Lead, Transaction Monitoring

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Europe.

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and develop the current TM global engineering team.

• Take responsibility for sprint delivery, code quality, and on-call health.

• Manage the implementation of the offchain transaction monitoring detection suite.

• Spearhead the development of on-chain transaction monitoring, encompassing wallet-level and protocol-level monitoring.

• Construct and maintain the data pipelines that support on-chain transaction monitoring.

• Create and justify high-level and low-level designs that address system architecture, data models, detection logic, and threshold/tuning frameworks.

• Collaborate with Global Product on the on-chain roadmap.

• Convert regulatory and customer requirements into actionable engineering plans.

• Design reusable architecture and promote engineering resource sharing across transaction monitoring and trade surveillance.

• Collaborate with compliance, customer success, and solutions teams to enhance alert quality, minimize false positives, and address client tuning requests.

⛳️ Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in backend engineering.

• 2+ years of experience in a leadership or technical lead role.

• Strong knowledge of the financial ecosystem, including fintech, payments, banking, or cryptocurrency.

• Solid grasp of financial crime or compliance concepts.

• Strong foundation in data structures and algorithms.

• Proven track record in producing high-performance concurrent code.

• Current hands-on experience in reviewing pull requests and debugging production issues.

• Demonstrated design ownership at both architecture and detailed implementation levels.

• Experience with high-throughput, low-latency data systems.

• Familiarity with streaming technologies such as Kafka or similar.

• Experience with analytical databases like ClickHouse, Snowflake, or similar.

• Experience in distributed batch processing.

• Ability to communicate clearly, both in writing and verbally, with non-engineering stakeholders.

• Experience with AI coding and utilizing coding harnesses.

• Knowledge of on-chain/blockchain data, including chain indexing, wallet clustering, and DeFi protocol mechanics.

• Exposure to trade surveillance or market abuse detection.

• Experience at a RegTech vendor or within a bank/exchange compliance technology function.

🏝️ Benefits

• You'll oversee an entire product line, not just a component.

• A dedicated team is already in place.

• There is a clear regulatory impetus behind the work.

• A roadmap that progresses into the convergence of on-chain and market surveillance.