Engineering Manager

Description

Summary: Seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead and mentor a high-performing team, driving technical excellence in designing and implementing systems for financial risk detection. Highlights: 1. Lead and grow high-performing engineering teams 2. Drive technical decisions and ensure industry standards 3. Work on innovative projects with smart-minded people **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.