Software Engineer

We are looking for driven, talented Software Engineers to help us build our SaaS-based anti-money laundering solutions, which help organizations fight financial crime.

We are building cutting-edge solutions that help prevent money flowing to and from bad actors to create a safer world. Your work will enable the platform that all our products are built on. We own these areas across the ComplyAdvantage “Mesh” platform:

• →API Gateway and Authentication
• →User and Access Management
• →Roles and Permissions framework
• →Public API docs tooling and best practices

As a Software Engineer, you will: 

• →Work alongside other software engineers within the platform tribe
• →Help us deliver new features and maintain our platform as we apply new technologies and scale our systems
• →Learn quickly and  adopt the technologies we use to develop and deploy code to Kubernetes
• →Contribute to sprint planning and demo the features you’ve worked on to stakeholders
• →Be responsible for the quality of your code, write tests, and take ownership of systems that ensure code quality
• →Adopt best practices (and suggest improvements to them), to get code from initial requirements to deployed services in production

• 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 and 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.

As a Software Engineer, you have:

• Experience in Java/Kotlin , writing production-grade applications
• At least 2 years of formal experience,or a passion for software with many years of experience that predates your formal career
• Experience writing tests and understanding of their importance
• Experience working in an agile environment and pair programming
• Experience working on the cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) and/or using containerized infrastructure (Kubernetes/Docker); the infrastructure itself will be provided by an SRE team

Nice to haves:

• Experience working in a multi-disciplinary team (ML Engineers, SREs, Product)
• Worked in an agile environment and have experience in pair programming

Education:

• BSc/BA degree in computer science, engineering or related discipline OR relevant years of experience with the required skills.

• Equity as we want you to have a part of what we are building 
• Private medical insurance designed to keep you ensuring peace of mind while you excel in your career
• 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 

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.