretton AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Bretton AI is an AI agent platform that automates financial crime compliance and back-office operations for regulated banks, replacing traditional BPOs with an audit-ready, AI-native workforce.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B – led by Sapphire Ventures, total funding $20.4M)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Will Lawrence

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Financial technology (FinTech), AI-powered compliance and risk management, RegTech
- **Target customers**: B2B – OCC, FDIC, and Fed-regulated banks, global exchanges, payments platforms, and other financial institutions (Fortune 500)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Grow the bank. Not the back office.” – reimagining how money moves by creating an AI workforce that makes finance smarter, faster, and more secure.

## Products & Services
- **Bretton AI Platform**: An AI-native operations platform that includes a Workbench (case workspace for humans and agents), a Builder (natural-language agent creation), and Trust Infrastructure (model validation, governance, auditability). Supports 30+ skill templates and 180+ data sources.
- **Bretton Agents**: Pre-built and custom agents for AML, sanctions screening, KYC/EDD, fraud operations, document reviews, alert handling, customer reviews, due diligence, and case narratives.
- **Bretton AI Managed Services**: Full-service transition to agentic infrastructure, including Forward Deployed Engineers who continuously improve agent performance.
- **Integrations**: Native connectors for core banking systems, document management, and compliance workflows.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $20.4M (Series B, 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sapphire Ventures (Series B lead), Greylock (Series A and Seed lead), Y Combinator (Summer 2023 batch, led by Tom Blomfield). Partnered with Kaufman Rossin for agentic compliance.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew from ~34 (early 2025) to 92 employees (mid-2026) – a 170%+ increase.
  - LinkedIn followers: 7,612 (+5.7% monthly).
  - Trusted by OCC, FDIC, and Fed-regulated institutions; deployed in 12 markets.
  - Reported metrics: 84,000 hours saved, 87% reduction in compliance review time, 200,000+ customer reviews conducted, 70% reduction in EDD queue completion time.
  - Active job postings: 9 open roles across engineering, sales, and operations.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Trust Infrastructure**: Proprietary system of model validation, continuous evaluations, and agent-as-a-judge QA that ensures every output is traced, cited, and regulator-aligned from day one.
- **Bank-grade compliance**: SOC 2 Type II, GDPR compliant, zero-data retention, virtual private clouds for enterprise deployment.
- **Defensibility**: Every decision logged with reasoning, evidence, and model version – production traces become eval sets, meeting OCC/FDIC/Fed expectations.
- **Forward Deployed Engineering**: Dedicated engineers who learn from each case, making agents sharper over time and uncapping capacity from headcount.

## Strategic Focus
- Replace traditional BPOs with AI-native operations across the financial back office.
- Expand into new markets, products, and customer segments without adding operational load.
- Deepen partnerships with regulated institutions and continue building out the agent ecosystem (templates, data sources, integrations).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include “sense of urgency”, “drivers not passengers”, “truth over comfort”, “partnership”, and “know your customers” – a high-ownership, impact-driven environment.
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: HQ in San Francisco, CA; roles listed in San Francisco and New York, NY. Likely in-office/hybrid based on job descriptions (no explicit remote policy stated).
- **Notable Perks & Engineering Culture**:
  - Mission-critical work: directly shaping how regulated financial institutions use AI.
  - Backed by top-tier investors (Greylock, Sapphire, YC) with strong engineering pedigree.
  - Salary ranges for key roles (from YC listings): Forward Deployed Engineer $168K–$213K, Software Engineer (Product) $170K–$200K, Software Engineer (Infrastructure) $168K–$213K, Enterprise Account Executive $220K–$300K (OTE).
  - Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI and financial compliance at scale.

## Sources
1. [bretton.com](https://www.bretton.com/)
2. [bretton.com/careers](https://www.bretton.com/careers)
3. [ycombinator.com/companies/bretton-ai](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bretton-ai)
4. [linkedin.com/company/bretton-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bretton-ai)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/brettonai](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/brettonai)

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