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ComplyAdvantage

Cloud-native AML screening and monitoring

Software Engineer - Transaction Services, Platform Tribe

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/15/2026
€48k - €60k+ Equity
Mid
Bachelor's
Lisbon, Portugal
HybridTwo days in the office per week are required.
Software EngineeringBackend Engineering

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 3 years of experience writing production-grade Kotlin- or Java-based applications.
  • Awareness of a range of languages and paradigms, with the ability to share knowledge.
  • Experience with high-scale applications, such as APIs handling large request volumes or data-processing pipelines.
  • Experience with containerisation and cloud infrastructure.
  • Ownership of software from idea inception to production.
  • Experience working with tooling for testing, build, and deployment pipelines; setting it up is a plus.
  • Working understanding of logging, monitoring, and alerting tooling; setting it up is a plus.
  • Good communication and written skills, including experience producing technical documentation.
  • A BSc/BA degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline, or relevant years of experience in the required skills.
Responsibilities
  • Write new features that enable orchestration of complex workflows in the platform and large-scale data migrations.
  • Join a scrum team and contribute to technical and architectural decisions as systems evolve and scale; sometimes lead discussions and bring, solicit, and incorporate ideas.
  • Write tests and take ownership of systems that ensure code quality.
  • Work alongside machine learning engineers, data scientists, and other software engineers within the tribe.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience working in a multidisciplinary team with machine learning engineers, site reliability engineers, and product colleagues.
  • Experience working in an agile environment and with pair programming.

About the company

ComplyAdvantage provides AML data and technology for financial institutions and digital fintechs. Its products are API-enabled, cloud-native tools that integrate with existing workflows to automate customer screening and monitoring, adverse information and media screening, transaction screening, and transaction monitoring. By processing and correlating risk data in real time, the platform helps reduce manual work and lowers false positives in compliance checks. The company differentiates itself through a scalable, cloud-based suite that can be integrated via APIs and offered in tiered pricing based on transaction volume and service level, targeting both traditional banks and newer digital lenders. Its main goal is to help clients meet regulatory requirements and fight financial crime efficiently as they handle growing transaction flows.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

Series C

Total Funding

$108.2M

Headquarters

London, United Kingdom

Founded

2014

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What believers are saying

  • May 19, 2026 Mesh payment screening targets instant-payment banks and crypto rails.
  • March 26, 2026 Sumsub partnership embeds ComplyAdvantage into 4,000-customer verification workflows.
  • August 25, 2026 G2 gave ComplyAdvantage nine Leader badges across 32 categories.

What critics are saying

  • Moody's, LexisNexis, and LSEG bundle screening into larger enterprise contracts.
  • ComplyAdvantage's 2021 funding ceiling limits acquisition firepower against platform competitors.
  • A ComplyAdvantage sanctions miss triggers OFAC scrutiny, bank exits, and renewal collapse.

What makes ComplyAdvantage unique

  • Mesh unifies screening, monitoring, and risk data in one AI-native workflow.
  • Proprietary source ingestion updates sanctions in under a minute, beating day-lag rivals.
  • Chartis named ComplyAdvantage Category Leader in May 2026 for screening and adverse media.

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Unlimited Paid Time Off

Hybrid Work Options

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ComplyAdvantage
Aug 25th, 2026
ComplyAdvantage named leader across multiple G2 Grid(R) Fall 2026 reports.

ComplyAdvantage named leader across multiple G2 Grid(R) Fall 2026 reports. G2's latest report places ComplyAdvantage in 32 categories with nine Leader badges, two #1 rankings, and six Top 3 placements, including a first-time feature in the Financial Fraud Prevention category - its strongest showing yet. NEW YORK, August 25, 2026 - ComplyAdvantage, the leader in AI-driven financial crime risk data and detection, announced a series of major milestones in G2's Fall 2026 reports, extending its position as the top-rated anti-money laundering (AML) solution on the world's largest and most trusted software marketplace. "A comprehensive screening and customer risk rating, backed by a responsive team: I like the fact that ComplyAdvantage covers sanctions screening and adverse media well, and with Mesh it now also includes the additional element of customer risk rating. The team is supportive and responsive." - Verified G2 reviewer, 5/5 ComplyAdvantage's AML solution earned nine Leader badges this quarter - up three from Spring 2026 - and qualified for 32 reports in total, an increase of six from Summer 2026. The solution ranked #1 in two reports, maintained its #3 position in the Grid(R) Report for Anti-Money Laundering, achieved top-five status in 19 reports, and was included in six brand-new reports. Highlights include a first-ever appearance in the Asia Regional Grid(R) Report for Anti-Money Laundering and a debut across five reports in the Financial Fraud Prevention category, reflecting rapid growth in verified user adoption and satisfaction. "A Fraud & KYC/AML risk detection AI & SAAS platform designed to boost internal & regulatory compliance: ComplyAdvantage is an AI-driven platform for KYC/AML that helps institutions with transaction monitoring in regulated environments. Above all, it's SaaS-based, which makes it cost-effective. It gives organizations the operational efficiency, faster onboarding of customers and better risk assessment and last but not least, better compliance." - Verified G2 reviewer, 4.5/5 This recognition comes from the responses of real users for each of the G2 Grid(R) Report-related questions featured in the G2 review form, and validates ComplyAdvantage's mission to neutralize the risk of financial crimes and make a better, safer world by providing world-class, AI-driven risk intelligence. "Only about 10% of all vendors on G2 typically earn a spot in our quarterly Market Reports - making ComplyAdvantage's recognition a true accomplishment. This honor reflects the strong satisfaction of ComplyAdvantage's customers and the trust buyers place in G2's data-driven methodology." - Eric Gilpin, President, GTM at G2. For inclusion in the G2 Grid(R) Report, a product must have received 10 or more reviews and five responses for each of the relationship-related questions. ComplyAdvantage ranks #1 in two G2 Fall 2026 Anti-Money Laundering (AML) reports: * Europe Regional Grid(R) Report for Anti-Money Laundering (AML) * Mid-Market Grid(R) Report for Anti-Money Laundering (AML) About G2. G2 is the world's largest and most trusted software marketplace. More than 100 million people annually - including employees at all Fortune 500 companies - use G2 to make smarter software decisions based on authentic peer reviews. Thousands of software and services companies of all sizes partner with G2 to build their reputation and grow their business - including Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoom, and Adobe. To learn more about where you go for software, visit www.g2.com. About complyadvantage. Its mission is to empower every business to eliminate financial crime. By harnessing AI, a unified platform, and an extensive partner ecosystem, ComplyAdvantage 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 its unified platform and the world's most comprehensive financial crime risk intelligence. With full-stack agentic automation, ComplyAdvantage 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

ComplyAdvantage
Jul 2nd, 2026
ComplyAdvantage wins Celent's XCelent Award for Customer Base and Support in the 2026 adverse media screening report.

ComplyAdvantage wins Celent's XCelent Award for Customer Base and Support in the 2026 adverse media screening report. NEW YORK, July 2, 2026 - ComplyAdvantage, the leader in AI-driven financial crime risk data and detection, has won the XCelent Customer Base and Support Award in Celent's new report, Know Your Customer Systems: Adverse Media Screening - Technology Capabilities Matrix and 2026 XCelent Awards. ComplyAdvantage was also named a Functionality Standout in Celent's accompanying Technology Capabilities Matrix, which assesses adverse media screening solutions across the know your customer (KYC) technology market. Celent is a global research and advisory firm for the financial services industry. In its Technology Capabilities Matrix, it evaluates each solution before placing it into one of five categories based on Celent's overall market assessment. ComplyAdvantage's win in the customer base and support category underscores its industry positioning, the strength of its post-implementation support, and direct feedback from customer references. Adverse media screening empowers financial firms in identifying negative news tied to a customer or entity across global sources and languages. This is a core requirement of ongoing KYC due diligence, and an area where ComplyAdvantage has built its risk intelligence layer to compete directly. The company's proprietary data pipeline scans and classifies sanctions, politically exposed persons (PEPs), and adverse media content in near real time. ComplyAdvantage delivers 7X more comprehensive negative news coverage than competitors using multilingual machine learning models and natural language processing (NLP). The full report is available at celent.com. For additional information About ComplyAdvantage Its mission is to empower every business to eliminate financial crime. By harnessing AI, a unified platform, and an extensive partner ecosystem, ComplyAdvantage Ltd 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 its unified platform and the world's most comprehensive financial crime risk intelligence. With full-stack agentic automation, ComplyAdvantage Ltd 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.

ComplyAdvantage
May 29th, 2026
ComplyAdvantage named Category Leader in Name and Transaction Screening and Adverse Media Monitoring by Chartis RiskTech Quadrant(R) 2026.

ComplyAdvantage named Category Leader in Name and Transaction Screening and Adverse Media Monitoring by Chartis RiskTech Quadrant(R) 2026. NEW YORK, May 29, 2026 - ComplyAdvantage, the leader in AI-driven financial crime risk data and detection, has been named a Category Leader in two Chartis RiskTech Quadrants(R) for 2026: * Name and Transaction Screening Solutions. * Adverse Media Monitoring Solutions. Chartis Research is a specialist advisory firm focusing on risk, compliance, and financial technology for financial institutions, investment managers, and insurers. Its RiskTech Quadrant(R) assessments are among the most trusted independent evaluations in the financial crime technology space, measuring both completeness of offering and market potential. The dual Category Leader placement recognizes ComplyAdvantage's powerful capabilities and features across its proprietary risk intelligence, watchlist screening, and adverse media monitoring, delivering 7X more comprehensive negative news coverage than competitors utilizing multilingual machine learning models and natural language processing (NLP) technology. "Strong screening capabilities and good analytics provide proprietary data. Pretty good customer success and market knowledge, strong market support for their clients. Cover multiple business verticals and have a strong market presence." Sean O'Malley, Research Director, Chartis Research The recognition builds on ComplyAdvantage's growing analyst momentum, following its #25 global ranking in the Chartis FCC50 2026 and its Category Award for Predicate Crime Management earlier this year. About complyadvantage. Its mission is to empower every business to eliminate financial crime. By harnessing AI, a unified platform, and an extensive partner ecosystem, ComplyAdvantage Ltd 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 its unified platform and the world's most comprehensive financial crime risk intelligence. With full-stack agentic automation, ComplyAdvantage Ltd 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

ComplyAdvantage
May 27th, 2026
ComplyAdvantage named leader across multiple G2 Grid(R) Summer 2026 reports.

ComplyAdvantage named leader across multiple G2 Grid(R) Summer 2026 reports. ComplyAdvantage earns seven badges, including six Leader placements, qualifies for 26 reports, and ranks in the top three across six reports and indexes - its strongest G2 performance to date. NEW YORK, May 27, 2026 - ComplyAdvantage, a leader in AI-driven financial crime risk intelligence, announced a series of major milestones in G2's Summer 2026 reports, maintaining its position as the top-rated anti-money laundering (AML) solution on the world's largest and most trusted software marketplace. ComplyAdvantage's AML solution earned seven badges this quarter: six Leader placements - Leader in Anti-Money Laundering, Leader in Governance, Risk & Compliance, Regional Leader in Europe, Regional Leader in EMEA, Mid-Market Leader, and Momentum Leader for Anti-Money Laundering - plus a brand new Fastest Implementation badge. The solution qualified for 26 reports in total, an increase of five from the previous quarter, improved its ranking in 19 reports (up seven from Winter 2026), achieved top-three status in six reports, and was included in five brand-new reports, reflecting rapid growth in verified user adoption and satisfaction. This recognition comes from the responses of real users for each of the G2 Grid(R) Report-related questions featured in the G2 review form, and validates ComplyAdvantage's mission to neutralize the risk of financial crimes and make a better, safer world by providing world-class, AI-driven risk intelligence. "Earning a Leader position in a G2 Report is highly competitive and rooted in verified customer reviews. Congratulations to ComplyAdvantage for achieving this distinction. Buyers can be confident this ranking reflects the authentic experiences of real users." Godard Abel, Co-Founder and CEO, G2 For inclusion in the G2 Grid(R) Report, a product must have received 10 or more reviews and five responses for each of the relationship-related questions. ComplyAdvantage features in the Top 3 across six G2 Summer 2026 Anti-Money Laundering (AML) reports and indexes: * Grid(R) Report * Mid-Market Grid(R) Report * Europe Regional Grid(R) Report * EMEA Regional Grid(R) Report * Implementation Index * Mid-Market Implementation Index About G2. G2 is the world's largest and most trusted software marketplace. More than 100 million people annually - including employees at all Fortune 500 companies - use G2 to make smarter software decisions based on authentic peer reviews. Thousands of software and services companies of all sizes partner with G2 to build their reputation and grow their business - including Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoom, and Adobe. To learn more about where you go for software, visit www.g2.com. About complyadvantage. Its mission is to empower every business to eliminate financial crime. By harnessing AI, a unified platform, and an extensive partner ecosystem, ComplyAdvantage Ltd 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 its unified platform and the world's most comprehensive financial crime risk intelligence. With full-stack agentic automation, ComplyAdvantage Ltd 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

MartechView
May 26th, 2026
ComplyAdvantage speeds up payment screening for banks.

ComplyAdvantage speeds up payment screening for banks. May 26, 2026 May 25, 2026 As instant payments become the norm, financial institutions face a sharper version of an old problem: how to move money fast without moving it recklessly. ComplyAdvantage, a financial crime compliance software company, has launched an upgraded payment screening product built on its AI-native Mesh platform, promising financial institutions faster sanctions checks and fewer false positives across a broader range of payment types. The move completes the migration of the company's existing payment screening capability into Mesh, a unified compliance platform it introduced last year. The integration means that payment screening now sits alongside transaction monitoring and customer risk scoring in a single system, giving compliance analysts a complete view of a customer's history when reviewing a flagged transaction - rather than having to switch between separate tools. The practical problem the product is designed to solve is a familiar tension in financial services: instant payment networks require near-real-time decisions, but sanctions lists change constantly and the consequences of missing a hit are severe. ComplyAdvantage says its system screens transactions across bank, card, remittance and crypto rails at low latency, with sanctions data updated in minutes rather than hours because the company controls its data pipeline from source to alert. Two features are positioned as the most operationally significant. The first is a no-code interface that allows compliance teams to adjust match sensitivity and manage internal watchlists without involving engineering staff - a meaningful change for institutions that currently queue regulatory updates behind development backlogs. The second is what the company calls intelligent muting, a system that identifies and suppresses repeated false positives so analysts can concentrate on genuine threats rather than relitigating the same erroneous matches. Alert fatigue is a well-documented problem in financial crime compliance. Analysts at large institutions can review thousands of flagged transactions daily, the vast majority of which turn out to be legitimate. Systems that reduce that noise without increasing the risk of missing real sanctions violations are in strong demand, particularly as regulators at bodies including the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control, the United Kingdom's HM Treasury and Singapore's Monetary Authority have tightened enforcement expectations. "By upgrading our payment screening capability to reside natively within this environment, we are giving our customers a strategic advantage," said Mark Watson, ComplyAdvantage's chief product and technology officer. "They can now intercept risk at industry-leading speeds with a system that reduces the operational friction and alert fatigue that traditionally hinder business growth." ComplyAdvantage says more than 3,000 enterprises across 75 countries use its platform.