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As a Senior Backend Software Engineer at Step, you'll own features from inception to production, improve Kotlin services, ensure code quality, and work collaboratively in a small team.

Manage end-to-end interview scheduling across time zones and complex panels, serve as primary candidate contact, partner with recruiters and hiring managers to organize pipelines and feedback, coordinate candidate travel and expenses, and improve recruiting workflows and candidate experience.

Lead and scale Step’s compliance program across banking, lending, and payments regulations. Build policies, manage exams, audits, monitoring, and issue tracking. Partner cross-functionally and with sponsor banks to ensure compliant product development, translate regulatory change into action, and serve as primary regulator and auditor contact to support rapid growth.

Own full-cycle recruiting for non-technical roles across G&A, Operations, Marketing, People, and Finance. Partner with leadership on hiring strategy, source passive and inbound candidates, screen resumes and conduct initial interviews, and deliver a white-glove candidate experience while driving hiring decisions to offer.

Lead visual designer responsible for defining and evolving Step's visual identity across product, marketing, physical experiences, and brand systems. Create static and motion assets, build scalable visual systems, document brand guidelines, mentor designers, collaborate with product and marketing, and explore AI-assisted creative workflows to maintain high-quality, cohesive customer experiences.

Own and evolve the design system connecting Figma and production code across iOS, Android, and Web. Build reusable components, tokens, tooling, and governance; improve design-to-code workflows, accessibility, documentation, and AI-powered automation; partner with design and engineering to raise product quality and speed.

Lead Risk strategy and team to minimize fraud and losses while preserving a frictionless customer experience. Partner with Product, Engineering, Data, Compliance, and Finance to embed risk-aware decisioning, scale operations, automate technical solutions, and continuously improve risk models. Own fraud loss outcomes and build multidisciplinary risk functions across Risk Ops, Analytics, Disputes, and Investigations.

The Accounting Manager will own the full-cycle close, lead external audits, manage accounting projects, implement policies, and drive process improvements.

Lead product design and UX strategy for growth initiatives (signup, onboarding, rewards, gamification) across mobile (iOS/Android) and web. Drive projects end-to-end, collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Marketing, mentor other designers, improve processes, and contribute to the Step Design System. Must ship consumer-facing products, communicate design decisions clearly, and maintain high visual and interaction quality. Portfolio required.

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you'll build and deploy ML models for risk and fraud detection, leading technical efforts and collaborating cross-functionally.