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.

The Role

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.

Your First Six Months

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.

Who Will Thrive At 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 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.