ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for a Tech Lead – Backend to join our Colombo office and take a leading role in building the intelligence layer of our AI-native risk and compliance platform. You will own critical backend systems end-to-end, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to architectural decisions that shape how we deliver transformative RegTech solutions to financial institutions worldwide.

This is the right opportunity for you if you have a strong backend foundation, a genuine excitement for modern AI technologies, and the drive to solve hard problems at the intersection of graph data, LLMs, and real-world regulatory systems.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs that power our AI-driven risk and compliance platform
• Lead the architecture and implementation of RAG pipelines, LLM integrations, and AI workflows within the backend intelligence layer
• Work with Neo4j and graph data models to represent complex risk relationships and regulatory structures
• Define and enforce backend engineering best practices, code quality standards, and review processes across the team
• Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and risk domain experts to translate compliance requirements into robust technical solutions
• Own delivery end to end from design and implementation through testing, deployment, and monitoring on AWS
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, pairing sessions, and technical guidance
• Contribute to strategic technical discussions and help shape the team's roadmap for AI and backend capabilities
• Stay current with developments in AI, LLMs, and graph technologies and identify opportunities to apply them in our product

WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a closely related technical discipline or professional certifications in cloud, AI, or security (e.g. AWS Certified Developer, Google Professional ML Engineer, Neo4j Certified Professional)
• 5+ years of hands-on backend engineering experience, with a strong command of Python and RESTful or GraphQL API design
• Proven experience building and integrating AI or ML components, including LLMs, vector search, or RAG architectures into production systems
• Solid understanding of graph databases, ideally Neo4j, and comfort modelling complex domain relationships
• Experience deploying and operating backend services on AWS (Lambda, ECS, RDS, S3, or similar)
• Demonstrated ability to lead technically whether through architecture decisions, code reviews, or cross-functional collaboration
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders clearly
• A structured approach to problem-solving, with high attention to detail and a bias for clean, maintainable code
• Comfort working in ambiguous, evolving environments where requirements are shaped collaboratively

WHAT YOU'LL GAIN

• Competitive foreign currency salary
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI-native products shaping the future of risk and compliance
• A senior voice in backend architecture decisions at a growing RegTech company
• Deep hands-on exposure to AI, graph technologies, and financial risk systems
• A culture built on trust, learning, and solving genuinely hard problems that matter to financial institutions worldwide

You will be part of a team that values trust, learning, and working together to solve interesting problems at the frontier of AI and risk engineering. Your work will directly shape the experiences of risk, compliance, and audit professionals at some of the world's leading financial institutions. Come join us!

Please submit your CV to [email protected] and quote "Tech Lead – Backend " in the subject line.