Tensec
Software Engineer - Agents
Palo Alto · Exec
Sponsorship not specified$182k-$230kDetected 60 days ago
PythonNode.jsDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentCode ReviewAWSCI/CDNLPLLMsAgentic AIAI Orchestration
About the role
- One day you're designing the context management system that every agent depends on.
- The next you're shipping an agent that automates a workflow for our operations or treasury team - or a feature that a customer interacts with directly.
- You'll be expected to understand the business problems behind the work, not just execute on specs.
Responsibilities
- Design and build the core agentic infrastructure at Tensec: orchestration, tool execution, context and session management, policy controls, and observability
- Build, ship, and operate agents that automate real financial workflows across operations, compliance, and treasury, from transaction document review to Know Your Business and sanctions screening
- Drive build versus buy decisions on third-party components, integrate where it accelerates us, own what matters for reliability and trust
- Build evaluation and monitoring systems to ensure agents are accurate, reliable, and safe in a regulated financial environment
- Hands-on experience building and shipping agentic systems or large language model-powered workflows in production
- Strong product sense: you understand business needs, think from the end user's perspective, and care about whether what you ship actually creates value
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend software engineering with a track record of shipping production systems end to end
- Experience in an early-stage startup or demonstrated ability to work at that pace
- Node.js or Python backend experience
- comfort with AWS and modern CI/CD tooling
- Experience or genuine interest in regulated industries where correctness and compliance are non-negotiable
- Experience working with LLM APIs and agent frameworks
- Familiarity with orchestration frameworks, tool use, Model Context Protocol surfaces, or evaluation pipelines
Skills
- Write clean, reliable, well-tested, well-documented code, and define best practices for development, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
- Proactively monitor, identify, and resolve production issues to keep the experience fast, secure, and reliable.
- Contribute to engineering standards, code review, and the technical growth of the team
- Stay on top of where the industry is heading - and bring new tools, patterns, and ideas back to make our systems better
- Work effectively with people across time zones and regions
Compensation
- Compensation, Benefits and Perks
Company info
- Ship product features end to end, from backend services and APIs to experiences built on top of agentic capabilities, serving both internal and external customers
- Founded in 2023, Tensec is a global fintech that enables small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to enter global trade and thrive by giving them access to global transaction banking solutions that are user-friendly, efficient, and secure.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Tensec founders have driven startups from foundation to exit, built decacorns, and led global teams at companies such as PayPal, Credit Karma, Facebook, Goldman Sachs, Visa, Mastercard, and American Express.
This listing is sourced directly from Tensec's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.