Themis

Build and maintain accessible, performant frontend interfaces collaborating across teams from design to production. | Strong experience with modern JavaScript/TypeScript, React, HTML, CSS, API integration, and passion for user experience with maintainable, tested code. | About Themis Themis is a collaborative governance, risk, and compliance platform helping banks, credit unions, and fintechs streamline oversight, strengthen compliance programs, and move faster with confidence. Our customers operate in highly regulated environments where strong governance, risk management, and compliance practices are critical. We partner closely with financial institutions and fintechs to help them build scalable, effective oversight programs, strengthen third-party oversight, and navigate an increasingly complex regulatory landscape. At Themis, we believe great companies are built through partnership, expertise, ownership, and execution. We’re looking for team members who are excited to solve meaningful problems, build trusted relationships, and help shape the future of governance, risk, and compliance. About the Role We’re looking for a Frontend Engineer to craft the interfaces that make complex governance, risk, and compliance work feel clear and effortless for our customers. In this role you’ll build and refine the Themis web application, turning sophisticated compliance workflows into intuitive, performant, and accessible experiences. You’ll partner closely with design, product, and backend engineers to ship features that customers rely on every day in high-stakes environments. The ideal candidate cares deeply about the user experience and the details, writes clean and maintainable code, and takes ownership of features from design through production. You believe usability is a core part of building trust in a regulated product. Working Hours & Availability Themis is a remote-first team. Engineering operates with flexible working hours and supports asynchronous work, but all engineers are expected to maintain meaningful daily overlap with our core collaboration hours of approximately 11:00 AM–4:00 PM ET for standups, pairing, code review, and time-sensitive work. This role may occasionally require availability outside of standard business hours to support releases or respond to high-priority production issues, but it is not part of a regular overnight on-call rotation. We support flexibility where possible, but regular or extended blocks of unavailable time during core hours should be discussed and aligned in advance. What You’ll Do Building the Product Build and maintain features in the Themis web application using modern frontend frameworks Translate designs and complex workflows into intuitive, responsive, and accessible interfaces Collaborate with backend engineers to design and integrate APIs Own features end to end, from design and implementation through testing and release Quality & Performance Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code Optimize application performance, responsiveness, and accessibility Build and maintain reusable components and contribute to our design system Participate in code reviews and help raise the bar for frontend quality Collaboration & Craft Partner with product and design to shape requirements and user experience Contribute to technical decisions, architecture, and frontend best practices Help ensure the product remains usable, reliable, and trustworthy for regulated customers Required Qualifications Strong experience building production web applications with modern JavaScript or TypeScript Proficiency with React Solid understanding of HTML, CSS, and responsive, accessible design Experience integrating with REST or GraphQL APIs Experience writing tested, maintainable frontend code Strong attention to detail and a passion for great user experience Ability to own features end to end and collaborate across disciplines Preferred Qualifications Experience with TypeScript and modern build and testing tooling Experience contributing to or maintaining a design system or component library Experience building data-dense or workflow-heavy enterprise applications Experience in financial services, fintech, or other regulated domains Experience working in a startup or high-growth company What We Value The people who thrive at Themis tend to share a common set of characteristics: Hunger & Ownership We act like owners. We take initiative, spot gaps, and drive results for both our customers and the company. Radical Accountability We own outcomes without blame or excuses. We communicate early, learn from mistakes, and stay focused on solutions. Problem Solver Mentality We are builders, not blockers. We bring recommendations, options, and next steps, not just problems. Mission & Customer Focus Our customers trust us with critical compliance work. We take that seriously, advocate for their needs, and look for ways to deliver real value. Low Ego, High Impact We care more about solving problems than getting credit. We stay collaborative, coachable, and ready to jump in wherever needed. Adaptability & Resilience We stay flexible and steady through change. When priorities shift or challenges come up, we keep moving forward. Curiosity & Continuous Learning We are excited to learn. We dig into how the product works, investigate issues, use AI and automation thoughtfully, and keep growing into trusted experts. Why Join Themis? At Themis, you’ll build the experiences that make complex compliance work feel simple. You’ll own meaningful features, shape the product’s look and feel, and see your work used directly by the people who keep financial institutions compliant. If you care about craft, usability, and ownership, and want to build at a growing company, we’d love to hear from you.

Design and build secure backend systems and APIs using Ruby on Rails to support financial use cases. | Strong experience with Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, security, and maintainable production code ownership. | About Themis Themis is a collaborative governance, risk, and compliance platform helping banks, credit unions, and fintechs streamline oversight, strengthen compliance programs, and move faster with confidence. Our customers operate in highly regulated environments where strong governance, risk management, and compliance practices are critical. We partner closely with financial institutions and fintechs to help them build scalable, effective oversight programs, strengthen third-party oversight, and navigate an increasingly complex regulatory landscape. At Themis, we believe great companies are built through partnership, expertise, ownership, and execution. We’re looking for team members who are excited to solve meaningful problems, build trusted relationships, and help shape the future of governance, risk, and compliance. About the Role We’re looking for a Backend Engineer to help build and scale the secure, reliable systems that power the Themis governance, risk, and compliance platform. In this role, you’ll work on a standard modern Rails stack, including Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, and Redis, building the APIs, services, background jobs, and data models behind our product. You’ll solve for the reliability, security, performance, and data integrity that financial institutions and fintechs depend on every day. The ideal candidate has strong Rails experience, writes robust and well-tested code, thinks carefully about data and edge cases, and takes ownership of the systems they build. You understand that in a regulated domain, correctness, security, and reliability are not afterthoughts. They are part of the product. Working Hours & Availability Themis is a remote-first team. Engineering operates with flexible working hours and supports asynchronous work, but all engineers are expected to maintain meaningful daily overlap with our core collaboration hours of approximately 11:00 AM–4:00 PM ET for standups, pairing, code review, and time-sensitive work. This role participates in a shared on-call rotation and may require availability outside of standard business hours to support production systems and respond to incidents. We aim to keep on-call sustainable through fair rotations and strong tooling. We support flexibility where possible, but regular or extended blocks of unavailable time during core hours should be discussed and aligned in advance. What You’ll Do Build and Scale the Platform Design, build, and maintain backend systems on a modern Rails stack Work with Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, background jobs, APIs, and service integrations Own features end to end, from design and implementation through testing and deployment Build secure, reliable APIs and backend workflows that support complex GRC use cases Design data models and database structures that prioritize integrity, performance, and long-term maintainability Collaborate with frontend engineers to design clean, well-documented APIs Improve Quality, Reliability, and Architecture Write clean, well-tested, maintainable Rails code Contribute to architecture decisions as the platform scales Identify and address performance bottlenecks, reliability risks, and data integrity issues Participate in code reviews and help raise the engineering bar Improve backend patterns, tooling, and development practices over time Support Security, Compliance, and Collaboration Apply security and data-handling best practices appropriate to a regulated domain Partner with product to translate customer needs into thoughtful technical solutions Support audit, compliance, and data-integrity requirements relevant to our customers Help maintain systems that customers can trust for critical governance, risk, and compliance workflows Required Qualifications Strong professional experience building production applications with Ruby on Rails or a similar modern backend framework Experience working with PostgreSQL or another relational database, including data modeling and query performance Experience with Redis, background jobs, caching, queues, or similar backend infrastructure Strong experience designing and building APIs Experience writing tested, maintainable, production-grade code Strong understanding of security, reliability, performance, and data integrity fundamentals Ability to own backend systems end to end and manage complexity thoughtfully Strong communication skills and comfort working closely with product, frontend, and other engineering team members Preferred Qualifications Deep experience with Ruby on Rails in a production SaaS environment Experience scaling Rails applications and improving backend performance Experience with background job frameworks, async processing, queues, or event-driven patterns Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure Experience handling sensitive data and supporting compliance, audit, or security requirements Experience in financial services, fintech, GRC, or another regulated domain Experience working in a startup or high-growth company What We Value The people who thrive at Themis tend to share a common set of characteristics: Hunger & Ownership We act like owners. We take initiative, spot gaps, and drive results for both our customers and the company. Radical Accountability We own outcomes without blame or excuses. We communicate early, learn from mistakes, and stay focused on solutions. Problem Solver Mentality We are builders, not blockers. We bring recommendations, options, and next steps, not just problems. Mission & Customer Focus Our customers trust us with critical compliance work. We take that seriously, advocate for their needs, and look for ways to deliver real value. Low Ego, High Impact We care more about solving problems than getting credit. We stay collaborative, coachable, and ready to jump in wherever needed. Adaptability & Resilience We stay flexible and steady through change. When priorities shift or challenges come up, we keep moving forward. Curiosity & Continuous Learning We are excited to learn. We dig into how the product works, investigate issues, use AI and automation thoughtfully, and keep growing into trusted experts. Why Join Themis? At Themis, you’ll build the backbone of a platform that financial institutions trust with critical compliance work. You’ll own real systems, influence the architecture, and have a direct impact on reliability and scale as we grow. If you care about building robust, secure systems and want real ownership at a growing company, we’d love to hear from you.