
Award-winning AML & CFT technology powered by explainable AI increases your risk coverage, helps you identify more crime, and reduces your false positives. Combine AML transaction monitoring, payment screening, and pKYC in one tool & add fraud detection for even more comprehensive coverage.

Award-winning AML & CFT technology powered by explainable AI increases your risk coverage, helps you identify more crime, and reduces your false positives. Combine AML transaction monitoring, payment screening, and pKYC in one tool & add fraud detection for even more comprehensive coverage.
Product: Cloud-native AML transaction monitoring, payment screening, pKYC and fraud detection using explainable AI
Founded / HQ: 2018, Munich
Funding (notable rounds): Series A $10M (2021); Series B $17M (Jan 2023); Series C $56M (2025)
Scale: Processes billions of transactions across ~60 countries
Anti-money laundering (AML), counter-financing of terrorism (CFT), payment screening, fraud prevention and transaction surveillance for financial services.
2018
Financial Services
$10M
$17M
Participating investors included DN Capital, Coalition, BlackFin and Picus
$56M
Participating investors included Macquarie Capital, Rabobank, BlackFin, Sands Capital, DN Capital, Picus and Coalition
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About Us Hawk is the leading provider of AI-supported anti-money laundering and fraud detection technology. Banks and payment providers globally are using Hawk’s powerful combination of traditional rules and explainable AI to improve the effectiveness of their AML compliance and fraud prevention by identifying more crime while maximizing efficiency by reducing false positives. With our solution, we are playing a vital role in the global fight against Money Laundering, Fraud, or the financing of terrorism. We offer a culture of mutual trust, support and passion – while providing individuals with opportunities to grow professionally and make a difference in the world.
As the Customer Engineering Team Lead, you will build and manage a new team of technical experts responsible for ensuring the stability and reliability of our platform for our global clients. You will be the crucial link between our customer facing teams, our clients, and our core Engineering, Infrastructure, and InfoSec teams. Your mission is to lead by example, providing technical guidance to support new and existing customers. You will help pre-sales teams design implementation solutions and answer technical RFPs, while also solving complex technical problems for existing customers that our customer-facing teams cannot resolve. This role requires a hands-on leader who is comfortable in both technical and client-facing worlds—able to read code, understand complex systems, and explain those complexities easily to technical customers.
Your Responsibilities
Your Profile
Minimum of 7 years of hands-on experience in technical support, application support, or systems administration, with at least 2 years in a senior, tech lead, or team lead role.
Proven track record of leading or mentoring a technical support team in a fast-paced, 24/7 environment (experience in B2B SaaS, FinTech, or a regulated industry is a major plus).
Strong Technical Expertise:
Code Comprehension: Demonstrable ability to read and understand object-oriented code (e.g., Python, Java, Go, C#). Hands-on coding or scripting experience (e.g., Python, Bash) is highly desirable.
Infrastructure: Solid understanding of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and corporate networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, VPNs, firewalls).
Operating Systems: Expertise in troubleshooting on Linux environments.
Security Mindset: Strong understanding of IT security principles, access control (IAM), and incident response best practices.
Excellent problem-solving: Superior analytical, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis skills.
Strong communicator: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences, including technical customers, and remain calm under pressure.
Experience with support ticketing systems (e.g., Jira, Zendesk) and monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana).
Experience with ITIL or similar service management frameworks is desirable.