Full-Time
Software Engineer
Bretton AI
51-200 employees
AI-driven SaaS for financial crime compliance
Compensation Overview
$168k - $213k/yr
San Francisco, CA, USA
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- 4+ years (Engineer) / 6+ years (Sr. Engineer) / 8+ years (Staff Engineer) of experience building production software
- Strong full-stack capabilities, including backend services, APIs, databases, and (nice-to-have) frontend development
- A track record of shipping customer-facing products where reliability is critical
- An end-to-end ownership mindset, from requirements gathering through deployment and iteration
- Clear communication skills—you can explain technical decisions to diverse audiences
- Product thinking—you understand why you’re building something, not just how
- We work with a mix of TypeScript, Python, Node.js, React, cloud infrastructure, and workflow orchestration frameworks. You don’t need prior experience with our exact stack, but you should be comfortable learning new technologies quickly and applying them in production
- Own substantial features from conception to production, working directly with customers to understand their needs, designing scalable architectures, and shipping code that measurably improves compliance operations
- Develop intuitive interfaces for case management, reporting, and analytics
- Build document analysis and verification systems
- Build agentic workflows that coordinate AI tools and data services to perform research, enrichment, and verification, while keeping humans in the loop for review
- Create tools that help customers configure and customize their compliance workflows
- Building workflow engines, orchestration systems, or process automation tools
- Working in regulated industries where compliance, auditability, and data integrity are critical
- Integrating AI/LLM capabilities into production applications
- Creating configuration systems, admin tools, or workflow builders for non-technical users
- Designing systems for multi-tenancy, versioning, or complex authorization models
- A strong foundation in data modeling and distributed systems
Bretton AI provides an AI platform for financial crime operations used by regulated banks and global financial institutions. It uses AI agents to automate KYC/KYB, AML and sanctions investigations, and ongoing transaction monitoring, integrating with existing compliance systems and pulling data from 200+ sources to generate investigation outputs and audit-ready narratives. Its Trust Infrastructure governance system embeds regulatory guidance, model risk management, continuous AI evaluation, and quality assurance to ensure explainable, regulator-aligned operations. The company sells SaaS with tiered pricing to banks and large fintech platforms, differentiating itself through governance and auditability and aiming to define the standard for how AI is deployed in financial institutions and expand into more financial crime domains.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Seed
Total Funding
$130K
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2023
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- $75M Series B in February 2026 fuels expansion into larger OCC-regulated banks.
- Agents completed 1.2M investigations, saving $10M and 195K hours for customers.
- Average contract value rose to $201K by 2026 from $25K at 2023 Seed.
What critics are saying
- NICE Actimize erodes market share in large banks within 12-18 months via core integration.
- New OCC rule in Q3 2026 triggers 20-30% churn demanding certified validation.
- Feedzai's 40% better false positive reduction causes switches in 6-12 months.
What makes Bretton AI unique
- Proprietary Trust Infrastructure ensures audit-ready, explainable AI agents from inception.
- Bretton AI Horizon automates L2 investigations with agentic workspace integrating LexisNexis and Equifax.
- AI agents leverage 200+ data sources for KYC, AML, and sanctions across L1 and L2 workflows.
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Flexible Leave Options
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↑ 0%Introducing Bretton AI Horizon: the agentic workspace for complex investigations. February 25, 2026 Bretton AI agents complete alert reviews with rigor, speed, and deep auditability. But some investigations need an escalated review driven by humans. This is the reality of financial crime compliance. While AI workflows excel at automating high-volume, repetitive L1 alert reviews, the most complex and critical work - the Level 2 (L2) investigation - requires a different approach. These are the cases that don't fit a template, where an experienced investigator's judgment is the most valuable asset. Today, Bretton AI is proud to introduce Bretton AI Horizon, the first automation platform designed specifically for complex financial crime escalations. Horizon is an agentic workspace that gives your best investigators the AI tool they need to complete thorough reviews with rigor, speed and quality. The escalation challenge. L2 investigations are, by nature, unpredictable. They are often unstructured, requiring analysts to navigate a maze of internal systems and external data sources. The process is a frustrating "swivel chair" marathon of logging in, copying data, and manually piecing together a case file - all before the real analytical work can even begin. This friction doesn't just slow down investigations; it puts a ceiling on the capacity and effectiveness of a bank's most experienced compliance professionals. Horizon: an agentic workspace for L2 analysis. Horizon is designed to break through that ceiling. It is an interactive, agent-powered workspace that layers on top of your existing case management and screening systems, meaning you don't need a massive migration to get started. With Horizon, investigators can direct an AI agent to: * Retrieve records and data without "swiveling" between systems. This works for internal systems as well as external sources like LexisNexis, Thomson Reuters, and Equifax. * Create research plans in line with your internal best practices and execute these complex reviews with ease. * Draft narratives from your firm's narrative library after completing the analysis, ensuring consistency and adherence to your established templates. Horizon handles the laborious data gathering and documentation, freeing up your experts to focus on the critical thinking and nuanced analysis that only a human can provide. Built on a foundation of Trust. Bretton Horizon is built atop its proprietary Trust Infrastructure, ensuring deep auditability, model validation, and information security controls. This gives banks of all sizes the confidence to safely deploy agentic AI into their most sensitive workflows. Every action the agent takes is explainable, auditable, and governable, meeting the rigorous standards of financial regulators. With Bretton, you can now automate L1 reviews end-to-end and give your best analysts Horizon to handle complex escalations. It's a complete solution for the modern financial crime compliance team, enabling growth without compromise. Bretton AI: the platform for L1 and L2 compliance operations. Bretton AI is now the only platform that completes end-to-end L1 investigations and with the launch of Horizon, improves the efficacy of L2 operations. One workspace for all of your financial crime intelligence work.
Greenlite AI, which recently closed a $15 million Series A led by venture firm Greylock, is hiring aggressively in every department to support a waitlist of customers looking to automate and improve their financial compliance workflows.
Streamlining KYB: Greenlite AI partners with Middesk to accelerate due diligence.
This effort is part of the tech giant’s effort to foster trust among its cloud customers as it sells them AI products from companies like OpenAI and xAI, the Financial Times (FT) reported Sunday (June 8). Sarah Bird, Microsoft’s head of Responsible AI, told the FT the company would soon add a “safety” category to its “model leaderboard,” a feature it created recently for developers to rank iterations from providers including China’s DeepSeek and France’s Mistral. The leaderboard, which is accessible to clients using the Azure Foundry developer platform, is expected to influence which AI models and applications are purchased via Microsoft
“The last 20 years of compliance has been broadly building systems that help you identify risks,” Greenlite AI CEO Will Lawrence said during a conversation with PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster. “What happens when it goes wrong? That’s when a human gets involved. It’s a very labor-intensive and operationally intensive process.”. A study cited by Lawrence alleged that up to 85% of what compliance investigators do is non-analytical work, such as document processing, form-filling and internal follow-ups. “If you told me my sales team was only going to spend 15% of their time selling, I’d be very concerned,” he said. “But we’ve tolerated that in compliance.”