ComplyAdvantage provides AI-driven detection and risk intelligence to help businesses identify and prevent money laundering, fraud, sanctions evasion, and other financial crimes. The company delivers…
ComplyAdvantage provides AI-driven detection and risk intelligence to help businesses identify and prevent money laundering, fraud, sanctions evasion, and other financial crimes. The company delivers…
What they do: AI-driven financial-crime risk data and detection platform (screening, transaction monitoring, payments analysis)
Headquarters / founding: Founded in London in 2014
Customers / scale: Serves hundreds of financial institutions and enterprises (company-reported 500+ / 1000+ referenced)
Funding: Multiple venture rounds; reported total funding around USD 108.2M
Company Overview
Problem Domain
Anti-money laundering (AML), counter-financing of terrorism (CFT), sanctions screening, financial-crime detection and compliance.
Founded
2014
Industry
Software Development
Funding Track Record
Series A- 2016-10-13
8200000
Series A announced October 13, 2016
Series B- 2019-01-30
30000000
Series B announced January 30, 2019
- 2020-07-28
50000000
Announced July 28, 2020 (reported $50M round to expand AI platform and database)
Investor Signal
“Backed by institutional and venture investors including Balderton Capital, Index Ventures, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and Andreessen Horowitz”
Founders
What we do
Join the Team
Software Engineer [Java / Kotlin]
HybridLisbon, PT
Hybrid • Lisbon, PT
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 Senior Software Engineer, you will:
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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.
What’s in it for you?
Competitive salary aligned to your skills and experience;
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 of €235 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 of €2200 (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.
