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StarCompliance

Automates regulatory compliance for financial institutions

Platform Quality Engineer

Full-Time
No salary listed
Mid
Bachelor's
Remote in UK
Remote
QA & TestingTest Automation Engineering

About the job

Requirements
  • Demonstrable experience in platform- or enterprise-scale SaaS application quality assurance, with a focus on validating integration, non-functional characteristics, and release readiness across distributed systems.
  • Strong coding skills in one or more of C#, TypeScript, or Python, with the ability to write clean, maintainable, production-quality code.
  • Demonstrated experience designing and maintaining automated tests at the integration and API layers for distributed, cloud-native systems.
  • Solid understanding of cloud-native architectures and how to test them, including messaging, asynchronous processing, retries, ordering, and failure handling
  • Hands-on experience testing event-driven systems using cloud messaging or integration technologies (e.g. Azure Service Bus, Kafka, SNS/SQS, or similar).
  • Strong hands-on experience with performance testing tools and approaches (e.g. k6, JMeter, Gatling, or similar).
  • Experience designing realistic performance test scenarios and generating representative test data, including load, concurrency, and message-driven workloads.
  • Practical experience integrating functional and performance testing into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps preferred).
  • Experience diagnosing complex system failures using logs, telemetry, and test data.
  • Hands-on experience using AI-assisted engineering tools to improve productivity, test quality, or failure analysis.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to reason about system behavior and failure modes in distributed environment.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Relevant certifications in cloud platforms (Azure preferred), performance testing, or quality engineering are beneficial but not required.
Responsibilities
  • Design, implement, and maintain automated tests primarily at the integration and API layers to validate behaviour across distributed services.
  • Develop tests that validate asynchronous and event-driven workflows, including messaging, retries, ordering, and failure scenarios (e.g. Azure Service Bus–based integrations).
  • Contribute production-quality code to shared automation frameworks and quality tooling used across the enterprise platform.
  • Design and execute performance and scalability tests for the enterprise SaaS platform
  • Build and maintain performance test data, scenarios, and workloads that reflect real-world usage patterns, including message throughput and concurrency.
  • Integrate automated functional and performance tests into CI/CD pipelines, contributing to reliable, high-signal quality gates.
  • Support validation activities within the Staging environment as the primary platform integration and quality assurance layer
  • Analyze functional, integration, and performance test results to identify systemic platform risks and improvement opportunities.
  • Partner with Product Owners to understand upcoming platform changes and integrations, preparing targeted integration and performance tests in advance.
  • Collaborate with architecture, platform, and engineering teams to improve system testability, reliability, and observability.
  • Apply AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate test creation, improve coverage, analyse failures, and reduce test flakiness.
  • Adhere to and contribute to quality standards, patterns, and engineering practices defined by the centralised Platform Quality Engineering function

About the company

StarCompliance provides compliance software for financial institutions and corporations to help them meet regulatory requirements. Its core platform automates and simplifies compliance tasks across areas such as insider trading, market abuse, and conflict of interest, enabling firms to monitor and manage risks through automated workflows, alerts, and reporting. The product works on a subscription model with tiered service levels, regular updates, and access to customer support, and it also offers consulting services to help implement and optimize compliance programs. The company differentiates itself by delivering an end-to-end, software-plus-services solution tailored to the financial services sector, combining ongoing platform updates with advisory support rather than relying on a single product. Its goal is to help clients stay compliant with evolving regulations, minimize legal and reputational risks, and maintain predictable, recurring revenue through subscriptions.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Growth Equity (Venture Capital)

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Rockville, Maryland

Founded

1999

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What believers are saying

  • July 2026 benchmark study found 67% of firms piloting AI, boosting StarAssist demand.
  • July 2026 leadership hires added Bill Chatterton and Alan Knepfer to sharpen execution.
  • April 2026 launches added FINRA automation, Concur integration, and political-donations monitoring.

What critics are saying

  • AI compliance startups can commoditize explainable workflows faster than StarCompliance's legacy suite.
  • Kalshi partnership ties StarCompliance to prediction markets, where regulation changes quickly in 2026.
  • A 254-employee private company faces existential risk if enterprise financial institutions switch platforms.

What makes StarCompliance unique

  • StarCompliance's 2026 STAR Platform spans employee compliance, surveillance, and case management globally.
  • June 2026 Kalshi partnership covers prediction markets with on-chain and off-chain monitoring.
  • May 2026 StarAssist embeds explainable AI directly into compliance workflows, not bolt-on plugins.

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Benefits

  • Hybrid Work Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

6 month growth

9%

1 year growth

8%

2 year growth

8%
PR Newswire
Oct 27th, 2026
StarCompliance launches AI agent in Analytics for instant compliance insights

StarCompliance has launched an AI-enabled agent in its Analytics product that answers questions in natural language, removing the need for manual analysis. The company, based in Rockville, Maryland, announced the launch on October 27, 2026. The tool lets compliance teams explore and visualise data, spot emerging risks, and make decisions faster. "We're helping compliance teams uncover deeper insights, identify emerging risks, and make more informed decisions with greater speed and efficiency," said Kelvin Dickenson, chief product officer. StarCompliance will host a webinar on Analytics and AI on October 28 at 11:00 ET. It will show how to build custom dashboards without IT staff, data scientists, or external business intelligence tools. The company has served financial services firms for over 25 years, with users in 120 countries.

Marlin Equity Partners
Sep 20th, 2026
Marlin signs definitive agreement to complete growth equity investment in StarCompliance | News | Marlin Equity Partners

LOS ANGELES, December 17, 2020 – Marlin Equity Partners (“Marlin”) is pleased to announce that it has signed a definitive agreement to complete a majority-control, growth investment in StarCompliance (“Star”), a leading provider of employee compliance and regulatory technology solutions to the financial services industry. The transaction enables Star to further expand its leadership position within the global compliance market by accelerating product innovation and supporting the company’s ongoing international expansion. Luminate Capital Partners (“Luminate”), the company’s previous majority shareholder, will retain a minority stake. The completion of the transaction is subject to applicable regulatory clearances and other customary closing conditions.

PR Newswire
Jul 8th, 2026
StarCompliance adds CFO and CRO as demand surges for AI-powered compliance and digital asset oversight

StarCompliance has appointed Bill Chatterton as chief financial officer and Alan Knepfer as chief revenue officer, whilst promoting Lauren St. Amand to chief marketing officer and David Strauss to general counsel. The leadership changes support the company's growth driven by demand for employee compliance, digital asset oversight, and AI-enabled solutions. Chatterton brings over 20 years of experience in private equity-backed software companies, previously serving as CFO at Get Well. Knepfer, with more than 25 years in financial services and compliance markets, will oversee global revenue strategy. He previously held the position of chief revenue officer at Salus GRC and sales leadership roles at Nasdaq. St. Amand joined StarCompliance in 2022, whilst Strauss has been with the firm for eight years.

FinTech Global
Jul 1st, 2026
StarCompliance unveils checklist for bank compliance teams.

StarCompliance unveils checklist for bank compliance teams. July 1, 2026 Bank compliance teams are being tested by a regulatory environment that is shifting faster than many can keep pace with. Artificial intelligence governance, operational resilience, digital assets, sanctions regimes and tightening accountability requirements are converging at once, and firms are under mounting pressure to show stronger oversight, quicker responses and more effective risk management than in previous cycles. Regulators are no longer satisfied with compliance functions that simply tick boxes. Increasingly, they expect these teams to act as strategic partners to the wider business, underpinned by connected data systems, robust governance frameworks and outcomes that can be clearly demonstrated rather than merely asserted. To help compliance leaders gauge how prepared their organisations actually are, RegTech provider StarCompliance has developed the Global Bank Compliance Checklist. The resource is designed as a practical tool that allows banks to pinpoint gaps in their existing frameworks, tighten controls and get ahead of regulatory expectations that continue to evolve. The checklist covers a broad sweep of areas that compliance leaders are currently grappling with. It allows firms to assess governance and accountability frameworks across the organisation, and to evaluate how well they are overseeing AI tools, compliance technology and data management. It also provides a structure for reviewing monitoring, surveillance and risk management practices, while helping teams identify emerging risks tied to digital assets, ESG and operational resilience. Beyond risk identification, the checklist is also aimed at strengthening regulatory reporting, documentation and audit preparedness, giving compliance functions a clearer route to proving their programmes are effective rather than simply compliant on paper. For banks under pressure to modernise their compliance infrastructure while satisfying an expanding list of regulatory demands, the checklist offers a structured starting point. StarCompliance is positioning the download as a way for institutions to take a more deliberate approach to strengthening regulatory readiness across their compliance programmes, rather than reacting piecemeal to each new requirement as it emerges. Enjoying the stories? Investors. The following investor(s) were tagged in this article.

PR Newswire
Jun 17th, 2026
StarCompliance and Kalshi launch first enterprise-grade global prediction market compliance solution for financial firms

StarCompliance has partnered with Kalshi to launch the financial industry's first enterprise-grade compliance solution for monitoring employee participation across prediction markets. The system extends surveillance to both off-chain and on-chain prediction market activity within a centralised platform. The solution addresses growing risks as employees can potentially profit from material non-public information through prediction markets, an area traditional compliance programmes don't adequately cover. Features include automated surveillance, configurable alerts, centralised case management and monitoring of trading patterns and work-hour activity. Founded in 2018, Kalshi is the world's largest prediction market. StarCompliance, operating for over 25 years, serves financial services firms across 120 countries. The partnership aims to provide oversight as prediction market regulations and institutional adoption evolve.