# Software Engineer (Tech Lead)

About Kobalt Labs Kobalt is the AI-native compliance operating system for financial institutions (FIs). Compliance is critical for FIs to get right, but most of their work still happens manually, in legacy technology or Excel. Banks, credit unions, and fintechs across the country use Kobalt to run third party due diligence, screen marketing collateral, and stay current with the ever-changing regulatory landscape. Since our Series A, we've grown revenue more than 5x and work with some of the most notable names in financial services, including Chime, Upstart, and Affirm. The Role Engineers at Kobalt own products end-to-end, from understanding the customer problem and shaping the technical approach through building, shipping, and operating the solution in production. As a Tech Lead, you'll own and drive a major area of Kobalt's product. You'll be responsible for its technical direction and execution, working closely with customers to deeply understand the problems we're solving, determine what we should build, make the architectural decisions behind it, and lead other engineers in getting it shipped. This is a Staff+ level role, but a highly hands-on one. We're looking for exceptional

- **Id**: 1326146
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/kobalt-labs-software-engineer-tech-lead>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-27T03:36:18Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T09:53:05Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 47
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3476
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: RegTech, AML & Compliance

## Company

- **Id**: 3778881
- **Name**: Kobalt Labs
- **Domain**: kobaltlabs.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/kobalt-labs>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Work at a Startup

## Salary

- **Min**: 250000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 250000

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 47

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-27T03:36:18Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 24
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.529
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 46
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 250000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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