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, with practically infinite global demand, but distribution is broken. Global clearing runs on legacy banks that are closed 115 days a year, built for humans and take two days to settle. Augustus is the update to the internet era. We received conditional approval from the OCC to charter America’s first stablecoin-native clearing bank that is always open, made for machines, at the speed of compute.

We are a group of operators, unicorn early employees, ex-founders and people who walked away from degrees because they believe this is an industry and career defining opportunity. We're backed with $40M from Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures, Creandum and founders of Ramp, Deel and Circle.

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

Our USA Regulatory Compliance team ensures Augustus' programmable banking rails outpace the speed of modern finance without breaking. You will work directly with our Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Risk Officer to translate complex federal and state statutes into scalable code and airtight controls. Your mission is to turn compliance from a bottleneck into a competitive advantage, giving our growth, product, and engineering teams the confidence to deploy products that are both boundary-pushing and fully covered.

You'll navigate the complexity of US banking laws and consumer protection regulations to translate them into clean, automated code and scalable processes. You decide how we manage risk without killing product velocity. You'll build the systems that ensure every product, service, account, and transaction is compliant at scale, moving us from manual oversight to real-time, algorithmic governance.

Success means Augustus is the gold standard. You will build a compliance engine so robust and transparent that regulators use us as the blueprint. You own the outcomes, you set the bar for what "great" looks like, and you make sure our greatest competitive advantage is our ability to do difficult things with excellence.

Your First Six Months

• Month 1-2: You find where manual friction slows us down, where controls are missing, and where governance doesn't exist yet. You draft the technical requirements to fix it.

• Month 3-4: You own the rhythm. You ship our regulatory reporting framework and help teams launch new features safely and at high velocity. You've developed your testing framework and kicked off your first tests to provide the organization with assurance of safety and soundness.

• Month 5-6: Your encoded requirements and assurance checks are what let the product team move fast with confidence. Compliance is built into how we ship. You're still finding more to automate.

Who Will Thrive At Augustus

We believe that throwing smart people with high agency at big problems produces the best outcomes. The people who succeed here share the following traits:

• Relentless: You can't leave something broken. You don't stop because it got hard or because no one is watching.

• Set The Bar: You're harder on yourself than anyone else would be. You don't need external accountability to care about quality.

• Shape The Game: You don't wait for a playbook and you don't need one. You walk into genuinely new territory and figure it out. You move before anyone asked you to.

• Systems First: You don't solve problems by adding people or effort. You build systems that make the problem smaller. Your first instinct is to automate, not to handle it manually.

This role is for you if:

• You find mapping existing banking regulations to a genuinely new way of delivering financial products intellectually interesting, not just technically challenging.

• You prefer building automated compliance workflows from scratch over maintaining legacy processes someone else designed.

• You thrive in high-stakes environments where your judgment directly determines whether a product ships.

• You are obsessed with precision and get frustrated when regulatory interpretations lack a clear path to execution.

• You want to be the primary architect of a compliance engine that will scale globally as we expand.

This is not for you if:

• You prioritize the comfort of other teams or hiring more people instead of trusting your own ability.

• You prefer to wait for external counsel's approval before forming an internal opinion on complex fintech regulations.

• You struggle to distill 50-page regulatory updates into short, actionable bullet points for a product manager.

• You feel uneasy moving fast and making high-stakes decisions with 80% of the information instead of waiting for 100%.

• You prefer managing vendors, junior employees, and high-level strategy over hands-on execution.

   

Hard Requirements

• 5+ years of regulatory compliance experience, specifically involved with US banks or mature fintech.

• Deep, working knowledge of Reg E, Reg Z, the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), and GLBA.

• Direct experience developing, drafting, and operating compliance policies, assurance testing, and risk assessments.

• Based in New York City or the Dallas area, or willing to relocate.

Pay transparency:

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-$200,000 + equity.

What We Offer

• 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.

• Health & Insurance: Our US team receives comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plans. We are offering 401(k) retirement plans.

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.