Senior Distributed Systems & Detection Engineer - Lisbon, Hybrid

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

Join a Northern European AI-driven financial crime prevention scale-up expanding their Lisbon engineering hub. This is a rare opportunity to architect and build the core detection engine that processes large-scale financial data for leading financial institutions across Europe. The company is backed by top-tier investors and moving beyond traditional AML software toward intelligent automation and agentic AI systems that transform how banks fight financial crime.

PROJECT & CONTEXT

You’ll be designing and building the detection engine from the ground up—the distributed system responsible for evaluating massive financial datasets, computing behavioral patterns, and executing detection logic at scale. This is greenfield architecture work on an Azure‑native platform using modern data stack (Spark, Iceberg, Trino) combined with advanced AI capabilities. The engineering culture is design‑first: architectural decisions are documented through...