Software Engineer

We are hiring two Software Engineers. Phantom Studios (Phantom Ltd) is the Isle of Man software studio behind PhantomTrace and our KYC AI platform. We work alongside our sister companies Advantyx (forensic accounting) and Odin Fiduciaries (corporate services). We build software for forensics, KYC and compliance, and fraud work, and we also take on software work for eGaming companies.

This is a small team, so what you build ships and gets used. Both posts are the same role. We are growing the engineering side and there is more work than one person can carry. You will own projects, not tickets. You take something from a rough idea to a running thing people rely on, and you keep it running.

We build with AI agents every day. Claude Code is central to how we work, so this role sits right in the middle of that. What you'll do:

Build and own some of our projects end to end: backend, deployment, and the day-to-day of keeping them healthy. Design systems that are simple to run and simple for the next person to read. Work with AI agents as a normal part of how you build, and know when to trust them and when not to. Integrate with third-party services (KYC providers, payment and gaming platforms, forensic data sources).

Pick up whatever the project needs, including bits of frontend, data work, and infrastructure. What you need:

Strong backend engineering in at least one language, and the sense to pick the right tool rather than the familiar one. Cloud and deployment. You can put a service into production and look after it, not just write the code. Solid grounding in system design and engineering principles. You think about failure, data, and maintenance before you think about frameworks.

Fluent with agentic development. You have built real things with coding agents (Claude Code or similar) and you understand context management, skills and subagents, prompting, and orchestration. You have a view on where they help and where they get in the way. API design and integration. Clean interfaces, sensible contracts, third-party services wired in without drama.

Nice to have:

Enough frontend and UI sense to build a decent interface, even if you are not a frontend specialist. Comfortable across several languages, for example Python, Go, or Java, and happy to pick up whatever a project calls for. Application security, and care when handling sensitive data. Any exposure to forensics, compliance, fraud, or eGaming.

Not required, we will teach the domain.