Software Engineer - Agents

About Tensec

Founded in 2023, Tensec is a global fintech that enables small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to enter global trade and thrive by providing them with user-friendly, efficient, and secure global transaction banking solutions. Our founders have a wealth of experience driving startups to success, leading decacorns, and managing global teams at companies such as PayPal, Credit Karma, Facebook, Goldman Sachs, Visa, Mastercard, and American Express. We are assembling a world-class team to disrupt the $50 trillion cross-border B2B financial services industry by giving SMBs the financial strength to participate and win globally. We believe that successful companies and teams are directly correlated to their cultural DNA. At Tensec, we strive to create a culture that unleashes both human and organizational potential, fostering a mission-driven, high-performing team.

About The Role

You will own two critical aspects simultaneously: the shared agentic infrastructure that powers intelligent workflows at Tensec, and the agents and product features that run on top of it. You will design and build the core agentic infrastructure, including orchestration, tool execution, context and session management, policy controls, and observability. You will also develop and deploy agents that automate real financial workflows across operations, compliance, and treasury, from transaction document review to Know Your Business and sanctions screening. You will 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. You will also evaluate and monitor systems to ensure accuracy, reliability, and safety in a regulated financial environment. You will write clean, reliable, well-tested, well-documented code, and define best practices for development, testing, deployment, and monitoring. You will proactively monitor, identify, and resolve production issues to keep the experience fast, secure, and reliable. You will contribute to engineering standards, code reviews, and the technical growth of the team. You will stay updated on industry trends and bring new tools, patterns, and ideas to improve our systems.

What You'll Do

• 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
• 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
• Drive build versus buy decisions on third-party components, integrate where it accelerates us, own what matters for reliability and trust
• 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

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of backend software engineering with a track record of shipping production systems end to end
• 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
• Strong fundamentals across APIs, distributed systems, databases, and cloud-native architecture
• Comfortable moving between infrastructure thinking and hands-on product iteration, you don't stay in one lane
• Comfortable owning ambiguous problems, you can scope, build, ship, and iterate without a lot of hand-holding
• 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

Compensation, Benefits And Perks

The expected salary range for this role is $182,000 – $230,000 per year. Actual compensation will depend on experience, skills, and qualifications. Medical, dental, and vision benefits are provided. Employees receive 15 days of paid time off, a learning and development budget, and equity. The role follows a hybrid model, requiring 2-3 days per week in the Palo Alto office. Tensec is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to growing a diverse and inclusive team. We encourage everyone to share which pronouns they wish for us to use when addressing them (i.e., she/her, he/him, they/them). We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you require an accommodation during the application or interview process. Compensation Range: $182K - $230K