What you will be doing:
We are looking for a dynamic and experienced Engineering Manager to join our innovative Tech Team. You will collaborate across functions, engaging in both the design and implementation of high-performance systems crucial for detecting financial risks.
As an Engineering Manager, you will:
- Take ownership for your team, being responsible for current team members growth and development, plus hiring and onboarding new team members
- Foster a positive and thriving work environment that promotes innovation.
- Mentor and coach your team, maintaining a learning mindset and openness to new ideas and technologies.
- Set the direction for your team and take accountability for tech decisions.
- Work alongside with your product counterpart, being accountable for delivery against the roadmap.
- Collaborate, both within your team and across the tribe to ensure your team’s implementation meets industry standards.
- Report to the Director of Engineering, and will work with the other Engineering Managers in the tribe. Working as a group, you will own cross-team initiatives and improvements.
Our Tech Stack:
- Our technology stack is designed to run on public cloud architectures, notably AWS and GCP
- Development is organised around Kotlin and Python for our backend languages and TypeScript/ES6+React for our frontend stack
- We make substantial use of relational database technologies, notably Postgres, Yugabyte
- We also use an event-sourced model powered by Kafka for our communication bus and gRPC for our intra-service communication protocol
- We use modern observability solutions from Grafana Cloud and deploy our code using ArgoCD
We have a strong emphasis on engineering excellence and strive to ship the best possible code and the best possible solutions to our customers
About you
As an Engineering Manager, you will have:
- Proven experience in managing and growing high-performing engineering teams.
- Strong knowledge of engineering best practices, including architecture and testing.
- Past or current experience in a JVM-based language or Python.
- Experience with data-intensive applications and relational databases (e.g., Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle).
- Expertise in designing and building microservices.
- Excellent communication and writing skills, including the ability to write clear technical documentation.
- Experience collaborating with product and commercial teams.
Nice to haves:
- Experience with AWS and Docker/Kubernetes.
- Background in startup or scale-up environments
If you are passionate about leading teams, driving technical excellence, and working in a collaborative environment, we would love to hear from you! Join us in creating scalable and efficient systems that make a difference in financial risk detection.
Benefits:
- Equity as we want you to have a part of what we are building
- Unlimited Time Off Policy- A work-life balance and focus on our well-being are critical to keeping us performing at our best
- We embrace a hybrid approach that requires employees to be in the office for two days a week. We strongly believe that this approach fosters collaboration and enables the building of meaningful relationships
- You will also get a new starter budget to kit out your home office
- Opportunity to work on innovative projects with smart-minded people keen to share their knowledge and continuously improve
- Annual learning budget (prorated based on start date) to drive your performance and career development
About us:
Our mission is to empower every business to eliminate financial crime.
By harnessing AI, a unified platform, and an extensive partner ecosystem, we help customers turn compliance into a catalyst for growth, operational resilience, and enduring regulatory trust.
More than 3,000 enterprises across 75 countries rely on our end-to-end platform and the world’s most comprehensive financial crime risk intelligence. With full-stack agentic automation, we help organizations automate up to 95% of KYC, AML, and sanctions reviews, cut onboarding times by 50%, reduce false positives by 70%, and handle 7x more work with the same staff.
ComplyAdvantage is headquartered in London and has global hubs in New York, Lisbon, Singapore, and Cluj-Napoca. It is backed by Balderton Capital, Index Ventures, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Goldman Sachs, and Andreessen Horowitz. Learn more about compliance re-engineered for the age of AI at complyadvantage.com.
Skills Required
- Proven experience in managing high-performing engineering teams
- Strong knowledge of engineering best practices, architecture, and testing
- Experience with a JVM-based language or Python
- Experience with data-intensive applications and relational databases
- Expertise in designing and building microservices
- Excellent communication and writing skills
- Experience collaborating with product and commercial teams
What We Do
At ComplyAdvantage, we believe that compliance doesn’t have to be painful. Businesses need real-time financial crime insight to put them in control. We enable you to understand the real risk of who you're doing business with, through the world's only global, real-time risk database of people and companies. We actively identify tens of thousands of risk events from millions of structured and unstructured data points - every single day. Our suite of configurable cloud services integrates seamlessly to help automate and reduce the frustration of complying with Sanctions, AML and CTF regulations.
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