You own something in week one
No bench, no shadowing period. A new engineer ships to a module customers use. A new seller carries a region. It is the scope a large company would hand you at thirty-five, and nothing arrives in a neat package.
Compliance is a serious craft. Come and be good at it.
Complead runs sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, fraud detection and case management for more than 800 financial institutions in over 70 countries. Most of the team fits in one building on the Bosphorus, and we are hiring across six teams.
What this team actually is
Careers pages usually describe a company nobody works at. Four things are true about this one, and you should decide about all four before you send a CV.
Engineering, second floor
Customer success on a live call
Standup, Tuesday morning
Sales, mid pipeline review
Lunch on the long table
Product, whiteboard argument
We work from the office
Every role on this page is on-site in Istanbul. A choice, not a leftover policy: compliance products come out of constant argument between engineering, product and the people on customer calls, and that argument is faster in a room. If you want remote or hybrid, we are the wrong company, and better said here than in the third interview.
The work has weight
What we build decides whether a payment clears, an account opens, a case reaches a regulator. A false positive wastes someone's week. A false negative lets money laundering through. Nobody here has to be told why the detail matters.
We are younger than our customers
Most of the team is in their twenties and early thirties, sitting across from compliance officers who have been in the field longer than we have been alive. That gap closes with preparation, not confidence.
Your work is in seventy countries by Friday
There is no domestic version of this job. Screening logic written in Kuzguncuk on Monday is checking payments in Baku, Frankfurt and Singapore by the end of the week. Every role here is a global role, including the junior ones.
70+countries with customers
800+institutions live
3offices, New York, London and Istanbul
What twelve months here looks like
Not a promise, a pattern. This is roughly how the last few people in each team spent their first year. Ask about it in the interview and we will give you the unedited version.
Engineering and Product
From first pull request to owning a surface.
week 1
Local environment, first merged pull request, and a walk through how a screening request actually travels the platform.
month 3
You own a module or a product surface, with its metrics and its release notes. On-call rotation. You have already talked to a customer about it.
month 12
You are the person the team asks before a design decision in your area, and you write the quarterly plan for it.
Sales
From first territory to closing regulated buyers.
week 1
The product, the regulation, the competitive picture. You sit in on live calls before you make your own.
month 3
Your own territory and pipeline, running discovery with compliance officers without a chaperone.
month 12
You have closed in more than one regulatory regime and you know why each of them said yes.
Growth and Marketing
From first channel to owning the pipeline number.
week 1
You read two quarters of pipeline before you touch a channel, and you sit in on sales calls from the first week.
month 3
You own a channel and the number under it, from first touch through to qualified pipeline.
month 12
You set the demand plan for a market we are entering and defend the spend behind it.
Customer Success
From shadowing calls to owning a book.
week 1
Product certification, ticket queue, sitting in on live onboarding sessions with existing customers.
month 3
Named accounts of your own, including at least one international institution, with renewal responsibility.
month 12
You run implementations end to end and your escalations shape what product builds next quarter.
You are joining at the rebrand, not after it
Sanction Scanner became Complead because the product outgrew the name. Same team, same data, a much bigger surface. The next two years are the United States, the DACH region and the funding round that pays for both. Everything below the line is still being written.
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2019
Founded
Istanbul, and the first screening customers.
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2022
Global data
Coverage went worldwide. First Deloitte Technology Fast 50.
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2024
One engine
Modules consolidated into a single risk engine. Series A.
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2026
Complead
One brand across screening, monitoring, fraud and cases, and a New York office. You are here.
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Next
DACH, and deeper in the States
The next markets and the round that funds them. Still being written.
How we hire
Four steps, about three weeks end to end. You will meet the people you would work with, not a panel of strangers, and you will be assessed against the six values below as much as against the craft. Our founder reads every CV that comes in.
Application
You apply through the board below. Every application is read by a person, and by the founder for senior roles. No keyword filter decides your outcome.
2 days to a replyFirst conversation
Forty-five minutes with the hiring manager. What you have actually built or sold, what you want next, and the honest version of the role.
45 minutesWork session
A real problem from our work, discussed live. Engineers read and extend code. Sellers run a discovery call. No take-home that eats your weekend.
90 minutesTeam and offer
You meet the team and see the office. If it is a yes, you get the offer, the level and the reasoning behind both in writing.
3 weeks totalWhat we hold each other to
Every company has values on a wall. These six are the ones we interview against, promote against and, when it comes to it, part ways over. Each one below says what it actually costs.
Be fair
We apply rules based on values, not individuals.
Every candidate goes through the same four steps and every level is explained in writing. Nobody negotiates their way into an exception.
Believe in growth
Better than we were yesterday, with challenges treated as lessons.
Interns take real accounts and real code. The fastest way to be given more here is to have done the last thing well.
Build trust
Trust is not given, it is earned and then protected.
Hundreds of institutions let us see their customer data. That is the entire business, and it is why we hire careful people.
Take responsibility
We own our decisions and our results.
You own a module or a region with your name on it. When something breaks the question is what we change, not who to blame.
Stay agile
Change is constant, so we stay flexible and proactive.
Regulation moves and so do we. A rule that has to ship this week ships this week, without a quarter of committee.
Be transparent
We share openly and act honestly.
Bad news travels as fast as good news here, and plans are shared before they are certain. Including with candidates.
What comes with the job
The real list, without the table tennis. If something below is not confirmed yet, it says so.
Cover for you from your first month. Family cover available.
Cooked lunch every working day, plus breakfast and coffee.
Engineering roles sit inside a Law 4691 technology park, with the income tax treatment that comes with it.
The machine and the setup you actually work well on, replaced on a fixed cycle.
Certifications, courses and conferences in compliance, security and engineering.
Statutory leave plus company days, and the expectation that you take them.
You will interview candidates in your first year. Reading people is a skill we teach on purpose.
No layer between you and the founder. Decisions get made in the same week they are raised.
Three offices, all of them on the water
New York on the Hudson, London on the Thames, Istanbul on the Bosphorus. Not a coincidence: money moves where trade moves, and trade has always followed water. It also means your commute is a boat more often than you would expect.
New York, on the Hudson
Open, and our foothold in the United States. Working New York hours is the difference between answering an American institution today and answering it tomorrow, and regulators there do not wait either.
London, on the Thames
Complead Ltd, our UK entity, a short walk from the river. Customer, partner and contract work for the UK and Europe runs through it, in the city that writes half the rules we build against.
Istanbul, on the Bosphorus
Where most of the team sits, in Uskudar. Wooden houses in Kuzguncuk, a ferry pier close enough to be the default way home, and engineering, product, sales and customer success all within earshot of each other.
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Open roles
Every one of them on-site in Istanbul. Applications go through Workable and land in front of a person the same day.
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Small enough to know every name. Trusted by 800 institutions.
Roles open across six teams, all in Istanbul. If you want scope earlier than a large company would give you, and you are willing to be in the room for it, we should talk.
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