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Algos Tech Lead (Transaction Monitoring)

Solidus Labs

Skills

Required

  • financial ecosystem
  • financial crime / compliance
  • data systems
  • fintech / payments / banking / crypto
  • streaming
  • Kafka
  • analytical stores
  • ClickHouse
  • Snowflake
  • distributed batch processing
  • backend engineering
  • architecture decisions
  • detailed implementation design
  • AI coding
  • coding

Preferred

  • On-chain/blockchain data
  • chain indexing
  • wallet clustering
  • DeFi protocol
  • offchain
  • system architecture
  • wallet-level
  • protocol-level monitoring
  • data models

Join our Algorithms team as a Tech Lead for Transaction Monitoring (TM). You will own the TM detection algorithms and lead the global engineering team. Your responsibilities will include implementing our offchain TM detection suite, building on-chain TM, producing and defending system architecture and design, and partnering with Global Product on the on-chain roadmap. You should have strong domain knowledge of the financial ecosystem, experience with high-throughput data systems, and excellent communication skills.

Exposure to trade surveillance or market abuse detection

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor the existing Transaction Monitoring (TM) global engineering team, ensuring sprint delivery, code quality, and on-call health.
  • Own the implementation of the offchain TM detection suite and drive the build-out of on-chain TM, including wallet-level and protocol-level monitoring.
  • Produce and defend both high-level and low-level design, including system architecture, data models, detection logic, and threshold/tuning frameworks.
  • Genuinely hands-on: Strong data structures and algorithms fundamentals, a track record of high-performance concurrent code, and still reviewing PRs and debugging production

Requirements

  • Strong domain knowledge of the financial ecosystem - fintech, payments, banking or crypto - and a solid understanding of financial crime or compliance concepts
  • 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
  • 8+ years backend engineering experience, including 2+ years leading or tech-leading a team
  • Proven design ownership at both levels - architecture decisions and detailed implementation design
  • Experience with AI coding and using coding harnesses

Preferred

  • On-chain/blockchain data experience - chain indexing, wallet clustering, DeFi protocol mechanics
  • Experience at a RegTech vendor or in a bank/exchange compliance technology function