Requirements

• Experience leading multi-level engineering organisations through growth and change, with a track record of developing leaders.
• Proven experience transforming critical platforms without disrupting business operations, including multi-year re-architecture or system consolidation.
• Background building and operating mission-critical decisioning or rules platforms at scale, serving multiple segments, products, or markets.
• Experience in regulated environments such as financial services or payments, with focus on compliance, auditability, and risk.
• Deep technical understanding of cloud-native, distributed, and data-heavy systems, including safe production use of ML models.
• Exceptional collaboration skills with senior cross-functional stakeholders, especially in Risk, Compliance, Financial Crime, and Legal.
• Humility, low ego, and alignment with company mission, values, and operating principles.

Nice to Haves

• Domain knowledge in KYB, AML, financial crime, underwriting, fraud, or merchant risk.
• Experience with self-serve or high-volume onboarding, platforms, and sub-merchants.

What You'll Be Doing

• Setting technical vision and strategy for Risk, Verification & Compliance, balancing shared foundations and segment-specific configurations.
• Building an automated decisioning platform that triages decisions to reduce manual workload and costs.
• Implementing dynamic risk management across the customer lifecycle, evolving from simple rules to machine learning.
• Making decisions explainable to customers, partners, and internal analysts.
• Enabling Risk and Compliance teams to adjust acceptance criteria and policies via configurable controls.
• Scaling financial crime detection and monitoring systems to handle diverse customer bases and product channels.
• Leading design and delivery of verification, screening, underwriting, and monitoring systems that are accurate, auditable, and highly available.
• Representing Engineering in regulatory, audit, scheme, and partner discussions.
• Managing and developing a high-performing team of engineers and managers, fostering talent and best practices.

Perks and Benefits

• Work in a fast-paced environment with meaningful challenges and strong impact recognition.
• Hybrid working model offering flexibility with three days per week in the office.
• Supportive team culture where ambition meets opportunity.
• Access to resources and accommodations to ensure an accessible and comfortable work environment.