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 - there is infinite global demand. But international fintechs and banks are left with two unsatisfying options to choose from: Either build on legacy correspondent banks that are slow and unreliable, or interface with middleware providers that neither move nor hold the dollars directly, but instead rely on underlying legacy banks themselves. At Augustus, we collapse the stack by combining two things: A real, national bank charter (in organization), and Marble, our proprietary core banking system, built around intelligence, made of code.
We are a group of ex-founders, founding employees of unicorns, and people who dropped out of university because they believe this is an industry and career defining opportunity. We are backed with more than $200M from Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Hummingbird, QED, Creandum, and the founders of Nubank, Ramp, Deel, Circle, Fluidstack, Fuse, and Etched.
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.
We’re looking for three engineers to join each cohort of the Augustus Engineering Fellowship. You’ll spend 3–6 months in Berlin working on agentic projects with the team building our bank - the infrastructure connecting economies to the Western financial system.
We have a backlog of problems we want to solve, and you’re welcome to bring your own ideas. You might build background coding agents, work on the infrastructure they need to run reliably, or use agents to solve a problem in banking operations.
During the fellowship, you’ll own one project or several smaller ones. You’ll figure out what to build, make the technical decisions, and see it through to use. Our engineers will work with you, review your code, and help when you get stuck. You’ll have room to experiment, with a dedicated stipend covering unlimited AI token usage.
You’re smart, work hard, and get things done without needing someone to map out steps for you. When you don’t understand something, you dig into it.
You don’t need years of experience. We’d like to see something you’ve built and hear how you approached it: what you did yourself, what was difficult, and what you’d do differently now.
We explicitly want to convert exceptional fellows into full time engineers. We look at the quality of your work, how independently you work, and how much agency you show paired with if you follow through.
Three fellows per cohort, with two cohorts each year.
3–6 months, in person in Berlin.
A dedicated stipend covering unlimited AI token usage for your work.
Full-time offer, if you perform.
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.
Additional to the global benefits above, we offer localized benefits such as comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance and a 401(k) retirement plan for our US team.
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.
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We are backed with more than $200M from Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Hummingbird, QED, Creandum, and the founders of Nubank, Ramp, Deel, Circle, Fluidstack, Fuse, and Etched.\n\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nTHE ROLE\n\nWe’re looking for three engineers to join each cohort of the Augustus Engineering Fellowship. You’ll spend 3–6 months in Berlin working on agentic projects with the team building our bank - the infrastructure connecting economies to the Western financial system.\n\nWe have a backlog of problems we want to solve, and you’re welcome to bring your own ideas. You might build background coding agents, work on the infrastructure they need to run reliably, or use agents to solve a problem in banking operations.\n\nDuring the fellowship, you’ll own one project or several smaller ones. You’ll figure out what to build, make the technical decisions, and see it through to use. Our engineers will work with you, review your code, and help when you get stuck. You’ll have room to experiment, with a dedicated stipend covering unlimited AI token usage.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE LOOK FOR\n\nYou’re smart, work hard, and get things done without needing someone to map out steps for you. When you don’t understand something, you dig into it.\n\nYou don’t need years of experience. We’d like to see something you’ve built and hear how you approached it: what you did yourself, what was difficult, and what you’d do differently now.\n\nWe explicitly want to convert exceptional fellows into full time engineers. We look at the quality of your work, how independently you work, and how much agency you show paired with if you follow through.\n\n\n\n\nDETAILS\n\n - Three fellows per cohort, with two cohorts each year.\n\n - 3–6 months, in person in Berlin.\n\n - A dedicated stipend covering unlimited AI token usage for your work.\n\n - Full-time offer, if you perform.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE OFFER\n\n - Career Growth: You will be given more responsibility and pushed to grow faster than ever before.\n\n - Network: Your peers are brilliant, highly motivated people. These people will be foundational in your future opportunities.\n\n - Real Participation: Employees are shareholders. You will think and act like an owner.\n\n - 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.\n\nAdditional to the global benefits above, we offer localized benefits such as comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance and a 401(k) retirement plan for our US team.\n\n\n\nAugustus is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people from all backgrounds can thrive and where different viewpoints and experiences are valued and respected. 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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 - there is infinite global demand. But international fintechs and banks are left with two unsatisfying options to choose from: Either build on legacy correspondent banks that are slow and unreliable, or interface with middleware providers that neither move nor hold the dollars directly, but instead rely on underlying legacy banks themselves. At Augustus, we collapse the stack by combining two things: A real, national bank charter (in organization), and Marble, our proprietary core banking system, built around intelligence, made of code.
We are a group of ex-founders, founding employees of unicorns, and people who dropped out of university because they believe this is an industry and career defining opportunity. We are backed with more than $200M from Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Hummingbird, QED, Creandum, and the founders of Nubank, Ramp, Deel, Circle, Fluidstack, Fuse, and Etched.
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.
You own Banking Experience: the accounts at the center of customer's relationship with the bank, and the API and dashboards they use to manage them.
In this role you’re responsible for redefining what beautiful software in banking looks like. You'll define account structures that give customers powerful building blocks for their products, and craft intuitive interfaces grounded in a deep understanding of their use cases and workflows.
You report to Will, Head of Product, and work closely with Simon, our CTO. You're expected to operate with full autonomy on your team's roadmap, collaborating with design and engineering.
Months 1-2: Take over day-to-day ownership of the Banking Experience team - the roadmap, the ways of working, the hard decisions. Establish yourself with customers and how they use our accounts. You define and ship your first project.
Months 3-4: Execution mode. You're unblocking engineering daily, making hard prioritization calls, and shipping your roadmap to customers. You're proactively raising the bar across accounts, API, and dashboard by feeding what you learn from customers into the product.
Months 5-6: You're working with live customers on the products you've built. Deposits and number of account holders are scaling. You've moved from execution to platform mode - evolving the roadmap based on what our customers are building on top of Augustus.
We believe that throwing smart people with high agency at big problems produces the best outcomes. We’re building a modern correspondent bank, and we win by having a better team. The people who succeed here share the following traits:
American Dream: You’d rather shoot for gold than settle for mediocrity. You pick the harder goal and stay optimistic when the odds are against you. If it feels easy, we aimed too low.
Live Player: You don’t need permission. You rebuild what’s broken without being asked, challenge how things are done, and move before the perfect moment.
Ever to Excel: You can’t accept good enough and you take your work personally. When it matters, you do what it takes and keep raising the bar for yourself and your team.
Genuine: You play for the company, not your title or turf. Low ego, low drama, no politics. You say it straight, also upwards and always assume good intent.
This role is for you if:
You want to spend time with customers to intimately understand and then innovate on their workflows.
You’re a structured and relentless problem solver.
You combine first-principles thinking with deep domain knowledge to make complex processes simple.
You have taste and care deeply about the quality of what you build.
You leverage AI to push the boundaries of what a PM can do.
You’re excited about building a programmable bank and helping shape what that means.
Experience end-to-end owning and building banking, fintech, or developer platform products.
Technical enough to spar on architectural decisions with engineers - you're comfortable in API design discussions, not just UI reviews.
You have strong opinions on information architecture and how to organize complex products so they feel simple.
Comfortable in customer-facing roles - you've pitched, demoed, and can close early adopters.
Based in Berlin or New York, or willing to relocate.
Compensation packages at Augustus include base salary, equity, and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise and geographic location. The annual US base salary range for this role is €90,000-€120,000 + equity.
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.
Additional to the global benefits above, we offer localized benefits such as comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance and a 401(k) retirement plan for our US team.
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.
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We are backed with more than $200M from Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Hummingbird, QED, Creandum, and the founders of Nubank, Ramp, Deel, Circle, Fluidstack, Fuse, and Etched.\n\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nTHE ROLE\n\nYou own Banking Experience: the accounts at the center of customer's relationship with the bank, and the API and dashboards they use to manage them.\n\nIn this role you’re responsible for redefining what beautiful software in banking looks like. You'll define account structures that give customers powerful building blocks for their products, and craft intuitive interfaces grounded in a deep understanding of their use cases and workflows.\n\nYou report to Will, Head of Product, and work closely with Simon, our CTO. You're expected to operate with full autonomy on your team's roadmap, collaborating with design and engineering.\n\n\n\n\nYOUR FIRST SIX MONTHS\n\n - Months 1-2: Take over day-to-day ownership of the Banking Experience team - the roadmap, the ways of working, the hard decisions. Establish yourself with customers and how they use our accounts. You define and ship your first project.\n\n - Months 3-4: Execution mode. You're unblocking engineering daily, making hard prioritization calls, and shipping your roadmap to customers. You're proactively raising the bar across accounts, API, and dashboard by feeding what you learn from customers into the product.\n\n - Months 5-6: You're working with live customers on the products you've built. Deposits and number of account holders are scaling. You've moved from execution to platform mode - evolving the roadmap based on what our customers are building on top of Augustus.\n\n\n\n\nWHO WILL THRIVE AT AUGUSTUS\n\nWe believe that throwing smart people with high agency at big problems produces the best outcomes. We’re building a modern correspondent bank, and we win by having a better team. The people who succeed here share the following traits:\n\n - American Dream: You’d rather shoot for gold than settle for mediocrity. You pick the harder goal and stay optimistic when the odds are against you. If it feels easy, we aimed too low.\n\n - Live Player: You don’t need permission. You rebuild what’s broken without being asked, challenge how things are done, and move before the perfect moment.\n\n - Ever to Excel: You can’t accept good enough and you take your work personally. When it matters, you do what it takes and keep raising the bar for yourself and your team.\n\n - Genuine: You play for the company, not your title or turf. Low ego, low drama, no politics. You say it straight, also upwards and always assume good intent.\n\nThis role is for you if:\n\n - You want to spend time with customers to intimately understand and then innovate on their workflows.\n\n - You’re a structured and relentless problem solver.\n\n - You combine first-principles thinking with deep domain knowledge to make complex processes simple.\n\n - You have taste and care deeply about the quality of what you build.\n\n - You leverage AI to push the boundaries of what a PM can do.\n\n - You’re excited about building a programmable bank and helping shape what that means.\n\n\n\n\nHARD REQUIREMENTS\n\n - Experience end-to-end owning and building banking, fintech, or developer platform products.\n\n - Technical enough to spar on architectural decisions with engineers - you're comfortable in API design discussions, not just UI reviews.\n\n - You have strong opinions on information architecture and how to organize complex products so they feel simple.\n\n - Comfortable in customer-facing roles - you've pitched, demoed, and can close early adopters.\n\n - Based in Berlin or New York, or willing to relocate.\n\n\n\n\nPAY TRANSPARENCY\n\nCompensation packages at Augustus include base salary, equity, and benefits. 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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 - there is infinite global demand. But international fintechs and banks are left with two unsatisfying options to choose from: Either build on legacy correspondent banks that are slow and unreliable, or interface with middleware providers that neither move nor hold the dollars directly, but instead rely on underlying legacy banks themselves. At Augustus, we collapse the stack by combining two things: A real, national bank charter (in organization), and Marble, our proprietary core banking system, built around intelligence, made of code.
We are a group of ex-founders, founding employees of unicorns, and people who dropped out of university because they believe this is an industry and career defining opportunity. We are backed with more than $200M from Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Hummingbird, QED, Creandum, and the founders of Nubank, Ramp, Deel, Circle, Fluidstack, Fuse, and Etched.
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.
You will be one of the first engineers on the ground in the states, in our new NYC office. You're a super IC in a small, elite engineering team. You work on core banking systems and own projects end to end. You take on big projects, drive them yourself, and deliver.
You work with engineering, product, and clients. You turn complex financial problems into clean code. You're trusted with the big calls from day 1; system design, technical tradeoffs, what we build and what we don't. The team is small on purpose, that means you have a lot of ownership, you move fast, and you make decisions that actually matter.
You're part of the product engineering team building the Programmable Bank - a bank for the new age of money movement, built around Digital Assets and AI. Your team builds the banking core across bare metal central bank infrastructure and blockchain infrastructure. We're building a Swiss clock: your job is precision engineering, translating a complex system into simple, clean code that runs reliably at scale.
Understand the codebase and increase your ownership rapidly.
Months 1-2: You ramp up fast. Understand the codebase, the domain, the product and ship meaningful code in your first weeks. Pick up a major project as an IC and start driving it. You're pairing with the team but operating independently early.
Months 3-4: You've shipped your first big project end to end. You know the domain well enough to push back on product decisions when something doesn't make sense. You're starting to influence technical direction - how we model data, how we handle edge cases, where we take shortcuts and where we don't.
Months 5-6: You're one of the people the team relies on for the hardest problems. You scope and drive projects autonomously. You have strong opinions on how the core banking systems should evolve and you're acting on them. Junior engineers come to you because your code is clean and your thinking is clear.
We believe that throwing smart people with high agency at big problems produces the best outcomes. We’re building a modern correspondent bank, and we win by having a better team. The people who succeed here share the following traits:
American Dream: You’d rather shoot for gold than settle for mediocrity. You pick the harder goal and stay optimistic when the odds are against you. If it feels easy, we aimed too low.
Live Player: You don’t need permission. You rebuild what’s broken without being asked, challenge how things are done, and move before the perfect moment.
Ever to Excel: You can’t accept good enough and you take your work personally. When it matters, you do what it takes and keep raising the bar for yourself and your team.
Genuine: You play for the company, not your title or turf. Low ego, low drama, no politics. You say it straight, also upwards and always assume good intent.
This role is for you if:
Your former teammates would put you in the top 5% of engineers they've worked with - your code is clean, correct, and easy to delete.
You merge your PR today, not tomorrow. You ship and iterate rather than wait for perfection.
You want to build core banking systems that handle real money, not another CRUD app.
You care about simplicity more than cleverness.
You'd rather own a problem end to end than wait for someone to hand you a spec.
You want to work alongside people who are genuinely great at what they do.
This is not for you if:
You think that a new fancy pattern or architecture principle will solve all your problems.
You think \"that's not my problem\" is an acceptable answer.
You can not follow other team member’s decisions.
You are closing your macbook at 5pm sharp and don’t care about your work.
You are not passionate about what you do.
3+ years of hands-on software engineering experience (backend-focused).
1+ years in early-stage or small startup environments.
Based in New York or willing to relocate.
Compensation packages at Augustus include base salary, equity, and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise and geographic location. The annual US base salary range for this role is $200,000-$400,000 + equity.
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.
Additional to the global benefits above, we offer localized benefits such as comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance and a 401(k) retirement plan for our US team.
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.
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We are backed with more than $200M from Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Hummingbird, QED, Creandum, and the founders of Nubank, Ramp, Deel, Circle, Fluidstack, Fuse, and Etched.\n\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nTHE ROLE\n\nYou will be one of the first engineers on the ground in the states, in our new NYC office. You're a super IC in a small, elite engineering team. You work on core banking systems and own projects end to end. You take on big projects, drive them yourself, and deliver.\n\nYou work with engineering, product, and clients. You turn complex financial problems into clean code. You're trusted with the big calls from day 1; system design, technical tradeoffs, what we build and what we don't. The team is small on purpose, that means you have a lot of ownership, you move fast, and you make decisions that actually matter.\n\nYou're part of the product engineering team building the Programmable Bank - a bank for the new age of money movement, built around Digital Assets and AI. Your team builds the banking core across bare metal central bank infrastructure and blockchain infrastructure. We're building a Swiss clock: your job is precision engineering, translating a complex system into simple, clean code that runs reliably at scale.\n\n\n\n\nYOUR FIRST SIX MONTHS\n\nUnderstand the codebase and increase your ownership rapidly.\n\n - Months 1-2: You ramp up fast. Understand the codebase, the domain, the product and ship meaningful code in your first weeks. Pick up a major project as an IC and start driving it. You're pairing with the team but operating independently early.\n\n - Months 3-4: You've shipped your first big project end to end. You know the domain well enough to push back on product decisions when something doesn't make sense. You're starting to influence technical direction - how we model data, how we handle edge cases, where we take shortcuts and where we don't.\n\n - Months 5-6: You're one of the people the team relies on for the hardest problems. You scope and drive projects autonomously. You have strong opinions on how the core banking systems should evolve and you're acting on them. Junior engineers come to you because your code is clean and your thinking is clear.\n\n\n\nWHO WILL THRIVE AT AUGUSTUS\n\nWe believe that throwing smart people with high agency at big problems produces the best outcomes. We’re building a modern correspondent bank, and we win by having a better team. The people who succeed here share the following traits:\n\n - American Dream: You’d rather shoot for gold than settle for mediocrity. You pick the harder goal and stay optimistic when the odds are against you. If it feels easy, we aimed too low.\n\n - Live Player: You don’t need permission. You rebuild what’s broken without being asked, challenge how things are done, and move before the perfect moment.\n\n - Ever to Excel: You can’t accept good enough and you take your work personally. When it matters, you do what it takes and keep raising the bar for yourself and your team.\n\n - Genuine: You play for the company, not your title or turf. Low ego, low drama, no politics. You say it straight, also upwards and always assume good intent.\n\n\n\nThis role is for you if:\n\n - Your former teammates would put you in the top 5% of engineers they've worked with - your code is clean, correct, and easy to delete.\n\n - You merge your PR today, not tomorrow. You ship and iterate rather than wait for perfection.\n\n - You want to build core banking systems that handle real money, not another CRUD app.\n\n - You care about simplicity more than cleverness.\n\n - You'd rather own a problem end to end than wait for someone to hand you a spec.\n\n - You want to work alongside people who are genuinely great at what they do.\n\nThis is not for you if:\n\n - You think that a new fancy pattern or architecture principle will solve all your problems.\n\n - You think \"that's not my problem\" is an acceptable answer.\n\n - You can not follow other team member’s decisions.\n\n - You are closing your macbook at 5pm sharp and don’t care about your work.\n\n - You are not passionate about what you do.\n\n\n\n\nHARD REQUIREMENTS\n\n - 3+ years of hands-on software engineering experience (backend-focused).\n\n - 1+ years in early-stage or small startup environments.\n\n - Based in New York or willing to relocate.\n \n \n\n\nPAY TRANSPARENCY\n\nCompensation packages at Augustus include base salary, equity, and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise and geographic location. The annual US base salary range for this role is $200,000-$400,000 + equity.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE OFFER\n\n - Career Growth: You will be given more responsibility and pushed to grow faster than ever before.\n\n - Network: Your peers are brilliant, highly motivated people. These people will be foundational in your future opportunities.\n\n - Real Participation: Employees are shareholders. You will think and act like an owner.\n\n - 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.\n\nAdditional to the global benefits above, we offer localized benefits such as comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance and a 401(k) retirement plan for our US team.\n\n\n\nAugustus is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people from all backgrounds can thrive and where different viewpoints and experiences are valued and respected. 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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 - there is infinite global demand. But international fintechs and banks are left with two unsatisfying options to choose from: Either build on legacy correspondent banks that are slow and unreliable, or interface with middleware providers that neither move nor hold the dollars directly, but instead rely on underlying legacy banks themselves. At Augustus, we collapse the stack by combining two things: A real, national bank charter (in organization), and Marble, our proprietary core banking system, built around intelligence, made of code.
We are a group of ex-founders, founding employees of unicorns, and people who dropped out of university because they believe this is an industry and career defining opportunity. We are backed with more than $200M from Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Hummingbird, QED, Creandum, and the founders of Nubank, Ramp, Deel, Circle, Fluidstack, Fuse, and Etched.
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.
As Operations Lead at Augustus, you will own and lead one of the core operational domains of the bank end-to-end. Our operations are organized around customer workflows - customer operations, payment operations, fincrime operations - and each domain runs like a product team. You own its processes, SOPs, KPIs, tooling, automations and the agents that run them.
We're building a dark bank, a bank that runs mostly autonomously, where operations are designed so the work doesn't emerge in the first place. Legacy banks scale operations with people. We build systems that make the work disappear.
You design the system. You set the metrics that prove it works. You build the agents that run it. You work across Operations, Product, Engineering, and Compliance.
Months 1-2: Do the manual work yourself. Sit in the queue, run the cases, see where the process breaks. Take ownership of the domain as it exists today and define the KPIs that will tell you whether the system is working.
Months 3-4: Ship the first wave of automations. Prove the operating model on a live cohort. Drive a measurable lift with the flows you've rebuilt.
Months 5-6: Agents live across the domain. The long tail runs hands-off, humans handle only the highest-risk or knife-edge decisions. Scale the system - not the team.
We believe that throwing smart people with high agency at big problems produces the best outcomes. We’re building a modern correspondent bank, and we win by having a better team. The people who succeed here share the following traits:
American Dream: You’d rather shoot for gold than settle for mediocrity. You pick the harder goal and stay optimistic when the odds are against you. If it feels easy, we aimed too low.
Live Player: You don’t need permission. You rebuild what’s broken without being asked, challenge how things are done, and move before the perfect moment.
Ever to Excel: You can’t accept good enough and you take your work personally. When it matters, you do what it takes and keep raising the bar for yourself and your team.
Genuine: You play for the company, not your title or turf. Low ego, low drama, no politics. You say it straight, also upwards and always assume good intent.
This role is for you if:
You want to build an operating model: the SOPs, KPIs, escalation paths and tooling. You draft them, defend them and rewrite them when they break.
You've done the work you'd be automating. The best automations come from people who've felt where the process breaks - you go deep into the weeds precisely so you can engineer your way out of them.
You spec agents and shape tooling directly with Engineering and Product.
You want decisions that are actually yours. You own your domain end-to-end.
This is not for you if:
You measure your impact by the size of your team. Success here looks like volume multiplying while headcount stays flat.
You prefer a mature playbook to a blank page. Nothing tuned over five years, no vendor stack to administer, no team standing by.
You've outgrown the queue. Before anything gets automated here, someone has to run the cases by hand and understand them completely - including you.
\"Mostly autonomous operations\" sounds like a marketing line to you. The dark bank thesis shapes every decision. Skepticism about it means rowing against the current daily.
3+ years building products or processes at a bank, fintech, payments, or crypto company - or a tier-1 consulting background with regulated financial services exposure.
You've shipped automations or agents that run in production today, not proofs of concept.
Based in New York or Berlin, or willing to relocate.
Compensation packages at Augustus include base salary, equity, and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise and geographic location. The annual US base salary range for this role is $180,000-$250,000 + equity.
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.
Additional to the global benefits above, we offer localized benefits such as comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance and a 401(k) retirement plan for our US team.
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.
","descriptionPlain":"Few people get to build a bank from scratch. Even fewer get to build one at a moment when banking itself is being reinvented.\n\n\nThe Dollar is the best product in the history of the world - there is infinite global demand. But international fintechs and banks are left with two unsatisfying options to choose from: Either build on legacy correspondent banks that are slow and unreliable, or interface with middleware providers that neither move nor hold the dollars directly, but instead rely on underlying legacy banks themselves. At Augustus, we collapse the stack by combining two things: A real, national bank charter (in organization), and Marble, our proprietary core banking system, built around intelligence, made of code.\n\n\nWe are a group of ex-founders, founding employees of unicorns, and people who dropped out of university because they believe this is an industry and career defining opportunity. We are backed with more than $200M from Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Hummingbird, QED, Creandum, and the founders of Nubank, Ramp, Deel, Circle, Fluidstack, Fuse, and Etched.\n\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nTHE ROLE\n\nAs Operations Lead at Augustus, you will own and lead one of the core operational domains of the bank end-to-end. Our operations are organized around customer workflows - customer operations, payment operations, fincrime operations - and each domain runs like a product team. You own its processes, SOPs, KPIs, tooling, automations and the agents that run them.\n\nWe're building a dark bank, a bank that runs mostly autonomously, where operations are designed so the work doesn't emerge in the first place. Legacy banks scale operations with people. We build systems that make the work disappear. \n\nYou design the system. You set the metrics that prove it works. You build the agents that run it. You work across Operations, Product, Engineering, and Compliance. \n\n\n\n\nYOUR FIRST SIX MONTHS\n\n - Months 1-2: Do the manual work yourself. Sit in the queue, run the cases, see where the process breaks. Take ownership of the domain as it exists today and define the KPIs that will tell you whether the system is working.\n\n - Months 3-4: Ship the first wave of automations. Prove the operating model on a live cohort. Drive a measurable lift with the flows you've rebuilt.\n\n - Months 5-6: Agents live across the domain. The long tail runs hands-off, humans handle only the highest-risk or knife-edge decisions. Scale the system - not the team.\n\n\n\n\nWHO WILL THRIVE AT AUGUSTUS\n\nWe believe that throwing smart people with high agency at big problems produces the best outcomes. We’re building a modern correspondent bank, and we win by having a better team. The people who succeed here share the following traits:\n\n - American Dream: You’d rather shoot for gold than settle for mediocrity. You pick the harder goal and stay optimistic when the odds are against you. If it feels easy, we aimed too low.\n\n - Live Player: You don’t need permission. You rebuild what’s broken without being asked, challenge how things are done, and move before the perfect moment.\n\n - Ever to Excel: You can’t accept good enough and you take your work personally. When it matters, you do what it takes and keep raising the bar for yourself and your team.\n\n - Genuine: You play for the company, not your title or turf. Low ego, low drama, no politics. You say it straight, also upwards and always assume good intent.\n\n\n\nThis role is for you if:\n\n - You want to build an operating model: the SOPs, KPIs, escalation paths and tooling. You draft them, defend them and rewrite them when they break.\n\n - You've done the work you'd be automating. The best automations come from people who've felt where the process breaks - you go deep into the weeds precisely so you can engineer your way out of them.\n\n - You spec agents and shape tooling directly with Engineering and Product.\n\n - You want decisions that are actually yours. You own your domain end-to-end.\n\nThis is not for you if:\n\n - You measure your impact by the size of your team. Success here looks like volume multiplying while headcount stays flat. \n\n - You prefer a mature playbook to a blank page. Nothing tuned over five years, no vendor stack to administer, no team standing by. \n\n - You've outgrown the queue. Before anything gets automated here, someone has to run the cases by hand and understand them completely - including you.\n\n - \"Mostly autonomous operations\" sounds like a marketing line to you. The dark bank thesis shapes every decision. Skepticism about it means rowing against the current daily.\n\n\n\n\nHARD REQUIREMENTS\n\n - 3+ years building products or processes at a bank, fintech, payments, or crypto company - or a tier-1 consulting background with regulated financial services exposure.\n\n - You've shipped automations or agents that run in production today, not proofs of concept.\n\n - Based in New York or Berlin, or willing to relocate.\n\n\n\n\nPAY TRANSPARENCY\n\nCompensation packages at Augustus include base salary, equity, and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise and geographic location. The annual US base salary range for this role is $180,000-$250,000 + equity.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE OFFER\n\n - Career Growth: You will be given more responsibility and pushed to grow faster than ever before.\n\n - Network: Your peers are brilliant, highly motivated people. These people will be foundational in your future opportunities.\n\n - Real Participation: Employees are shareholders. You will think and act like an owner.\n\n - 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.\n\nAdditional to the global benefits above, we offer localized benefits such as comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance and a 401(k) retirement plan for our US team.\n\n\n\nAugustus 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.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":"$180K – $250K • Offers Equity","scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":"$180K - $250K","compensationTiers":[{"id":"187b085e-d17c-4b22-b05e-d64c977008ad","tierSummary":"$180K – $250K • Offers Equity","title":null,"additionalInformation":null,"components":[{"id":"82a87014-2bb0-4964-8b7e-6d479f6d006d","summary":"Offers Equity","compensationType":"EquityPercentage","interval":"NONE","currencyCode":null,"minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"id":"27c22454-f212-43d6-815e-f95dae9ebce3","summary":"$180K – $250K","compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":180000,"maxValue":250000}]}],"summaryComponents":[{"compensationType":"EquityPercentage","interval":"NONE","currencyCode":null,"minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":180000,"maxValue":250000}]}},{"id":"fb6f26dd-dd60-4625-a746-7d2b9ae47534","title":"Financial Crimes Analyst ","department":"Risk & Compliance","team":"Compliance","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"New York City","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":true,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-10-05T13:30:53.888+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"New York","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"New York City"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Augustus/fb6f26dd-dd60-4625-a746-7d2b9ae47534","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Augustus/fb6f26dd-dd60-4625-a746-7d2b9ae47534/application","descriptionHtml":"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 - there is infinite global demand. But international fintechs and banks are left with two unsatisfying options to choose from: Either build on legacy correspondent banks that are slow and unreliable, or interface with middleware providers that neither move nor hold the dollars directly, but instead rely on underlying legacy banks themselves. At Augustus, we collapse the stack by combining two things: A real, national bank charter (in organization), and Marble, our proprietary core banking system, built around intelligence, made of code.
We are a group of ex-founders, founding employees of unicorns, and people who dropped out of university because they believe this is an industry and career defining opportunity. We are backed with more than $200M from Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Hummingbird, QED, Creandum, and the founders of Nubank, Ramp, Deel, Circle, Fluidstack, Fuse, and Etched.
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.
We are hiring for our founding financial crimes compliance analyst, reporting to the Deputy Bank Secrecy Act Officer (DBSAO). This role is crucial to avoiding any transaction monitoring backlog, as these alerts require immediate review and disposition or escalation. You will be responsible for day to day alert clearing, and over time will move to case investigations & ultimately SAR filings. In addition, you support various crucial risk assessment and compliance workstreams by performing case reviews and trend analysis, preparing metrics and managing reports, as well as other operational tasks.
This is an early-career-role offering exciting development opportunities. If you have gained first work experience in an operational role across consulting or Fintech and are excited about the once in a lifetime opportunity to build a bank from scratch, this role is for you.
Months 1-2: You learn the Transaction Monitoring program and begin processing, reviewing and clearing alerts with supervision.
Months 3-4: You recommend adjustments to transaction monitoring rules based on analysis of false positives.
Months 5-6: You draft updated desktop guidance for case investigation while continuing to execute on alert escalation, SLA adherence and tuning.
We believe that throwing smart people with high agency at big problems produces the best outcomes. We’re building a modern correspondent bank, and we win by having a better team. The people who succeed here share the following traits:
American Dream: You’d rather shoot for gold than settle for mediocrity. You pick the harder goal and stay optimistic when the odds are against you. If it feels easy, we aimed too low.
Live Player: You don’t need permission. You rebuild what’s broken without being asked, challenge how things are done, and move before the perfect moment.
Ever to Excel: You can’t accept good enough and you take your work personally. When it matters, you do what it takes and keep raising the bar for yourself and your team.
Genuine: You play for the company, not your title or turf. Low ego, low drama, no politics. You say it straight, also upwards and always assume good intent.
This role is for you if:
You see an alert pattern of false positives, your first instinct is \"What rule or model needs adjustment?\", not \"We need more analysts.\"
You want to be a part of building the BSA/AML engine, not maintain an existing one. Compliance not only executes the operation, we define the logic which drives the engine, and ultimately own the outcomes of every decision.
You get excited about identifying new typologies and providing the analytical fire power behind stopping them. When you see something that should have a new rule or model tied to it, you draft the requirements quickly and put in motion the deployment of what we need for the near and long term.
You are process driven and focus on the ultimate outcome, while also thinking about the most efficient and effective way to achieve those outcomes.
This is not for you if:
You are looking to be a cog in a larger wheel. Our operation is lean by design, we are intentional and analytical with both resources and technology.
You’re at your best in environments where processes have been in place for years and are not open to disruption.
You crave manual effort over automated processes.
Exceptional English.
Based in New York or willing to relocate.
Experience working on data and trend analysis, as well as AI implementation.
Financial understanding, ideally in an international, high risk environment, is a plus.
Compensation packages at Augustus include base salary, equity, and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise and geographic location. The annual US base salary range for this role is $100,000-$150,000 + equity.
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.
Additional to the global benefits above, we offer localized benefits such as comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance and a 401(k) retirement plan for our US team.
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.
","descriptionPlain":"Few people get to build a bank from scratch. Even fewer get to build one at a moment when banking itself is being reinvented.\n\n\nThe Dollar is the best product in the history of the world - there is infinite global demand. But international fintechs and banks are left with two unsatisfying options to choose from: Either build on legacy correspondent banks that are slow and unreliable, or interface with middleware providers that neither move nor hold the dollars directly, but instead rely on underlying legacy banks themselves. At Augustus, we collapse the stack by combining two things: A real, national bank charter (in organization), and Marble, our proprietary core banking system, built around intelligence, made of code.\n\n\nWe are a group of ex-founders, founding employees of unicorns, and people who dropped out of university because they believe this is an industry and career defining opportunity. We are backed with more than $200M from Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Hummingbird, QED, Creandum, and the founders of Nubank, Ramp, Deel, Circle, Fluidstack, Fuse, and Etched.\n\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nTHE ROLE\n\nWe are hiring for our founding financial crimes compliance analyst, reporting to the Deputy Bank Secrecy Act Officer (DBSAO). This role is crucial to avoiding any transaction monitoring backlog, as these alerts require immediate review and disposition or escalation. You will be responsible for day to day alert clearing, and over time will move to case investigations & ultimately SAR filings. In addition, you support various crucial risk assessment and compliance workstreams by performing case reviews and trend analysis, preparing metrics and managing reports, as well as other operational tasks. \n\nThis is an early-career-role offering exciting development opportunities. If you have gained first work experience in an operational role across consulting or Fintech and are excited about the once in a lifetime opportunity to build a bank from scratch, this role is for you. \n\n \n\n\nYOUR FIRST SIX MONTHS\n\n - Months 1-2: You learn the Transaction Monitoring program and begin processing, reviewing and clearing alerts with supervision.\n\n - Months 3-4: You recommend adjustments to transaction monitoring rules based on analysis of false positives. \n\n - Months 5-6: You draft updated desktop guidance for case investigation while continuing to execute on alert escalation, SLA adherence and tuning.\n\n \n\n\nWHO WILL THRIVE AT AUGUSTUS\n\nWe believe that throwing smart people with high agency at big problems produces the best outcomes. We’re building a modern correspondent bank, and we win by having a better team. The people who succeed here share the following traits:\n\n - American Dream: You’d rather shoot for gold than settle for mediocrity. You pick the harder goal and stay optimistic when the odds are against you. If it feels easy, we aimed too low.\n\n - Live Player: You don’t need permission. You rebuild what’s broken without being asked, challenge how things are done, and move before the perfect moment.\n\n - Ever to Excel: You can’t accept good enough and you take your work personally. When it matters, you do what it takes and keep raising the bar for yourself and your team.\n\n - Genuine: You play for the company, not your title or turf. Low ego, low drama, no politics. You say it straight, also upwards and always assume good intent.\n\n \n\nThis role is for you if:\n\n - You see an alert pattern of false positives, your first instinct is \"What rule or model needs adjustment?\", not \"We need more analysts.\"\n\n - You want to be a part of building the BSA/AML engine, not maintain an existing one. Compliance not only executes the operation, we define the logic which drives the engine, and ultimately own the outcomes of every decision.\n\n - You get excited about identifying new typologies and providing the analytical fire power behind stopping them. When you see something that should have a new rule or model tied to it, you draft the requirements quickly and put in motion the deployment of what we need for the near and long term.\n\n - You are process driven and focus on the ultimate outcome, while also thinking about the most efficient and effective way to achieve those outcomes.\n \n \n\nThis is not for you if:\n\n - You are looking to be a cog in a larger wheel. Our operation is lean by design, we are intentional and analytical with both resources and technology.\n\n - You’re at your best in environments where processes have been in place for years and are not open to disruption.\n\n - You crave manual effort over automated processes.\n\n \n\n\nHARD REQUIREMENTS\n\n - Exceptional English. \n\n - Based in New York or willing to relocate.\n\n - Experience working on data and trend analysis, as well as AI implementation.\n\n - Financial understanding, ideally in an international, high risk environment, is a plus.\n\n \n\n\nPAY TRANSPARENCY\n\nCompensation packages at Augustus include base salary, equity, and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise and geographic location. The annual US base salary range for this role is $100,000-$150,000 + equity.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE OFFER\n\n - Career Growth: You will be given more responsibility and pushed to grow faster than ever before.\n\n - Network: Your peers are brilliant, highly motivated people. These people will be foundational in your future opportunities.\n\n - Real Participation: Employees are shareholders. You will think and act like an owner.\n\n - 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.\n\nAdditional to the global benefits above, we offer localized benefits such as comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance and a 401(k) retirement plan for our US team.\n\n\n\nAugustus is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people from all backgrounds can thrive and where different viewpoints and experiences are valued and respected. 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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 - there is infinite global demand. But international fintechs and banks are left with two unsatisfying options to choose from: Either build on legacy correspondent banks that are slow and unreliable, or interface with middleware providers that neither move nor hold the dollars directly, but instead rely on underlying legacy banks themselves. At Augustus, we collapse the stack by combining two things: A real, national bank charter (in organization), and Marble, our proprietary core banking system, built around intelligence, made of code.
We are a group of ex-founders, founding employees of unicorns, and people who dropped out of university because they believe this is an industry and career defining opportunity. We are backed with more than $200M from Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Hummingbird, QED, Creandum, and the founders of Nubank, Ramp, Deel, Circle, Fluidstack, Fuse, and Etched.
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.
Augustus Bank is growing a best-in-class global bank and requires a strong risk function to support this endeavor. This role will focus on counterparty risks stemming from BaaS relationships, partnerships and future credit offerings. The role focuses on risk assessments of clients, new products and services, as well as continuing to develop risk monitoring and reporting.
You own:
Inventory: maintaining the client inventory and running the quarterly reconciliation against payment and contracting data (you do not own payment/contracting controls yourself — you reconcile against them).
Onboarding: running new client and partner relationships through intake and onboarding.
Initial & Ongoing Due Diligence: executing initial due diligence at onboarding and ongoing due diligence on the recurring schedule for existing client and partner relationships.
SME Reviews: collaborating with subject matter experts across Information Technology, Information Security, BSA/AML & OFAC, Compliance (Consumer & Regulatory), Credit, Finance, and Legal.
Fourth Party Due Diligence: extending due diligence downstream to critical fourth parties, where required.
Client risk management: developing credit, concentration, liquidity and other financial risk metrics and ongoing monitoring and reporting of the same.
Month 1-2: You learn the business and how counterparty and credit risk runs today: what's in (and missing from) the due diligence and risk metrics, how onboarding and due diligence really move through the pipeline, which SME reviews are current versus overdue, what BCDR and exit plan documentation exists for critical clients, and where the issues log breaks down.
Month 2-3: You propose enhanced risk metrics and reporting and support in counterparty risk reviews and risk assessments for new products and services.
Month 3-6: You take ownership of risk metrics and reporting, counterparty risk reviews and risk assessments for new products and services.
We believe that throwing smart people with high agency at big problems produces the best outcomes. We’re building a modern correspondent bank, and we win by having a better team. The people who succeed here share the following traits:
American Dream: You’d rather shoot for gold than settle for mediocrity. You pick the harder goal and stay optimistic when the odds are against you. If it feels easy, we aimed too low.
Live Player: You don’t need permission. You rebuild what’s broken without being asked, challenge how things are done, and move before the perfect moment.
Ever to Excel: You can’t accept good enough and you take your work personally. When it matters, you do what it takes and keep raising the bar for yourself and your team.
Genuine: You play for the company, not your title or turf. Low ego, low drama, no politics. You say it straight, also upwards and always assume good intent.
This role is for you if:
You are driven by intellectual curiosity in finding new ways to think about risk.
You enjoy cross-divisional collaboration to break through silos and achieve more holistic and faster solutions.
You are comfortable working in a supportive, but fast-paced environment where excellence is expected and ownership is rewarded.
This is not for you if:
You want a fully mature program and tooling handed to you with no gaps to close.
You need someone else to define your daily priorities for you.
You're uncomfortable owning a deadline for something you don't directly control, like a client’s response time.
You're looking for a purely strategic role with no operational coordination responsibility.
Detail-heavy, document-intensive work across many concurrent relationships drains you rather than satisfies you.
5+ years of experience in counterparty risk management, credit risk, or a related risk function.
Experience working in fast paced environments with a high level of agency and ownership, ideally blending Fintech and Bank experience.
Comfortable working directly with stakeholders across various functions.
Located in New York area or willing to relocate.
Compensation packages at Augustus include base salary, equity, and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise, and geographic location. The annual US base salary range for this role is $150,000-$250,000 + equity.
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.
Additional to the global benefits above, we offer localized benefits such as comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance and a 401(k) retirement plan for our US team.
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.
","descriptionPlain":"Few people get to build a bank from scratch. Even fewer get to build one at a moment when banking itself is being reinvented.\n\n\nThe Dollar is the best product in the history of the world - there is infinite global demand. But international fintechs and banks are left with two unsatisfying options to choose from: Either build on legacy correspondent banks that are slow and unreliable, or interface with middleware providers that neither move nor hold the dollars directly, but instead rely on underlying legacy banks themselves. At Augustus, we collapse the stack by combining two things: A real, national bank charter (in organization), and Marble, our proprietary core banking system, built around intelligence, made of code.\n\n\nWe are a group of ex-founders, founding employees of unicorns, and people who dropped out of university because they believe this is an industry and career defining opportunity. We are backed with more than $200M from Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Hummingbird, QED, Creandum, and the founders of Nubank, Ramp, Deel, Circle, Fluidstack, Fuse, and Etched.\n\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nTHE ROLE\n\n \n\nAugustus Bank is growing a best-in-class global bank and requires a strong risk function to support this endeavor. This role will focus on counterparty risks stemming from BaaS relationships, partnerships and future credit offerings. The role focuses on risk assessments of clients, new products and services, as well as continuing to develop risk monitoring and reporting.\n\n \n\nYou own:\n\n - Inventory: maintaining the client inventory and running the quarterly reconciliation against payment and contracting data (you do not own payment/contracting controls yourself — you reconcile against them).\n\n - Onboarding: running new client and partner relationships through intake and onboarding.\n\n - Initial & Ongoing Due Diligence: executing initial due diligence at onboarding and ongoing due diligence on the recurring schedule for existing client and partner relationships.\n\n - SME Reviews: collaborating with subject matter experts across Information Technology, Information Security, BSA/AML & OFAC, Compliance (Consumer & Regulatory), Credit, Finance, and Legal.\n\n - Fourth Party Due Diligence: extending due diligence downstream to critical fourth parties, where required.\n\n - Client risk management: developing credit, concentration, liquidity and other financial risk metrics and ongoing monitoring and reporting of the same.\n\n \n\n\nYOUR FIRST SIX MONTHS\n\n \n\n - Month 1-2: You learn the business and how counterparty and credit risk runs today: what's in (and missing from) the due diligence and risk metrics, how onboarding and due diligence really move through the pipeline, which SME reviews are current versus overdue, what BCDR and exit plan documentation exists for critical clients, and where the issues log breaks down.\n\n - Month 2-3: You propose enhanced risk metrics and reporting and support in counterparty risk reviews and risk assessments for new products and services.\n\n - Month 3-6: You take ownership of risk metrics and reporting, counterparty risk reviews and risk assessments for new products and services.\n\n \n\n\nWHO WILL THRIVE AT AUGUSTUS\n\nWe believe that throwing smart people with high agency at big problems produces the best outcomes. We’re building a modern correspondent bank, and we win by having a better team. The people who succeed here share the following traits:\n\n - American Dream: You’d rather shoot for gold than settle for mediocrity. You pick the harder goal and stay optimistic when the odds are against you. If it feels easy, we aimed too low.\n\n - Live Player: You don’t need permission. You rebuild what’s broken without being asked, challenge how things are done, and move before the perfect moment.\n\n - Ever to Excel: You can’t accept good enough and you take your work personally. When it matters, you do what it takes and keep raising the bar for yourself and your team.\n\n - Genuine: You play for the company, not your title or turf. Low ego, low drama, no politics. You say it straight, also upwards and always assume good intent.\n\n \n\nThis role is for you if:\n\n - You are driven by intellectual curiosity in finding new ways to think about risk.\n\n - You enjoy cross-divisional collaboration to break through silos and achieve more holistic and faster solutions.\n\n - You are comfortable working in a supportive, but fast-paced environment where excellence is expected and ownership is rewarded.\n \n \n\nThis is not for you if:\n\n - You want a fully mature program and tooling handed to you with no gaps to close.\n\n - You need someone else to define your daily priorities for you.\n\n - You're uncomfortable owning a deadline for something you don't directly control, like a client’s response time.\n\n - You're looking for a purely strategic role with no operational coordination responsibility.\n\n - Detail-heavy, document-intensive work across many concurrent relationships drains you rather than satisfies you.\n\n \n\n\nHARD REQUIREMENTS\n\n \n\n - 5+ years of experience in counterparty risk management, credit risk, or a related risk function.\n\n - Experience working in fast paced environments with a high level of agency and ownership, ideally blending Fintech and Bank experience.\n\n - Comfortable working directly with stakeholders across various functions.\n\n - Located in New York area or willing to relocate.\n\n \n\n\nPAY TRANSPARENCY\n\nCompensation packages at Augustus include base salary, equity, and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise, and geographic location. The annual US base salary range for this role is $150,000-$250,000 + equity.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE OFFER\n\n - Career Growth: You will be given more responsibility and pushed to grow faster than ever before.\n\n - Network: Your peers are brilliant, highly motivated people. These people will be foundational in your future opportunities.\n\n - Real Participation: Employees are shareholders. You will think and act like an owner.\n\n - 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.\n\nAdditional to the global benefits above, we offer localized benefits such as comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance and a 401(k) retirement plan for our US team.\n\n\n\nAugustus is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people from all backgrounds can thrive and where different viewpoints and experiences are valued and respected. 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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 - there is infinite global demand. But international fintechs and banks are left with two unsatisfying options to choose from: Either build on legacy correspondent banks that are slow and unreliable, or interface with middleware providers that neither move nor hold the dollars directly, but instead rely on underlying legacy banks themselves. At Augustus, we collapse the stack by combining two things: A real, national bank charter (in organization), and Marble, our proprietary core banking system, built around intelligence, made of code.
We are a group of ex-founders, founding employees of unicorns, and people who dropped out of university because they believe this is an industry and career defining opportunity. We are backed with more than $200M from Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Hummingbird, QED, Creandum, and the founders of Nubank, Ramp, Deel, Circle, Fluidstack, Fuse, and Etched.
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.
You own the mechanics that make the TPRM program run day to day. You are the person who keeps the vendor and partner inventory reconciled, moves relationships through onboarding and due diligence, coordinates SME reviews across every function that touches third-party risk, tracks BCDR posture on every critical vendor, and keeps the TPRM issues pipeline current.
You own:
Inventory: maintaining the third-party inventory and running the quarterly reconciliation against payment and contracting data (you do not own payment/contracting controls yourself — you reconcile against them).
Onboarding: running new vendor and partner relationships through intake and onboarding.
Initial & Ongoing Due Diligence: executing initial due diligence at onboarding and ongoing due diligence on the recurring schedule for existing relationships.
Audit Oversight: tracking and coordinating third-party audit requirements and following up on findings.
SME Reviews: coordinating and tracking risk-based reviews with subject matter experts across Information Technology, Information Security, BSA/AML & OFAC, Compliance (Consumer & Regulatory), Credit, Finance, and Legal.
BCDR: collecting and tracking RTO & RPO assessments for critical vendors, and maintaining exit plans.
Fourth Party Due Diligence: extending due diligence downstream to critical fourth parties where required.
Vendor DDQ & Partner DDQ: administering and tracking due diligence questionnaires for both vendor and partner relationships.
SLA: tracking service level agreements and monitoring performance against them.
Issues: maintaining the TPRM issues log from identification through remediation and closure.
Reverse Due Diligence: supporting due diligence requests that come from partners and counterparties assessing Augustus.
Weeks 1-4: You learn how third-party risk actually runs today — what's in (and missing from) the inventory, how onboarding and due diligence really move through the pipeline, which SME reviews are current versus overdue, what BCDR and exit plan documentation exists for critical vendors, and where the issues log breaks down.
Weeks 5-8: You take over the operational cadence. Onboarding and due diligence are moving on schedule. The inventory reconciliation is running quarterly without prompting. SME reviews are tracked and chased across all seven functions. DDQs are going out and coming back on time.
Weeks 9-12: You start closing gaps — cleaning up the BCDR and exit plan documentation for critical vendors, tightening fourth-party due diligence coverage, and getting the TPRM issues log to reflect true status. Leadership trusts the inventory and the pipeline status without double-checking them.
We believe that throwing smart people with high agency at big problems produces the best outcomes. We’re building a modern correspondent bank, and we win by having a better team. The people who succeed here share the following traits:
American Dream: You’d rather shoot for gold than settle for mediocrity. You pick the harder goal and stay optimistic when the odds are against you. If it feels easy, we aimed too low.
Live Player: You don’t need permission. You rebuild what’s broken without being asked, challenge how things are done, and move before the perfect moment.
Ever to Excel: You can’t accept good enough and you take your work personally. When it matters, you do what it takes and keep raising the bar for yourself and your team.
Genuine: You play for the company, not your title or turf. Low ego, low drama, no politics. You say it straight, also upwards and always assume good intent.
This role is for you if:
You get satisfaction from chasing down documentation, closing out a due diligence file, and keeping an inventory clean and reconciled.
You want to learn TPRM from the inside by running the pipeline, not by reviewing it after the fact.
You're comfortable coordinating with SMEs across seven different functions and holding them to a review deadline without formal authority over them.
You'd rather fix the tracker or tighten the process than send another follow-up email chasing a DDQ response.
You want a role where the scope is real and will grow as you prove you can carry it.
This is not for you if:
You want a fully mature program and tooling handed to you with no gaps to close.
You need someone else to define your daily priorities for you.
You're uncomfortable owning a deadline for something you don't directly control, like a vendor's response time.
You're looking for a purely strategic role with no operational coordination responsibility.
Detail-heavy, document-intensive work across many concurrent relationships drains you rather than satisfies you.
Several years of experience in third-party/vendor risk management, procurement risk, compliance, or a related operational/governance function.
Comfortable managing due diligence and review cycles across multiple vendors, partners, and internal SME functions at once.
Strong organizational and documentation skills — inventories, DDQs, and trackers stay accurate under you, not just after you build them.
Working knowledge of, or strong ability to quickly learn, third-party risk concepts including due diligence tiering, BCDR/RTO/RPO, SLA monitoring, and issues management.
Comfortable working with Excel/spreadsheets and reporting tools; experience with GRC or TPRM platforms is a plus but not required.
In New York City, or ready to relocate.
Compensation packages at Augustus include base salary, equity, and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise, and geographic location. The annual US base salary range for this role is $150,000-$250,000 + equity.
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.
Additional to the global benefits above, we offer localized benefits such as comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance and a 401(k) retirement plan for our US team.
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.
","descriptionPlain":"Few people get to build a bank from scratch. Even fewer get to build one at a moment when banking itself is being reinvented.\n\n\nThe Dollar is the best product in the history of the world - there is infinite global demand. But international fintechs and banks are left with two unsatisfying options to choose from: Either build on legacy correspondent banks that are slow and unreliable, or interface with middleware providers that neither move nor hold the dollars directly, but instead rely on underlying legacy banks themselves. At Augustus, we collapse the stack by combining two things: A real, national bank charter (in organization), and Marble, our proprietary core banking system, built around intelligence, made of code.\n\n\nWe are a group of ex-founders, founding employees of unicorns, and people who dropped out of university because they believe this is an industry and career defining opportunity. We are backed with more than $200M from Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Hummingbird, QED, Creandum, and the founders of Nubank, Ramp, Deel, Circle, Fluidstack, Fuse, and Etched.\n\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nTHE ROLE\n\n\n\nYou own the mechanics that make the TPRM program run day to day. You are the person who keeps the vendor and partner inventory reconciled, moves relationships through onboarding and due diligence, coordinates SME reviews across every function that touches third-party risk, tracks BCDR posture on every critical vendor, and keeps the TPRM issues pipeline current.\n\n\n\nYou own:\n\n - Inventory: maintaining the third-party inventory and running the quarterly reconciliation against payment and contracting data (you do not own payment/contracting controls yourself — you reconcile against them).\n\n - Onboarding: running new vendor and partner relationships through intake and onboarding.\n\n - Initial & Ongoing Due Diligence: executing initial due diligence at onboarding and ongoing due diligence on the recurring schedule for existing relationships.\n\n - Audit Oversight: tracking and coordinating third-party audit requirements and following up on findings.\n\n - SME Reviews: coordinating and tracking risk-based reviews with subject matter experts across Information Technology, Information Security, BSA/AML & OFAC, Compliance (Consumer & Regulatory), Credit, Finance, and Legal.\n\n - BCDR: collecting and tracking RTO & RPO assessments for critical vendors, and maintaining exit plans.\n\n - Fourth Party Due Diligence: extending due diligence downstream to critical fourth parties where required.\n\n - Vendor DDQ & Partner DDQ: administering and tracking due diligence questionnaires for both vendor and partner relationships.\n\n - SLA: tracking service level agreements and monitoring performance against them.\n\n - Issues: maintaining the TPRM issues log from identification through remediation and closure.\n\n - Reverse Due Diligence: supporting due diligence requests that come from partners and counterparties assessing Augustus.\n\n \n\n\nYOUR FIRST 90 DAYS\n\n\n\n - Weeks 1-4: You learn how third-party risk actually runs today — what's in (and missing from) the inventory, how onboarding and due diligence really move through the pipeline, which SME reviews are current versus overdue, what BCDR and exit plan documentation exists for critical vendors, and where the issues log breaks down.\n \n Weeks 5-8: You take over the operational cadence. Onboarding and due diligence are moving on schedule. The inventory reconciliation is running quarterly without prompting. SME reviews are tracked and chased across all seven functions. DDQs are going out and coming back on time.\n \n Weeks 9-12: You start closing gaps — cleaning up the BCDR and exit plan documentation for critical vendors, tightening fourth-party due diligence coverage, and getting the TPRM issues log to reflect true status. Leadership trusts the inventory and the pipeline status without double-checking them.\n\n \n\n\nWHO WILL THRIVE AT AUGUSTUS\n\nWe believe that throwing smart people with high agency at big problems produces the best outcomes. We’re building a modern correspondent bank, and we win by having a better team. The people who succeed here share the following traits:\n\n - American Dream: You’d rather shoot for gold than settle for mediocrity. You pick the harder goal and stay optimistic when the odds are against you. If it feels easy, we aimed too low.\n\n - Live Player: You don’t need permission. You rebuild what’s broken without being asked, challenge how things are done, and move before the perfect moment.\n\n - Ever to Excel: You can’t accept good enough and you take your work personally. When it matters, you do what it takes and keep raising the bar for yourself and your team.\n\n - Genuine: You play for the company, not your title or turf. Low ego, low drama, no politics. You say it straight, also upwards and always assume good intent.\n\n \n\nThis role is for you if:\n\n - You get satisfaction from chasing down documentation, closing out a due diligence file, and keeping an inventory clean and reconciled.\n\n - You want to learn TPRM from the inside by running the pipeline, not by reviewing it after the fact.\n\n - You're comfortable coordinating with SMEs across seven different functions and holding them to a review deadline without formal authority over them.\n\n - You'd rather fix the tracker or tighten the process than send another follow-up email chasing a DDQ response.\n\n - You want a role where the scope is real and will grow as you prove you can carry it.\n \n \n\nThis is not for you if:\n\n - You want a fully mature program and tooling handed to you with no gaps to close.\n\n - You need someone else to define your daily priorities for you.\n\n - You're uncomfortable owning a deadline for something you don't directly control, like a vendor's response time.\n\n - You're looking for a purely strategic role with no operational coordination responsibility.\n\n - Detail-heavy, document-intensive work across many concurrent relationships drains you rather than satisfies you.\n\n \n\n\nHARD REQUIREMENTS\n\n\n\n - Several years of experience in third-party/vendor risk management, procurement risk, compliance, or a related operational/governance function.\n\n - Comfortable managing due diligence and review cycles across multiple vendors, partners, and internal SME functions at once.\n\n - Strong organizational and documentation skills — inventories, DDQs, and trackers stay accurate under you, not just after you build them.\n\n - Working knowledge of, or strong ability to quickly learn, third-party risk concepts including due diligence tiering, BCDR/RTO/RPO, SLA monitoring, and issues management.\n\n - Comfortable working with Excel/spreadsheets and reporting tools; experience with GRC or TPRM platforms is a plus but not required.\n\n - In New York City, or ready to relocate.\n\n \n\n\nPAY TRANSPARENCY\n\nCompensation packages at Augustus include base salary, equity, and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise, and geographic location. The annual US base salary range for this role is $150,000-$250,000 + equity.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE OFFER\n\n - Career Growth: You will be given more responsibility and pushed to grow faster than ever before.\n\n - Network: Your peers are brilliant, highly motivated people. These people will be foundational in your future opportunities.\n\n - Real Participation: Employees are shareholders. You will think and act like an owner.\n\n - 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.\n\nAdditional to the global benefits above, we offer localized benefits such as comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance and a 401(k) retirement plan for our US team.\n\n\n\nAugustus is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people from all backgrounds can thrive and where different viewpoints and experiences are valued and respected. 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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 - there is infinite global demand. But international fintechs and banks are left with two unsatisfying options to choose from: Either build on legacy correspondent banks that are slow and unreliable, or interface with middleware providers that neither move nor hold the dollars directly, but instead rely on underlying legacy banks themselves. At Augustus, we collapse the stack by combining two things: A real, national bank charter (in organization), and Marble, our proprietary core banking system, built around intelligence, made of code.
We are a group of ex-founders, founding employees of unicorns, and people who dropped out of university because they believe this is an industry and career defining opportunity. We are backed with more than $200M from Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Hummingbird, QED, Creandum, and the founders of Nubank, Ramp, Deel, Circle, Fluidstack, Fuse, and Etched.
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.
You will own security engineering end-to-end across application, infrastructure, and incident response: partnering with product and platform teams during design, writing and shipping security automation in production, and leading high-quality response when something breaks. Day to day, you will help define security in a greenfield modern bank, moving beyond threat modeling, harden cloud and CI/CD paths, build detection and response workflows, and drive remediation to closure with clear risk tradeoffs. This role reports to the CISO. What matters most is measurable risk reduction that keeps product velocity high.
Understand the foundations and increase your ownership rapidly.
Months 1-2: Enforce an SSDLC that codifies existing security goals across EU-live payment/ledger services and US launch-critical services into required design, build, and release checkpoints (ownership, control evidence, and exception handling), with 100% of net-new Tier-1 changes following the workflow.
Months 3-4: Stand up an AI-native product-security review pipeline that auto-triages code/dependency/IaC findings by service criticality, proposes fixes in pull requests, and routes owner-tagged remediation tasks and reduces non-actionable security alerts.
Months 5-6: Expand baseline coverage to >=85% of Tier-1 services for workload identity hardening, secret management standards, runtime audit logging, and high-severity dependency monitoring; start monthly control-evidence reporting to Security & Compliance.
We believe that throwing smart people with high agency at big problems produces the best outcomes. We’re building a modern correspondent bank, and we win by having a better team. The people who succeed here share the following traits:
American Dream: You’d rather shoot for gold than settle for mediocrity. You pick the harder goal and stay optimistic when the odds are against you. If it feels easy, we aimed too low.
Live Player: You don’t need permission. You rebuild what’s broken without being asked, challenge how things are done, and move before the perfect moment.
Ever to Excel: You can’t accept good enough and you take your work personally. When it matters, you do what it takes and keep raising the bar for yourself and your team.
Genuine: You play for the company, not your title or turf. Low ego, low drama, no politics. You say it straight, also upwards and always assume good intent.
This role is for you if:
You can point to security automation you personally built that replaced recurring manual review work.
You have strong product security fundamentals and can improve secure-by-default patterns in fast-moving engineering teams.
You have led end-to-end rollout of security controls in production, from design and implementation through adoption and evidence.
You regularly influence architecture decisions before launch through fast, lightweight risk reviews and pragmatic controls.
You are comfortable writing production-grade code or infrastructure changes, not only policy or tickets.
You use AI tooling to accelerate security reviews and remediation planning without lowering quality or signal.
You push ambiguous work forward without waiting for a complete playbook, and you bring stakeholders with you.
This is not for you if:
You prefer advisory-only security roles and do not want direct implementation ownership.
You need tightly scoped tickets to make progress and are uncomfortable defining the plan yourself.
You avoid ownership of production systems and control implementation work.
You optimize for stability over change and are not excited by early-stage ambiguity.
Extensive experience in hands-on security engineering, product security, cloud security, or detection/response engineering in production environments
Demonstrated expertise securing cloud-based systems (IAM, networking, logging, key management, workload isolation) and CI/CD pipelines
Proven experience building at least one security automation or detection capability that is actively used in production
Experience in fintech, payments, banking, or another regulated environment with audit and control evidence requirements
Experience with modern security tooling, especially SIEM/SOAR and cloud security platforms
Located in (or willing to relocate to) Berlin and able to work in-office 3 days/week
Compensation packages at Augustus include base salary, equity, and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise and geographic location. The annual base salary range for this role is €100,000-€150,000 + equity.
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.
Additional to the global benefits above, we offer localized benefits such as comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance and a 401(k) retirement plan for our US team.
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.
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We are backed with more than $200M from Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Hummingbird, QED, Creandum, and the founders of Nubank, Ramp, Deel, Circle, Fluidstack, Fuse, and Etched.\n\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nTHE ROLE\n\nYou will own security engineering end-to-end across application, infrastructure, and incident response: partnering with product and platform teams during design, writing and shipping security automation in production, and leading high-quality response when something breaks. Day to day, you will help define security in a greenfield modern bank, moving beyond threat modeling, harden cloud and CI/CD paths, build detection and response workflows, and drive remediation to closure with clear risk tradeoffs. This role reports to the CISO. What matters most is measurable risk reduction that keeps product velocity high.\n\n \n\n\nYOUR FIRST SIX MONTHS\n\nUnderstand the foundations and increase your ownership rapidly.\n\n - Months 1-2: Enforce an SSDLC that codifies existing security goals across EU-live payment/ledger services and US launch-critical services into required design, build, and release checkpoints (ownership, control evidence, and exception handling), with 100% of net-new Tier-1 changes following the workflow.\n\n - Months 3-4: Stand up an AI-native product-security review pipeline that auto-triages code/dependency/IaC findings by service criticality, proposes fixes in pull requests, and routes owner-tagged remediation tasks and reduces non-actionable security alerts.\n\n - Months 5-6: Expand baseline coverage to >=85% of Tier-1 services for workload identity hardening, secret management standards, runtime audit logging, and high-severity dependency monitoring; start monthly control-evidence reporting to Security & Compliance.\n\n\n\n\n\nWHO WILL THRIVE AT AUGUSTUS\n\nWe believe that throwing smart people with high agency at big problems produces the best outcomes. We’re building a modern correspondent bank, and we win by having a better team. The people who succeed here share the following traits:\n\n - American Dream: You’d rather shoot for gold than settle for mediocrity. You pick the harder goal and stay optimistic when the odds are against you. If it feels easy, we aimed too low.\n\n - Live Player: You don’t need permission. You rebuild what’s broken without being asked, challenge how things are done, and move before the perfect moment.\n\n - Ever to Excel: You can’t accept good enough and you take your work personally. When it matters, you do what it takes and keep raising the bar for yourself and your team.\n\n - Genuine: You play for the company, not your title or turf. Low ego, low drama, no politics. You say it straight, also upwards and always assume good intent.\n\n \n\nThis role is for you if:\n\n - You can point to security automation you personally built that replaced recurring manual review work.\n\n - You have strong product security fundamentals and can improve secure-by-default patterns in fast-moving engineering teams.\n\n - You have led end-to-end rollout of security controls in production, from design and implementation through adoption and evidence.\n\n - You regularly influence architecture decisions before launch through fast, lightweight risk reviews and pragmatic controls.\n\n - You are comfortable writing production-grade code or infrastructure changes, not only policy or tickets.\n\n - You use AI tooling to accelerate security reviews and remediation planning without lowering quality or signal.\n\n - You push ambiguous work forward without waiting for a complete playbook, and you bring stakeholders with you.\n\nThis is not for you if:\n\n - You prefer advisory-only security roles and do not want direct implementation ownership.\n\n - You need tightly scoped tickets to make progress and are uncomfortable defining the plan yourself.\n\n - You avoid ownership of production systems and control implementation work.\n\n - You optimize for stability over change and are not excited by early-stage ambiguity.\n\n \n\n\nHARD REQUIREMENTS\n\n - Extensive experience in hands-on security engineering, product security, cloud security, or detection/response engineering in production environments\n\n - Demonstrated expertise securing cloud-based systems (IAM, networking, logging, key management, workload isolation) and CI/CD pipelines\n\n - Proven experience building at least one security automation or detection capability that is actively used in production\n\n - Experience in fintech, payments, banking, or another regulated environment with audit and control evidence requirements\n\n - Experience with modern security tooling, especially SIEM/SOAR and cloud security platforms\n\n - Located in (or willing to relocate to) Berlin and able to work in-office 3 days/week\n\n \n\n\nPAY TRANSPARENCY\n\nCompensation packages at Augustus include base salary, equity, and benefits. 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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 - there is infinite global demand. But international fintechs and banks are left with two unsatisfying options to choose from: Either build on legacy correspondent banks that are slow and unreliable, or interface with middleware providers that neither move nor hold the dollars directly, but instead rely on underlying legacy banks themselves. At Augustus, we collapse the stack by combining two things: A real, national bank charter (in organization), and Marble, our proprietary core banking system, built around intelligence, made of code.
We are a group of ex-founders, founding employees of unicorns, and people who dropped out of university because they believe this is an industry and career defining opportunity. We are backed with more than $200M from Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Hummingbird, QED, Creandum, and the founders of Nubank, Ramp, Deel, Circle, Fluidstack, Fuse, and Etched.
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.
As Commercial & Product Counsel at Augustus, you own the legal work behind everything we build, sell and market in the US. You’re the lawyer the business calls first.
You join new products from day one: you structure them, spot risk early and get them to market without legal becoming the bottleneck. You lead commercial negotiations with our enterprise clients and own contracting end to end, from templates and playbooks to signature. You review and shape our marketing so it ships fast and stays compliant.
You report to Ro, our Global Chief Legal and Risk Officer, and work closely with Product, Sales, Marketing and Compliance. The team is small, so you have full ownership and make the calls yourself.
Advise on new products from scoping to launch: structure, terms, disclosures and risk.
Lead negotiations with enterprise clients, partners and vendors.
Own contracting end to end: templates, playbooks, fallback positions and approval rules.
Review marketing, website and sales materials so they ship fast and stay compliant.
Work with Compliance on how regulatory requirements translate into product and contract terms.
Build the systems once, so Sales can close standard deals without waiting on legal.
We believe that throwing smart people with high agency at big problems produces the best outcomes. We’re building a modern correspondent bank, and we win by having a better team. The people who succeed here share the following traits:
American Dream: You’d rather shoot for gold than settle for mediocrity. You pick the harder goal and stay optimistic when the odds are against you. If it feels easy, we aimed too low.
Live Player: You don’t need permission. You rebuild what’s broken without being asked, challenge how things are done, and move before the perfect moment.
Ever to Excel: You can’t accept good enough and you take your work personally. When it matters, you do what it takes and keep raising the bar for yourself and your team.
Genuine: You play for the company, not your title or turf. Low ego, low drama, no politics. You say it straight, also upwards and always assume good intent.
This Role Is For You If:
When a deal is stuck on legal, you find the structure that gets it done.
You’d rather build the system once than review every contract.
You make the call yourself, with no partner to check with.
You use AI to do work that used to take a team of associates.
You want to see how a bank is built from the inside.
This Is Not For You If:
You measure your value by risks flagged, not deals closed.
You need associates or a precedent bank before you can start.
You want a narrow practice area. This role covers whatever the business needs next.
You hand disputes to outside counsel and stop thinking about them.
Must haves:
J.D. and admission to a US state bar (New York preferred).
3+ years of legal experience, split between a leading law firm (technology transactions, commercial or financial services) and at least 1 years in-house at a startup.
Track record of negotiating complex commercial agreements and advising product teams directly.
Based in New York or willing to relocate.
Strong preference:
In-house experience at a fintech or financial institution.
Exposure to payments, banking or financial services regulation.
Compensation packages at Augustus include base salary, equity and benefits. New hire offers are based on a candidate’s experience, expertise and geographic location. The annual US base salary range for this role is 180,000-250,000.
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.
Additional to the global benefits above, we offer localized benefits such as comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance and a 401(k) retirement plan for our US team.
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.
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We are backed with more than $200M from Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Hummingbird, QED, Creandum, and the founders of Nubank, Ramp, Deel, Circle, Fluidstack, Fuse, and Etched.\n\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nTHE ROLE\n\nAs Commercial & Product Counsel at Augustus, you own the legal work behind everything we build, sell and market in the US. You’re the lawyer the business calls first.\n\nYou join new products from day one: you structure them, spot risk early and get them to market without legal becoming the bottleneck. You lead commercial negotiations with our enterprise clients and own contracting end to end, from templates and playbooks to signature. You review and shape our marketing so it ships fast and stays compliant.\n\nYou report to Ro, our Global Chief Legal and Risk Officer, and work closely with Product, Sales, Marketing and Compliance. The team is small, so you have full ownership and make the calls yourself.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL DO\n\n - Advise on new products from scoping to launch: structure, terms, disclosures and risk.\n\n - Lead negotiations with enterprise clients, partners and vendors.\n\n - Own contracting end to end: templates, playbooks, fallback positions and approval rules.\n\n - Review marketing, website and sales materials so they ship fast and stay compliant.\n\n - Work with Compliance on how regulatory requirements translate into product and contract terms.\n\n - Build the systems once, so Sales can close standard deals without waiting on legal.\n\n\n\n\nWHO WILL THRIVE AT AUGUSTUS\n\nWe believe that throwing smart people with high agency at big problems produces the best outcomes. We’re building a modern correspondent bank, and we win by having a better team. The people who succeed here share the following traits:\n\n - American Dream: You’d rather shoot for gold than settle for mediocrity. You pick the harder goal and stay optimistic when the odds are against you. If it feels easy, we aimed too low.\n\n - Live Player: You don’t need permission. You rebuild what’s broken without being asked, challenge how things are done, and move before the perfect moment.\n\n - Ever to Excel: You can’t accept good enough and you take your work personally. When it matters, you do what it takes and keep raising the bar for yourself and your team.\n\n - Genuine: You play for the company, not your title or turf. Low ego, low drama, no politics. You say it straight, also upwards and always assume good intent.\n \n \n\nThis Role Is For You If:\n\n - When a deal is stuck on legal, you find the structure that gets it done.\n\n - You’d rather build the system once than review every contract.\n\n - You make the call yourself, with no partner to check with.\n\n - You use AI to do work that used to take a team of associates.\n\n - You want to see how a bank is built from the inside.\n\nThis Is Not For You If:\n\n - You measure your value by risks flagged, not deals closed.\n\n - You need associates or a precedent bank before you can start.\n\n - You want a narrow practice area. This role covers whatever the business needs next.\n\n - You hand disputes to outside counsel and stop thinking about them.\n\n\n\n\nHARD REQUIREMENTS\n\nMust haves:\n\n - J.D. and admission to a US state bar (New York preferred).\n\n - 3+ years of legal experience, split between a leading law firm (technology transactions, commercial or financial services) and at least 1 years in-house at a startup.\n\n - Track record of negotiating complex commercial agreements and advising product teams directly.\n\n - Based in New York or willing to relocate.\n\nStrong preference:\n\n - In-house experience at a fintech or financial institution.\n\n - Exposure to payments, banking or financial services regulation.\n\n\n\n\nPAY TRANSPARENCY\n\nCompensation packages at Augustus include base salary, equity and benefits. New hire offers are based on a candidate’s experience, expertise and geographic location. The annual US base salary range for this role is 180,000-250,000.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE OFFER\n\n - Career Growth: You will be given more responsibility and pushed to grow faster than ever before.\n\n - Network: Your peers are brilliant, highly motivated people. These people will be foundational in your future opportunities.\n\n - Real Participation: Employees are shareholders. 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Even fewer get to build one at a moment when banking itself is being reinvented.
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We are a group of ex-founders, founding employees of unicorns, and people who dropped out of university because they believe this is an industry and career defining opportunity. We are backed with more than $200M from Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Hummingbird, QED, Creandum, and the founders of Nubank, Ramp, Deel, Circle, Fluidstack, Fuse, and Etched.
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.
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You report to Ro, our Global Chief Legal and Risk Officer, and work closely with Product, Sales, Finance, People and the founders.
Advise on product development and sales practices.
Run M&A, strategic investments and partnerships from diligence to closing.
Manage board and shareholder meetings, resolutions and consents, bylaws and charter, corporate records.
Lead financings end to end, from term sheet to closing.
We believe that throwing smart people with high agency at big problems produces the best outcomes. We’re building a modern correspondent bank, and we win by having a better team. The people who succeed here share the following traits:
American Dream: You’d rather shoot for gold than settle for mediocrity. You pick the harder goal and stay optimistic when the odds are against you. If it feels easy, we aimed too low.
Live Player: You don’t need permission. You rebuild what’s broken without being asked, challenge how things are done, and move before the perfect moment.
Ever to Excel: You can’t accept good enough and you take your work personally. When it matters, you do what it takes and keep raising the bar for yourself and your team.
Genuine: You play for the company, not your title or turf. Low ego, low drama, no politics. You say it straight, also upwards and always assume good intent.
This Role Is For You If:
You’ve closed financings and deals and want to own the process, not just one workstream.
You’re comfortable making the call yourself, with no partner to check with.
You want to see how a bank is built from the inside.
This Is Not For You If:
You want to stay a pure deal lawyer and never touch the housekeeping.
You need a team of associates or a precedent bank before you can start.
You want a narrow practice. This role covers whatever the company needs next on the corporate side.
Must Haves:
J.D. and admission to a US state bar (New York preferred).
5+ years of corporate legal experience, split between a leading law firm (emerging companies/VC, M&A or capital markets) and at least 2 years in-house at a startup.
Hands-on experience with venture financings, equity plans and corporate governance.
Based in New York or willing to relocate.
Strong preference:
In-house experience at a fintech
Compensation packages at Augustus include base salary, equity, and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise and geographic location. The annual US base salary range for this role is USD 200,000 - USD 300,000.
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.
Additional to the global benefits above, we offer localized benefits such as comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance and a 401(k) retirement plan for our US team.
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.
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We are backed with more than $200M from Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Hummingbird, QED, Creandum, and the founders of Nubank, Ramp, Deel, Circle, Fluidstack, Fuse, and Etched.\n\n\nWe are regulated in Europe and live with Euro and Stablecoin clearing today. 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The people who succeed here share the following traits:\n\n - American Dream: You’d rather shoot for gold than settle for mediocrity. You pick the harder goal and stay optimistic when the odds are against you. If it feels easy, we aimed too low.\n\n - Live Player: You don’t need permission. You rebuild what’s broken without being asked, challenge how things are done, and move before the perfect moment.\n\n - Ever to Excel: You can’t accept good enough and you take your work personally. When it matters, you do what it takes and keep raising the bar for yourself and your team.\n\n - Genuine: You play for the company, not your title or turf. Low ego, low drama, no politics. You say it straight, also upwards and always assume good intent.\n\n\n\nThis Role Is For You If:\n\n - You’ve closed financings and deals and want to own the process, not just one workstream.\n\n - You’re comfortable making the call yourself, with no partner to check with.\n\n - You want to see how a bank is built from the inside.\n\nThis Is Not For You If:\n\n - You want to stay a pure deal lawyer and never touch the housekeeping.\n\n - You need a team of associates or a precedent bank before you can start.\n\n - You want a narrow practice. This role covers whatever the company needs next on the corporate side.\n\n\n\n\nHARD REQUIREMENTS\n\nMust Haves:\n\n - J.D. and admission to a US state bar (New York preferred).\n\n - 5+ years of corporate legal experience, split between a leading law firm (emerging companies/VC, M&A or capital markets) and at least 2 years in-house at a startup.\n\n - Hands-on experience with venture financings, equity plans and corporate governance.\n\n - Based in New York or willing to relocate.\n\nStrong preference:\n\n - In-house experience at a fintech\n\n\n\n\nPAY TRANSPARENCY\n\nCompensation packages at Augustus include base salary, equity, and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise and geographic location. The annual US base salary range for this role is USD 200,000 - USD 300,000.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE OFFER\n\n - Career Growth: You will be given more responsibility and pushed to grow faster than ever before.\n\n - Network: Your peers are brilliant, highly motivated people. These people will be foundational in your future opportunities.\n\n - Real Participation: Employees are shareholders. You will think and act like an owner.\n\n - 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.\n\nAdditional to the global benefits above, we offer localized benefits such as comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance and a 401(k) retirement plan for our US team.\n\n\n\nAugustus is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people from all backgrounds can thrive and where different viewpoints and experiences are valued and respected. 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Even fewer get to build one at a moment when banking itself is being reinvented.
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We are a group of ex-founders, founding employees of unicorns, and people who dropped out of university because they believe this is an industry and career defining opportunity. We are backed with more than $200M from Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Hummingbird, QED, Creandum, and the founders of Nubank, Ramp, Deel, Circle, Fluidstack, Fuse, and Etched.
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.
As CDD Analyst at Augustus, you own customer due diligence end to end, from onboarding through periodic and event-driven reviews. You run CIP/CDD on individuals and legal entities, assign customer risk ratings, and run EDD on high-risk customers, complex ownership structures and FBO relationships. You prepare those cases for the High-Risk Customer Review Committee. You report directly to the Deputy BSA Officer.
We’re building an AI native bank, which is designed to run mostly autonomously. Legacy banks scale KYC with people. We scale it with agents, supporting human decisions. You improve the prompts of our review agents, and you work with Engineering and Product to automate onboarding within our regulatory bouunds. Your judgment sets the standard the agents follow. The goal is to make routine cases disappear so your time goes to the ones that matter.
Months 1-2: Work the queue yourself. Onboard individuals and legal entities end to end: CIP, document review, beneficial ownership certification and risk rating. Learn the Bank’s CRR methodology well enough to see where it’s unclear and where the review agents get it wrong.
Months 3-4: Own EDD on high-risk customers, complex ownership structures and FBO relationships. Your cases go to the High-Risk Customer Review Committee ready for a decision, with no rework needed. You’re rewriting agent prompts based on what you see in the queue.
Months 5-6: Agents handle standard onboarding and periodic reviews. You take the hard cases, event-driven reviews and exceptions. You work with Engineering and Product on the next onboarding flows to automate, within limits set by Compliance.
We believe that throwing smart people with high agency at big problems produces the best outcomes. We’re building a modern correspondent bank, and we win by having a better team. The people who succeed here share the following traits:
American Dream: You’d rather shoot for gold than settle for mediocrity. You pick the harder goal and stay optimistic when the odds are against you. If it feels easy, we aimed too low.
Live Player: You don’t need permission. You rebuild what’s broken without being asked, challenge how things are done, and move before the perfect moment.
Ever to Excel: You can’t accept good enough and you take your work personally. When it matters, you do what it takes and keep raising the bar for yourself and your team.
Genuine: You play for the company, not your title or turf. Low ego, low drama, no politics. You say it straight, also upwards and always assume good intent.
This role is for you if:
You reason from first principles. You ask what risk a check covers before you run it, and you drop the steps that don’t cover anything.
You don’t trade off customer experience. A clean onboarding is part of good CDD, and you never ask a customer for the same document twice.
You work hard. When the queue spikes or a case gets complex, you stay on it until it’s done right.
You challenge how things are done. If a process is slow, redundant or wrong, you say so, also upwards, and you bring the fix.
You’re diligent. Your files are complete, your reasoning is documented, and they hold up when someone checks them.
This role is not for you if:
You want a fixed checklist and a stable process. Ours changes every time the agents get better.
You see automation as a threat to your job. Here it is the job.
You treat CDD as box-ticking. An examiner may read every rating you set.
You need someone else to tell you a file isn’t good enough.
2 - 6 years experience. Preferably at a top-tier consultancy (McKinsey, BCG, Bain), a high-bar startup, or as Chief of Staff to a founder.
You’ve been promoted or given a bigger scope faster than the standard cycle.
You’ve built automations, tools, or workflows that people use today (SQL, scripting, AI tools), not just recommendations.
Degree from a top-tier university.
Based in New York City and working onsite.
Compensation packages at Augustus include base salary, equity, and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise and geographic location. The annual US base salary range for this role is $100,000-$150,000 + equity.
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.
Additional to the global benefits above, we offer localized benefits such as comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance and a 401(k) retirement plan for our US team.
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.
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We are backed with more than $200M from Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Hummingbird, QED, Creandum, and the founders of Nubank, Ramp, Deel, Circle, Fluidstack, Fuse, and Etched.\n\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nTHE ROLE\n\nAs CDD Analyst at Augustus, you own customer due diligence end to end, from onboarding through periodic and event-driven reviews. You run CIP/CDD on individuals and legal entities, assign customer risk ratings, and run EDD on high-risk customers, complex ownership structures and FBO relationships. You prepare those cases for the High-Risk Customer Review Committee. You report directly to the Deputy BSA Officer.\n\nWe’re building an AI native bank, which is designed to run mostly autonomously. Legacy banks scale KYC with people. We scale it with agents, supporting human decisions. You improve the prompts of our review agents, and you work with Engineering and Product to automate onboarding within our regulatory bouunds. Your judgment sets the standard the agents follow. The goal is to make routine cases disappear so your time goes to the ones that matter.\n\n\n\n\nYOUR FIRST SIX MONTHS\n\n - Months 1-2: Work the queue yourself. Onboard individuals and legal entities end to end: CIP, document review, beneficial ownership certification and risk rating. Learn the Bank’s CRR methodology well enough to see where it’s unclear and where the review agents get it wrong.\n\n - Months 3-4: Own EDD on high-risk customers, complex ownership structures and FBO relationships. Your cases go to the High-Risk Customer Review Committee ready for a decision, with no rework needed. You’re rewriting agent prompts based on what you see in the queue.\n\n - Months 5-6: Agents handle standard onboarding and periodic reviews. You take the hard cases, event-driven reviews and exceptions. You work with Engineering and Product on the next onboarding flows to automate, within limits set by Compliance.\n\n\n\n\nWHO WILL THRIVE AT AUGUSTUS\n\nWe believe that throwing smart people with high agency at big problems produces the best outcomes. We’re building a modern correspondent bank, and we win by having a better team. The people who succeed here share the following traits:\n\n - American Dream: You’d rather shoot for gold than settle for mediocrity. You pick the harder goal and stay optimistic when the odds are against you. If it feels easy, we aimed too low.\n\n - Live Player: You don’t need permission. You rebuild what’s broken without being asked, challenge how things are done, and move before the perfect moment.\n\n - Ever to Excel: You can’t accept good enough and you take your work personally. When it matters, you do what it takes and keep raising the bar for yourself and your team.\n\n - Genuine: You play for the company, not your title or turf. Low ego, low drama, no politics. You say it straight, also upwards and always assume good intent.\n\n\n\nThis role is for you if:\n\n - You reason from first principles. You ask what risk a check covers before you run it, and you drop the steps that don’t cover anything.\n\n - You don’t trade off customer experience. A clean onboarding is part of good CDD, and you never ask a customer for the same document twice.\n\n - You work hard. When the queue spikes or a case gets complex, you stay on it until it’s done right.\n\n - You challenge how things are done. If a process is slow, redundant or wrong, you say so, also upwards, and you bring the fix.\n\n - You’re diligent. Your files are complete, your reasoning is documented, and they hold up when someone checks them.\n\n\n\nThis role is not for you if:\n\n - You want a fixed checklist and a stable process. Ours changes every time the agents get better.\n\n - You see automation as a threat to your job. Here it is the job.\n\n - You treat CDD as box-ticking. An examiner may read every rating you set.\n\n - You need someone else to tell you a file isn’t good enough.\n\n\n\n\nHARD REQUIREMENTS\n\n - 2 - 6 years experience. Preferably at a top-tier consultancy (McKinsey, BCG, Bain), a high-bar startup, or as Chief of Staff to a founder.\n\n - You’ve been promoted or given a bigger scope faster than the standard cycle.\n\n - You’ve built automations, tools, or workflows that people use today (SQL, scripting, AI tools), not just recommendations.\n\n - Degree from a top-tier university.\n\n - Based in New York City and working onsite.\n\n\n\n\nPAY TRANSPARENCY\n\nCompensation packages at Augustus include base salary, equity, and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise and geographic location. The annual US base salary range for this role is $100,000-$150,000 + equity.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE OFFER\n\n - Career Growth: You will be given more responsibility and pushed to grow faster than ever before.\n\n - Network: Your peers are brilliant, highly motivated people. These people will be foundational in your future opportunities.\n\n - Real Participation: Employees are shareholders. 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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 - there is infinite global demand. But international fintechs and banks are left with two unsatisfying options to choose from: Either build on legacy correspondent banks that are slow and unreliable, or interface with middleware providers that neither move nor hold the dollars directly, but instead rely on underlying legacy banks themselves. At Augustus, we collapse the stack by combining two things: A real, national bank charter (in organization), and Marble, our proprietary core banking system, built around intelligence, made of code.
We are a group of ex-founders, founding employees of unicorns, and people who dropped out of university because they believe this is an industry and career defining opportunity. We are backed with more than $200M from Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Hummingbird, QED, Creandum, and the founders of Nubank, Ramp, Deel, Circle, Fluidstack, Fuse, and Etched.
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.
This is a 4-month program: 3 months in Berlin, 1 month in New York. You’ll join one of our tracks (CEO Office, Growth, Product, Ops or Talent) and own real work from day one. Like everyone at Augustus, you’ll run day-to-day work in parallel with one or two larger projects.
Recent projects run by interns:
Rebuilt our talent engine and cut time-to-fill from 82 days to 34.
Took a new product from first customer call to production launch.
Relaunched our CRM to drive data accuracy.
Built the sales case behind our largest deals.
We believe that throwing smart people with high agency at big problems produces the best outcomes. We’re building a modern correspondent bank, and we win by having a better team. The people who succeed here share the following traits:
American Dream: You’d rather shoot for gold than settle for mediocrity. You pick the harder goal and stay optimistic when the odds are against you. If it feels easy, we aimed too low.
Live Player: You don’t need permission. You rebuild what’s broken without being asked, challenge how things are done, and move before the perfect moment.
Ever to Excel: You can’t accept good enough and you take your work personally. When it matters, you do what it takes and keep raising the bar for yourself and your team.
Genuine: You play for the company, not your title or turf. Low ego, low drama, no politics. You say it straight, also upwards and always assume good intent.
This role is for you if:
You are low ego and ready to jump in where you are needed most.
You build your personal AI stack that optimizes your productivity and you treat new AI tools as defaults, not curiosities.
You can build workflows in n8n/zapier/make.
You are comfortable talking to senior leaders, external partners, and candidates from day one.
You are genuinely excited about what we are building.
This is not for you if:
You only want to work on strategic projects.
You need to know exactly what you will be working on before you join.
You are looking for a 9-5 role.
You are currently pursuing or have obtained a Bachelor's or Master's degree from a stellar institution.
You have 1-2 previous internships or roles in high-growth startups, venture capital, or consulting and/or you have demonstrated initiative through side projects, student organizations, research, or entrepreneurial experiences.
You are available for 4 months.
Based in Berlin or willing to relocate.
Who you'll learn from:
Every intern is mentored by a founder or executive.
A peer buddy for day-to-day questions.
A 1:1 with one of our VC investors or angels.
Your setup:
A dedicated stipend covering unlimited AI token usage for your work.
What comes after:
Exceed our expectations and you can convert to full-time, or stay on as a working student.
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.
Additional to the global benefits above, we offer localized benefits such as comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance and a 401(k) retirement plan for our US team.
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.
","descriptionPlain":"Few people get to build a bank from scratch. Even fewer get to build one at a moment when banking itself is being reinvented.\n\n\nThe Dollar is the best product in the history of the world - there is infinite global demand. But international fintechs and banks are left with two unsatisfying options to choose from: Either build on legacy correspondent banks that are slow and unreliable, or interface with middleware providers that neither move nor hold the dollars directly, but instead rely on underlying legacy banks themselves. At Augustus, we collapse the stack by combining two things: A real, national bank charter (in organization), and Marble, our proprietary core banking system, built around intelligence, made of code.\n\n\nWe are a group of ex-founders, founding employees of unicorns, and people who dropped out of university because they believe this is an industry and career defining opportunity. We are backed with more than $200M from Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Hummingbird, QED, Creandum, and the founders of Nubank, Ramp, Deel, Circle, Fluidstack, Fuse, and Etched.\n\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\n\nTHE ROLE\n\nThis is a 4-month program: 3 months in Berlin, 1 month in New York. You’ll join one of our tracks (CEO Office, Growth, Product, Ops or Talent) and own real work from day one. Like everyone at Augustus, you’ll run day-to-day work in parallel with one or two larger projects.\n\n\nRecent projects run by interns:\n\n - Rebuilt our talent engine and cut time-to-fill from 82 days to 34.\n\n - Took a new product from first customer call to production launch.\n\n - Relaunched our CRM to drive data accuracy.\n\n - Built the sales case behind our largest deals.\n \n \n\n\nWHO WILL THRIVE AT AUGUSTUS\n\nWe believe that throwing smart people with high agency at big problems produces the best outcomes. We’re building a modern correspondent bank, and we win by having a better team. The people who succeed here share the following traits:\n\n - American Dream: You’d rather shoot for gold than settle for mediocrity. You pick the harder goal and stay optimistic when the odds are against you. If it feels easy, we aimed too low.\n\n - Live Player: You don’t need permission. You rebuild what’s broken without being asked, challenge how things are done, and move before the perfect moment.\n\n - Ever to Excel: You can’t accept good enough and you take your work personally. When it matters, you do what it takes and keep raising the bar for yourself and your team.\n\n - Genuine: You play for the company, not your title or turf. Low ego, low drama, no politics. You say it straight, also upwards and always assume good intent.\n\n\n\nThis role is for you if:\n\n - You are low ego and ready to jump in where you are needed most.\n\n - You build your personal AI stack that optimizes your productivity and you treat new AI tools as defaults, not curiosities.\n\n - You can build workflows in n8n/zapier/make.\n\n - You are comfortable talking to senior leaders, external partners, and candidates from day one.\n\n - You are genuinely excited about what we are building.\n\nThis is not for you if:\n\n - You only want to work on strategic projects.\n\n - You need to know exactly what you will be working on before you join.\n\n - You are looking for a 9-5 role.\n\n\n\n\nHARD REQUIREMENTS\n\n - You are currently pursuing or have obtained a Bachelor's or Master's degree from a stellar institution.\n\n - You have 1-2 previous internships or roles in high-growth startups, venture capital, or consulting and/or you have demonstrated initiative through side projects, student organizations, research, or entrepreneurial experiences.\n\n - You are available for 4 months.\n\n - Based in Berlin or willing to relocate.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU GET\n\nWho you'll learn from: \n\n - Every intern is mentored by a founder or executive.\n\n - A peer buddy for day-to-day questions.\n\n - A 1:1 with one of our VC investors or angels.\n\nYour setup:\n\n - A dedicated stipend covering unlimited AI token usage for your work.\n\nWhat comes after:\n\n - Exceed our expectations and you can convert to full-time, or stay on as a working student.\n\n \n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE OFFER\n\n - Career Growth: You will be given more responsibility and pushed to grow faster than ever before.\n\n - Network: Your peers are brilliant, highly motivated people. These people will be foundational in your future opportunities.\n\n - Real Participation: Employees are shareholders. You will think and act like an owner.\n\n - 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.\n\nAdditional to the global benefits above, we offer localized benefits such as comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance and a 401(k) retirement plan for our US team.\n\n\n\nAugustus is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people from all backgrounds can thrive and where different viewpoints and experiences are valued and respected. 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