Software Engineer (Java / Kotlin)

What you will be doing:

You will work in the Transaction Monitoring Squad within the Risk Apps Tribe. The team is responsible for delivering an end-to-end fraud detection solution as part of the platform used by our clients.

As a Software Engineer, you will: 

• Write great code. We understand code is read more than it’s written, and better off tested. Maintainability is a must.
• Shape what we build. Our platform is constantly evolving to attain greater scale efficiently. And our product is constantly evolving to provide the most relevant fincrime insights.
• Own delivery. We’re obsessed with shipping value; you’ll own work beyond just a pull request.
• Grow together. You’ll review other’s work and happily seek feedback on yours to ensure we build a better codebase and sharpen each other's skills. We believe in developing our people so you will play an important part in mentoring juniors in the team.
• Champion engineering values. You’ll care about bugs, scalability and uptime.
• Embody a collaborative Spirit. You’ll be working closely with Product Owners, Engineers and Data Scientists to design and implement your solutions. We work as a team and your input will be key in many architectural decisions (some that you would own) and in driving consensus.

Our Tech Stack:

• Our technology stack is designed to run on public cloud architectures, notably AWS and GCP.
• Development is organised around Java, 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 also use noSQL technologies such as Cassandra.
• 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 Datadog 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 a Software Engineer, you will have:

• Experience writing large scale production-grade applications
• Worked in an agile environment and experience in pair programming.
• Experience working with cloud-based (AWS/Azure/GCP) or containerised infrastructure (Kubernetes/Docker/Jenkins).

Nice to haves:

• Experience handling big data and building data processing pipelines (Spark).
• Experience with ML/AI systems.

Education:

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

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.