Full-Time

Lead – Software Development

Java

Posted on 10/31/2025

Global Relay

Global Relay

1,001-5,000 employees

Cloud-based messaging archiving and compliance platform

No salary listed

London, UK

In Person

Category
Software Engineering (1)
Requirements
  • An BSc in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent relevant experience
  • 8 years of development experience, shipping enterprise grade software, using multiple frameworks and languages with a particular focus on Java
  • 2+ years of experience as a hands-on development team manager
  • Demonstrated track record leading geographically dispersed teams
  • Demonstrated track record of being a change agent, leaving every team and process better than you found it
  • Strong communication and consensus building skills
  • Skills in language, framework, and toolset agnostic
  • Prior exposure to external audits
  • Experience with full stack SaaS development
  • Experience with advanced web applications
  • Experience with API development in service and resource-oriented architectures
  • Experience with large complex databases and data quality and lifecycle issues
  • Experience with mobile applications a plus
Responsibilities
  • Strong Java skills
  • Lead a team of developers who like to ship product and welcome challenging and complex engineering problems in an Agile environment
  • Instantiate a culture of knowledge sharing and avoid knowledge hoarding
  • Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of your team members
  • Provide continuous feedback, address underperformance, and recognize the individual strengths and contributions of your team members
  • Instil a spirit of continuous improvement in the team’s code, architecture, and processes
  • Work with product managers to ensure the teams are delivering an accurate product build and work with project managers to ensure the schedules and controls for the development teams are met
  • Work with appropriate stakeholder to ensure production issues are resolved quickly
  • Own your team's deliverables and product quality. Ensure we continue to ship scalable, highly-available, and world class products to our customers
  • Help your team build relationships across functions with QA, Operations, Support and other teams to ensure Global Relay’s continuing success
  • Be a hands-on development team manager who will spend up to 50% of their time in design reviews, sprint planning and other Agile artefacts. Some active coding is a requirement for this role.
  • Appreciate and advocate for information security and secure coding practices

Global Relay provides cloud-based messaging archiving and information governance solutions for regulatory compliance and data management. It archives emails, instant messages, social media, and other communications, using a Data in Place approach with advanced search, analytics, visualizations, and user activity monitoring to support fast eDiscovery. The platform differentiates itself with a global customer base, high automation, rapid search speeds, and an integrated suite of archiving, analytics, and governance tools. Its goal is to help organizations stay compliant, reduce data-management costs, and turn archived communications into actionable information for decision-making.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

1999

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • AI surveillance platform adoption accelerates as FINRA and SEC tighten off-channel communication oversight.
  • Generative AI integrations with OpenAI and enterprise tools expand TAM beyond traditional archiving.
  • Vendor consolidation drives financial services clients toward unified archiving, surveillance, and eDiscovery platforms.

What critics are saying

  • Microsoft Teams and Slack native compliance features erode core email and IM archiving TAM.
  • LLM-based false positives expose Global Relay to wrongful termination liability and regulatory fines.
  • OpenAI builds native ChatGPT compliance archiving, commoditizing Global Relay's AI differentiation within 24 months.

What makes Global Relay unique

  • Agentic AI with contextual conversation understanding reduces false positives in financial surveillance.
  • Open Connector API integrates encrypted file transfers, ChatGPT Enterprise, and Slack compliance natively.
  • Serves 22 of top 25 banks with 20+ years cloud archiving market leadership.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Paid Vacation

Parental Leave

401(k) Company Match

Flexible Work Hours

Hybrid Work Options

Company News

Business Wire
May 13th, 2025
Global Relay to Debut Enhanced AI Surveillance Solution at FINRA Annual Conference 2025

Global Relay to debut enhanced AI surveillance solution at FINRA Annual Conference 2025.

Latest Nigerian News
Jan 17th, 2025
AI Tools Crack Down on Wall Street Trader Code Speak

Companies like Behavox and Global Relay are developing AI tools that can interpret trader slang, emoji-laden messages and even coded language that traditional detection systems might miss, WSJ reports.

Techstory
Jul 22nd, 2024
Global Relay Announces Integration with OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise Compliance API to Revolutionize Financial Compliance

Global Relay announces integration with OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise Compliance API to revolutionize financial compliance.

FF News
Jul 22nd, 2024
Global Relay Announces Integration With Openai'S Chatgpt Enterprise Compliance Api

Global Relay, the leading provider of communications compliance solutions for regulated industries, announces its integration between OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise Compliance API and Global Relay’s financial compliance platform. The new compliance capabilities launched by OpenAI in conjunction with Global Relay’s platform will help customers use OpenAI’s Enterprise Compliance API to meet industry standards for business communications recordkeeping, data archiving, and surveillance.OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise Compliance application programming interfaces (API) allows ChatGPT Enterprise workspace administrators to manage their data to help ensure privacy and compliance with regulatory standards. Companies in all sectors, including Global Relay’s client roster of 20,000 financial institutions worldwide, will be able to use the Global Relay Connector for ChatGPT Enterprise solution to help compliantly capture and archive prompts, conversations, and file attachments between individual users and ChatGPT Enterprise, and securely store all this data in Global Relay Archive.“We are delighted to begin an impactful launch integration with a company whose technology is transforming virtually every industry and business function before our eyes, including financial compliance,” commented Sahar Kayhani, Chief Product Officer at Global Relay. “Generative AI, such as ChatGPT, represents a significant advancement in how businesses interact with customers and manage internal communications. This significant shift in business operations also ushers in the need for regulatory compliance solutions that meet the evolving needs of the industry.”Global Relay’s integration with OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise Compliance API will enable enterprise compliance and risk leaders to capture, archive, and access ChatGPT Enterprise data alongside Global Relay’s existing monitoring of instant messaging tools, and social media, voice, files, and business collaboration tools — all within a single platform.Kayhani added, “In light of regulators’ intensified focus on off-channel communications, many customers were asking us for the capability to capture ChatGPT Enterprise data. Our connector will enable organizations to harness the full potential of generative AI, with peace of mind knowing that the audit trail of communications is readily available to disclose to regulatory agencies, while maintaining the highest standards of data integrity, completeness, and security

Global Relay
Aug 3rd, 2023
Global Relay recognized in the gartner® Hype cycle™ for Data security, and Hype cycle™ for Storage and Data Protection technologies, 2023

Global Relay has been recognized as a Sample Vendor for Digital Communication Governance in 2 Gartner Hype Cycle Reports, 2023.

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