{"id":104968,"url":"https://alion.io/job/malt-senior-engineering-manager-compliance","title":"Senior Engineering Manager - Compliance","company":{"id":5526,"name":"Malt","domain":"malt.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/malt","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":true,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Lever","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":77,"open_postings":24,"ghost_share":0.292,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0.042,"time_to_fill_p50_days":89,"computed_at":"2026-10-21T05:46:15Z"}},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":86000,"max_usd":189000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":66},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Kotlin","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2022-10-20T15:38:39Z","employer_posted_date":"2022-10-20","last_verified_at":"2026-10-21T18:37:23Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1462,"trust":{"level":"ghost","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale","company_stale"],"days_open":1461},"description":"Explore your future career\nWe are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Compliance strategy for our product engineering team. In this role, you will be the leader overseeing the delivery, performance, and people management for our Compliance squads, composed of 8-15 engineers. You are in charge of the performance, productivity, and innovation within this scope, ensuring that how clients and freelancers connect on Malt remains secure and trustworthy.\nToday, our compliance ecosystem relies on robust KYC flows; tomorrow, we aim for a full AI-driven compliance experience. You play a crucial role in defining and implementing our technical strategy, driving project timelines, and fostering a high-performing and collaborative engineering environment. This is a hands-on leadership role where you are shaping the safety and integrity of the product experience that hundreds of thousands of freelancers rely on.\nKey responsibilities\nLead and inspire a high-performing team\nYou will directly manage 2-3 cross-functional squads (8 to 15 engineers), ensuring a high-trust environment where talent thrives. This is a direct leadership role not a manager-of-managers position focused on setting clear direction, establishing strong team rituals, and maintaining high morale and engagement.\n\nCo-build product and technical strategy\nPartner closely with the Product Director and Design Lead to co-create the long-term vision for the Compliance domain. You will translate complex regulatory requirements into a seamless user experience, ensuring that security measures never compromise platform usability. Together, you will balance technical debt, innovative features, and high-stakes roadmap priorities to deliver maximum value to our users.\n\nRaise the bar on delivery and engineering excellence\nOwn the delivery lifecycle by setting and tracking KPIs for velocity and quality. You’ll master the art of the trade-off, strategically balancing rapid delivery with long-term architectural health. By aligning team output with company strategy, you ensure every engineering effort drives maximum impact and scale.\n\nKnowledge multiplier\nYou will also contribute to the Engineering Manager Guild to scale these best practices and strategic frameworks across the entire organization\n\nOwn our compliance ecosystem\nYou’ll be the primary tech point of contact for our external partners, from PSPs to legal data providers. You’ll ensure smooth integration, operational reliability, and long-term scalability in this core part of Malt’s product.\n\nAbout you\nHands-on Manager: You maintain your “technical mentorship” through code reviews and architecture discussions. You likely have a strong backend foundation (ideally in java/Kotlin) and a passion for engineering excellence.\n\nSystems Thinker: You thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments and excel at managing technical migrations or structural shifts without losing focus on the mission.\n\nCompliance Domain experience: You have a deep background in scaling compliance or fintech systems. You understand the unique constraints of high-security environments and how to navigate them without slowing down.\n\nStrategic Risk Manager: You are comfortable at the intersection of tech and regulation. You know how to make high-impact decisions that protect the business while enabling product growth\n\nImpactful Communicator: Fluent in English (French is a bonus), you can distill complex technical or AI concepts into clear, actionable insights for stakeholders at any level.\n\nTechnical watch: You keep an eye on emerging tech, especially around AI. You don’t need to be an expert, but you’re eager to explore how it can help your team deliver more value, faster.\n\nHow to join the mission?\nFirst call with Alex, our Talent Acquisition Business Partner, to better understand your background, aspirations, and answer any questions you may have. (45 minutes)\n\nInterview with your future manager, Jean (VP engineering), to delve into your experience and the specifics of the role. (60 minutes)\n\nProduct case and debrief with PM, Design & EM to explore how you collaborate with stakeholders, manage conflicts, delivery, and innovation\n\nTechnical case and debrief with staff engineers to validate your mastery of technical and architectural subjects\n\nFinal interview with Claire (CTO) to discuss Malt’s long-term vision (interview at the Paris office)","description_format":"text","description_chars":4391,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":false},{"language":"French","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Freelance & Talent Marketplaces"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2022-10-20T15:38:39Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":6,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.226,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":1461,"expected_fill_days":89,"reasons":["conf:1","ghost","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-21T05:46:15Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/malt-senior-engineering-manager-compliance","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/malt-senior-engineering-manager-compliance.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-21T19:21:05Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":27378,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":5526},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=5526"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fmalt-senior-engineering-manager-compliance"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fmalt-senior-engineering-manager-compliance"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fmalt-senior-engineering-manager-compliance"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/malt-senior-engineering-manager-compliance\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fmalt-senior-engineering-manager-compliance"}]}