About RiskExec

RiskExec is a rapidly growing SaaS company that delivers a best-in-class compliance analytics and reporting platform to help financial institutions and lenders comply with key government regulations and unlock new growth opportunities.

Working at RiskExec

At RiskExec, we’re building a world class Compliance and Business Intelligence Platform trusted by regulated financial institutions including banks, credit unions, and fintech lenders. We help our clients confidently navigate complex regulatory requirements while achieving business growth. Our high-performing team thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment that requires maximum professionalism, flexibility, and responsiveness. We value driven individuals who embrace ownership and accountability, excel at collaborating closely with teammates, and dedicate themselves fully to delivering exceptional outcomes. 

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer focused on AI systems and intelligent automation to help scale RiskExec’s compliance platform and operate production AI capabilities inside regulated workflows. This is not a research role and not a demo factory. You will build and run customer-facing AI systems that reduce human review load, produce structured and explainable outputs, and hold up under audit scrutiny. You’ll own delivery end-to-end—from design and estimation through production support—while strengthening reliability, security, and governance across both deterministic services and probabilistic model behavior.

The ideal candidate has a strong track record shipping production software, deep backend engineering strength, and the judgment to safely integrate and operate LLM-driven systems inside compliance-critical products.

Location

Knoxville, TN (hybrid), Washington, DC (hybrid), Chicago, IL (hybrid), or United States (remote).

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of customer-facing product work: design, estimation, implementation, testing, release, and production support.
• Design, deploy, and operate production LLM systems inside RiskExec’s platform, including retrieval-augmented pipelines, agentic workflow automation with human-in-the-loop, and AI-orchestrated workflow acceleration with measurable ROI.
• Drive reliability and auditability for mixed deterministic + probabilistic systems: performance, security, observability, traceability, and safe fallbacks where AI is involved.
• Build and enforce strong API and data-layer contracts: predictable behavior, clear schemas, backward compatibility discipline, and defensible outputs.
• Establish and evolve AI evaluation and governance: prompt/model lifecycle management, offline + online evaluation pipelines, behavioral regression testing, and quantitative benchmarks tied to acceptance criteria.
• Decompose architecture and enforce service boundaries; modernize or replace legacy areas when it materially improves speed, quality, and maintainability.
• Raise engineering hygiene: readable code, pragmatic abstractions, tests that catch real risk, and documentation that makes change faster.

Qualifications

Required

• Typically 7+ years shipping production software with real users, real data, and real consequences.
• Strong backend engineering skills in C#/.NET (or equivalent), including API design, data modeling, performance tuning, and concurrency.
• Experience designing and operating distributed services with explicit contracts, versioning discipline, and backward compatibility.
• Deep SQL fluency (schema design, indexing strategy, query optimization); experience with SQL Server or Postgres.
• Demonstrated ownership: making architecture decisions, shipping, operating in production, and evolving systems over time.
• Experience integrating external APIs or model providers into production systems with clear failure handling and fallback logic.
• Ability to safely combine deterministic code with probabilistic model outputs (validation layers, schema enforcement, guardrails).
• Strong debugging and incident response skills with a bias toward root cause and durable fixes.
• Comfort in containerized/cloud environments (Azure/AWS/GCP) and understanding operational tradeoffs.
• Practical use of AI coding agents or copilots to accelerate development without compromising correctness, security, or maintainability.

Preferred

• Shipped production LLM systems (not prototypes): RAG pipelines, embeddings/vector search, tool/function calling, structured generation, multi-step agentic workflows.
• Experience tuning retrieval systems (chunking strategy, embedding selection, relevance scoring, hybrid search).
• Built evaluation frameworks for model behavior (offline eval datasets, regression testing, HITL review, measurable quality thresholds).
• AI observability: prompt tracing, response logging, drift detection, latency/cost monitoring, and output explainability.
• Experience building under regulatory, compliance, or audit scrutiny.
• Azure-native depth (App Services, Functions, AKS, storage patterns) and containerized deployments (Docker/Kubernetes).
• CI/CD maturity, infrastructure-as-code awareness, and strong production monitoring discipline.
• Strong TypeScript front-end architecture (React/Vue/Svelte) and component-level design rigor.
• End-to-end testing strategy (Playwright/Selenium) and pragmatic test pyramid judgment.
• Experience optimizing inference latency and cost at scale.

Why Join Our Team?

• You will have the opportunity to build and operate real AI systems inside a mission-critical compliance platform—shipping automation and explainable intelligence that customers can defend.
• You will collaborate with a team of innovators at the forefront of their industry.
• You will be part of a small, positive team who support and care about each other.
• You will receive an attractive compensation and benefits package, with the option to participate in RiskExec’s group benefit plans for health, dental, vision, and other insurance, as well as RiskExec’s 401(k) Plan, which includes a company match.

RiskExec’s Core Values

• WE PUT CUSTOMERS FIRST—We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do. We build strong, trusting partnerships by prioritizing open communication and responsiveness, ensuring our platform always aligns with their needs. Their success is our shared commitment.
• WE INNOVATE WITH PURPOSE—We build thoughtful, high-quality solutions that deliver maximum impact, strategically crafted to solve complex challenges with a best-in-class, evolving platform.
• WE ARE FAST—We deliver with speed and precision, acting quickly and nimbly without ever sacrificing accuracy. 
• WE ACT WITH INTEGRITY—We believe open honesty is the foundation of every strong relationship. We aim to build trust in every interaction, fostering reliable partnerships with our clients and within our team. 
• WE SUCCEED TOGETHER—We believe our collective strength drives our success. We move forward as one team, valuing diverse perspectives and fostering a culture of continuous learning and bold ideas to elevate each other.
• WE GROW AS A TEAM—We embrace every challenge as an opportunity to improve. When we fall short, we fix issues collaboratively, and prioritize solutions over blame.

This role offers the opportunity to ship regulated, production-grade AI automation, materially reduce manual compliance workflows, and strengthen how financial institutions make faster, fairer, defensible decisions.