Few people get to build a bank from scratch. Even fewer get to build one at a moment when banking itself is being reinvented.

The dollar is the best product in the history of the world with practically infinite global demand but distribution is broken. Global clearing runs on legacy banks that are closed 115 days a year built for humans and take two days to settle. Augustus is the update to the internet era. We received conditional approval from the OCC to charter Americas first stablecoin-native clearing bank that is always open made for machines at the speed of compute.

We are a group of operators unicorn early employees ex-founders and people who walked away from degrees because they believe this is an industry and career defining opportunity. Were backed with $40M from Peter Thiels Valar Ventures Creandum and founders of Ramp Deel and Circle.

We are regulated in Europe and live with Euro and Stablecoin clearing today. Now we are building the US team from the ground up while continuing to grow rapidly in Europe.

The Role

As Fincrime Operations Lead at Augustus you build the machine that runs our BSA/AML monitoring program. Compliance writes the specs - the rules the risk appetite the policies. You build the system that executes them. Automating decisions and engaging humans only for the highest risk or knife-edge decisions.

Your mission: take it from spec to production. Youre building infrastructure - decisioning rules automated investigation flows agent-run case handling and audit trails by default. Transaction monitoring sanctions and SAR pipelines - all of it becomes code you author deploy and version.

Were building the dark bank - a bank that runs mostly autonomously where operations are designed so the work doesnt emerge in the first place. Fincrime Ops is the sharpest expression of that thesis: legacy banks throw seas of analysts at queues. We design queues that shrink. Every alert you automate correctly is a flow that becomes machine-runnable. Every alert you patch with headcount is a flow that compounds the wrong way. Its ultimately your goal that headcount does not scale with transaction volume.

You work across Operations Product and Compliance to shape how the bank handles risk in practice. You partner with the BSA Officer and CCO daily - they write the requirements you build the machine. You are trusted with every decision you make.

Your First Six Months

In your first 6 months youll own the refinement and build out of Augustus BSA/AML engine - a complete documented system for how the bank detects investigates and dispositions risk at every stage from alert to filing. Tooling SOPs ownership escalation paths decisioning rules - and the agents that run them.

• Month 12: You get into the stack. You understand exactly how money moves through our infrastructure where the current compliance controls sit and where the gaps are. You build a clear picture of what needs to be automated what needs to be replaced and what can wait.

• Month 34: Ship the first wave of automations. Prove out the operating model on a live cohort. Drive measurable case-handling lift.

• Month 56: Automation lives across the alert lifecycle. Optimize skills and human in the loop processes to start scaling.

Who Will Thrive At Augustus

We believe that throwing smart people with high agency at big problems produces the best outcomes. The people who succeed here share the following traits:

• Relentless: You cant leave something broken. You dont stop because it got hard or because no one is watching.

• Set The Bar: Youre harder on yourself than anyone else would be. You dont need external accountability to care about quality.

• Shape The Game: You dont wait for a playbook and you dont need one. You walk into genuinely new territory and figure it out. You move before anyone asked you to.

• Systems First: You dont solve problems by adding people or effort. You build systems that make the problem smaller. Your first instinct is to automate not to handle it manually.

This job is for you if

• You reach for code before a queue. When you see an alert pattern your first instinct is what rule or model should have decisioned this not we need more analysts.

• You want to build the BSA/AML engine not staff one. Compliance writes the specs. You translate them into decisioning logic investigation flows and agents that run cases. If youve watched fincrime programs scale linearly with volume and thought this is solvable this is the job where you solve it.

• You can sit between Compliance and Engineering and speak both languages. You take a CCOs risk appetite and turn it into something a system can execute with audit trails by default. Neither side has to translate for you.

• You want to ship into production not write memos about shipping. Transaction monitoring sanctions SAR pipelines these become code you author deploy and version. If youve been the person whose best ideas died in a vendor procurement cycle youll appreciate that here you build them.

• You want decisions that are actually yours. You report to the COO partner daily with the BSA Officer and CCO and own the machine end-to-end. This suits someone whos hit the ceiling of executing other peoples compliance roadmaps.

This job is not for you if

• You measure your impact by the size of your team. Success here looks like alert volume going up while headcount stays flat. A growing analyst org is the failure mode not the goal.

• You prefer a mature program to a blank page. No Actimize tuned over five years no investigations playbook to inherit no QA team standing by. Youll be designing the system not optimizing within one.

• You see Compliance as a constraint to work around. The BSA Officer and CCO are your closest partners and they own the requirements. If Compliance said no is a phrase youve used with frustration rather than respect the partnership wont work.

• You want to spend most of your time on cases. Youll know the alert landscape intimately but the bulk of your week is building decisioning logic specifying agents and shaping infrastructure with Product and Engineering.

• Operations designed so the work doesnt emerge sounds like a marketing line to you. The dark bank thesis shapes every decision. Skepticism that fincrime ops can run this way means rowing against the current daily.

Hard Requirements

• 3 years in a fast-paced environment.

• Building products or processes at a bank fintech payments or crypto company or a tier 1 consulting background with regulated financial services exposure.

• AI native.

Pay transparency:

Compensation packages at Augustus include base salary equity and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidates experience expertise and geographic location. The annual US base salary range for this role is $150000-$180000 equity.

What We Offer

• Career Growth: You will be given more responsibility and pushed to grow faster than ever before.

• Network: Your peers are brilliant highly motivated people. These people will be foundational in your future opportunities.

• Real Participation: Employees are shareholders. You will think and act like an owner.

• Perks & Benefits: Relocation support visa support the latest Apple gear (MacBook AirPods) lunch benefit gym benefit a beautiful office in the heart of the city 4x on-/offsites per year and an annual development budget.

• Health & Insurance: Our US team receives comprehensive Medical Dental and Vision insurance plans. We are offering 401(k) retirement plans.

Augustus is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people from all backgrounds can thrive and where different viewpoints and experiences are valued and respected. Augustus will consider all applications for employment without regard to race ethnicity national origin religious beliefs gender identity or expression sexual orientation neurodiversity disability age parental or veteran status.