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Spendesk
Spendesk

Software Engineer - KYC & AML

Join Spendesk, a regulated Financial Services Institution, as a Software Engineer in the KYC & AML team. You will work on the compliance infrastructure, building scalable and secure systems for customer due diligence, risk assessment, transaction monitoring, and regulatory reporting. This role offers broad exposure to technical design, development, compliance operations, regulatory monitoring, and process improvements.

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Job summary
Permanent contract
London
A few days at home
Salary: Not specified
Experience: > 3 years
Skills & expertise
Collaboration and teamwork
PostgreSQL
Jest
SQL
Cypress
+10
Key missions

Design, develop, and maintain core components of Spendesk's KYC & AML infrastructure, including customer screening systems and compliance data APIs.

Implement secure and efficient APIs for KYC workflows, AML monitoring processes, and regulatory reporting flows.

Collaborate with internal teams (Compliance, Operations, Legal, Customer Support) to investigate compliance matters and help improve regulatory processes.

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Job description

We are looking for a talented Software Engineer to join our KYC & AML team (Know Your Customer & Anti-Money Laundering), a key part of the Payments Group at Spendesk. As part of this highly skilled and collaborative team, you will work on the mission critical end-to-end compliance infrastructure that Spendesk requires for its customers — our regulatory compliance and risk management platform. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of our financial infrastructure, building scalable, secure, and reliable systems to manage customer due diligence, risk assessment, transaction monitoring, and regulatory reporting.

The Payments Group oversees all money movement across Spendesk, including card issuance, wire transfers, balance management, and transaction processing. As Spendesk operates as a regulated Financial Services Institution, this team plays a vital role in ensuring compliance, security, and operational reliability.

In the KYC & AML team, you will collaborate closely with Compliance teams, Risk & Operations, regulatory bodies, and other internal stakeholders to ensure we provide the best-in-class compliance experience to our internal teams and maintain regulatory standards — while maintaining the highest standards of system reliability and scalability.

This role offers broad exposure, from technical design and development to compliance operations, regulatory monitoring, and process improvements, making it ideal for someone who enjoys working across the full software development lifecycle in a highly regulated environment. 

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain core components of Spendesk's KYC & AML infrastructure, including customer screening systems, integrating with third- party compliance tools for entity verification and monitoring, and providing compliance data via secure APIs
  • Implement secure and efficient APIs for KYC workflows, AML monitoring processes, and regulatory reporting flows
  • Build and enhance internal tools to support compliance operations, risk assessment, and suspicious activity detection
  • Work closely with the Product Manager to clarify requirements and contribute to technical design discussions around compliance workflows
  • Write well-documented, maintainable, and tested code to ensure the platform is resilient and easy to evolve
  • Contribute to monitoring and alerting systems to ensure regulatory compliance reliability and proactively address compliance issues
  • Participate in code reviews and knowledge sharing within the team to improve our engineering practices
  • Collaborate with internal teams (Compliance, Operations, Legal, Customer Support) to investigate compliance matters and help improve regulatory processes 

    • What we're looking for

  • 3+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, ideally in backend development.
  • Experience with Node.js and TypeScript in production environments.
  • Experience building and maintaining REST APIs in a high-availability environment.
  • An understanding or interest in learning about event-driven architecture. Proficient in SQL and relational database design (PostgreSQL preferred).
  • Experience writing comprehensive tests and working with modern CI/CD pipelines.
  • Comfortable collaborating across engineering, product, compliance, and operations teams.
  • Experience implementing and deploying applications on one or more cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure).
  • Fluent in English (spoken and written) — itʼs our business language.

    • Nice to have

  • Knowledge with React and frontend development
  • Understanding or experience working in regulated financial environments or with payment service providers.
  • Previous work with AWS services, i.e. SQS, Lambda, Step Functions, CodePipeline...
  • Experienced working with Kubernetes, Terraform or Kafka Knowledge about systems observability, ideally working with Datadog
  • Strong system design skills, with the ability to design for scalability, fault tolerance, and high performance.
  • A track record of leading technical projects or mentoring other engineers. 

    • Our tech stack

  • Backend: Node.js (TypeScript)
  • Frontend: React/Redux
  • Datastores: PostgreSQL, Redis
  • Infrastructure: Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS (Lambdas, Step Functions)
  • Messaging and Queueing: SQS, Kafka, AWS EventBridge
  • CI/CD: AWS CodePipeline and GitHub Actions
  • Testing: Node test runner, Jest, Cypress 

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