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Software Engineer
ComplyAdvantageLisbon, PortugalPosted 19 May 2026
Job Description
What you will be doing
We are looking for driven, talented Software Engineers to help us build our SaaS-based anti-money laundering solutions, which help organizations fight financial crime.
We are building cutting-edge solutions that help prevent money flowing to and from bad actors to create a safer world. Your work will enable the platform that all our products are built on. We own these areas across the ComplyAdvantage “Mesh” platform:
API Gateway and Authentication
User and Access Management
Roles and Permissions framework
Public API docs tooling and best practices
As a Software Engineer, you will:
Work alongside other software engineers within the platform tribe
Help us deliver new features and maintain our platform as we apply new technologies and scale our systems
Learn quickly and adopt the technologies we use to develop and deploy code to Kubernetes
Contribute to sprint planning and demo the features you’ve worked on to stakeholders
Be responsible for the quality of your code, write tests, and take ownership of systems that ensure code quality
Adopt best practices (and suggest improvements to them), to get code from initial requirements to deployed services in production
Our Tech Stack
Our technology stack is designed to run on public cloud architectures, notably AWS and GCP
Development is organised around 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 Yugabyte
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 Grafana Cloud 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 have:
Experience in Java/Kotlin , writing production-grade applications
At least 2 years of formal experience,or a passion for software with many years of experience that predates your formal career
Experience writing tests and understanding of their importance
Experience working in an agile environment and pair programming
Experience working on the cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) and/or using containerized infrastructure (Kubernetes/Docker); the infrastructure itself will be provided by an SRE team
Nice to haves:
Experience working in a multi-disciplinary team (ML Engineers, SREs, Product)
Worked in an agile environment and have experience in pair programming
Education:
BSc/BA degree in computer science, engineering or related discipline OR relevant years of experience with the required skills.
What’s in it for you?
Equity as we want you to have a part of what we are building
Private medical insurance designed to keep you ensuring peace of mind while you excel in your career
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 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 (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. Wi ... (truncated, view full listing at source)
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