Senior Software Engineer, Identity Graph

About this role

ABOUT BASELAYER

Every business in America needs a bank account to exist. The system that decides whether they're real, who's behind them, and whether they're a risk, runs on infrastructure from the 1980s. We're rebuilding that layer from scratch.

Baselayer is the identity layer for institutions across the United States — the most complete business graph in America and every human tied to it. We fuse public records, IRS data, sanctions lists, web signals, and fraud telemetry from 2,200+ financial institutions into a single graph that resolves any business and the humans behind it in milliseconds. The legacy credit bureaus took 50 years to build something that gets 60% match rates. We've built something that gets 98% in under two years.

Today we're trusted by over 20% of financial institutions in America — including FIS, Rho, Socure and leading loan infrastructure providers. But the graph is becoming infrastructure for anyone who needs to know if a business is real and worth trusting: gig platforms, marketplaces, AI companies, and commerce infrastructure at scale.

Trust is the substrate of every financial transaction. We're rebuilding it.

ABOUT THE TEAM

We're solving real-time entity resolution at a scale no one else has cracked — fusing dozens of data sources into a single business identity graph and resolving any entity in milliseconds. It's a graph AI problem, a retrieval problem, and a fraud-modeling problem stacked on top of each other. The technical depth is real.

You'd be joining a small team where the data moat is defensible, the research problems are open, and the infrastructure you build becomes load-bearing for businesses. Ownership is real. Velocity is real. There's no layer of process between an idea and shipping it.

We're at an inflection point — the graph is built, the match rates speak for themselves, and the hardest problems are still ahead: graph embeddings, fraud propagation models across the business network, real-time traversal at sub-100ms latency, and expanding the identity layer beyond finance into every platform that needs to trust a business.

If you want to work on something foundational — the kind of infrastructure that gets built once, and everything else runs on top of — this is it.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Baselayer is building the most comprehensive, accurate, and continuously-current identity graph of US businesses and consumers. Every entity, officer, address, relationship, and public record we can responsibly source - ingested, normalized, linked, and kept fresh. That graph powers fraud detection, KYB onboarding, portfolio monitoring, sanctions screening, and a growing surface of customer-facing API products. We're hiring a senior engineer to own product features across that surface end-to-end: schema design, data ingestion, entity resolution, API endpoints, scope and multi-tenancy, and performance under real customer load.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Ingest and normalize heterogeneous public records into the graph, owning the full pipeline: ingestion to normalizer to repository to API surface.

• Build and maintain entity resolution and linking systems - matching the same business or person across sources where keys don't line up, names are misspelled, and addresses are formatted six different ways.

• Design and ship customer-facing APIs for search, lookup, monitoring, and webhook delivery - built for engineers who'll be live in production within a day of signing up.

• Own schema design and zero-downtime migrations on a database hot 24/7.

• Optimize performance and scale: query patterns for 10x volume, ingestion pipelines that finish before the next batch arrives, API latencies that don't drift as the graph deepens.

• Build multi-tenancy and access control: every query in the system scoped by org/user/permission at the data layer.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Shipped product features that touched ingestion to storage to API to customer, end-to-end, in production.

• Owned a Postgres schema that real money or real decisions depended on, and stayed on top of its evolution.

• Strong async Python with experience running async services at scale.

• Deep Postgres expertise: schema design under live load, EXPLAIN ANALYZE as a reflex, zero-downtime migration tooling.

• FastAPI (or close equivalent): shipped real APIs with auth dependencies, OpenAPI contracts, and structured response models.

• Built multi-tenant APIs where access control is load-bearing and scoped correctly at the data layer.

WHAT SETS YOU APART

• Entity resolution / record linkage / fuzzy matching at scale.

• Search infrastructure - full-text, fuzzy, or vector - kept in sync with a Postgres system of record.

• KYC/KYB/fraud/underwriting data-pipeline experience.

• Address parsing/normalization at country scale.

• Webhook delivery infrastructure: retries, signing, idempotency, and ordering guarantees.

• GCP experience with Cloud Run, Cloud Tasks, Cloud SQL, and batch pipelines.

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