Engineering Manager

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.