Algos Tech Lead

Who you are

• 8+ years backend engineering experience, including 2+ years leading or tech-leading a team
• Strong domain knowledge of the financial ecosystem - fintech, payments, banking or crypto - and a solid understanding of financial crime or compliance concepts
• Genuinely hands-on: Strong data structures and algorithms fundamentals, a track record of high-performance concurrent code, and still reviewing PRs and debugging production
• Proven design ownership at both levels - architecture decisions and detailed implementation design
• Experience with high-throughput, low latency data systems: streaming (Kafka or similar), analytical stores (ClickHouse, Snowflake, or similar),and distributed batch processing
• Clear written and verbal communication with non-engineering stakeholders
• Experience with AI coding and using coding harnesses
• On-chain/blockchain data experience - chain indexing, wallet clustering, DeFi protocol mechanics
• Exposure to trade surveillance or market abuse detection
• Experience at a RegTech vendor or in a bank/exchange compliance technology function

What the job involves

• We're hiring a Tech Lead to join our Algorithms team and own the Transaction Monitoring (TM) detection algorithms, product engineering effort end to end
• Lead, mentor, and grow the existing TM global engineering team - sprint delivery, code quality, on-call health
• Own implementation of our offchain TM detection suite
• Drive the build-out of on-chain TM - wallet-level and protocol-level monitoring, and the data pipelines behind it
• Produce and defend both high-level and low-level design: system architecture, data models, detection logic, and threshold/tuning frameworks
• Partner with Global Product on the on-chain roadmap, translating regulatory and customer requirements into deliverable engineering plans
• Merging various patterns to re-use: You'll help shape that architecture and, over time, how engineering resources are shared across TM and TS
• Work with compliance, customer success, and solutions teams on alert quality, false-positive reduction, and client tuning requests