Compliance Technology Specialist

Deriv; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Deriv seeks an IC engineer to build systems that catch compliance issues before fines. You will design regulatory radar combining NLP with rule engines, enabling automated monitoring and screening across jurisdictions. The role emphasizes scalable automation and on-going regulatory intelligence.

You’ll contribute to onboarding, AML and fraud workflows, integrating AI/ML and blockchain tech as needed, with mentorship and technical leadership across the team.

Qualifications

• Experience designing regulatory monitoring systems.
• Knowledge of AML, KYC, and sanctions screening processes.
• Ability to build scalable automation for regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Design systems to aggregate rule changes across jurisdictions.
• Leverage NLP to interpret regulations and surface actionable alerts.
• Develop onboarding, AML and fraud workflows with microservices and rule engines.

Skills

NLP

RegTech

AML

Fraud detection

Tools

Microservices

Rule engines

AI/ML

Blockchain

Digital identity

Job description

We're not hiring a compliance officer who flags issues after the fact. We're hiring someone who builds the systems that catch them before they become fines.

Why This Matters

Deriv's mission is Trading for Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime. Real money, real regulations, real consequences—across every jurisdiction we operate in. Manual compliance doesn't scale to millions of transactions, and rules change faster than any policy team can track by hand.

We're building continuous monitoring, automated regulatory intelligence, and audit trails that regulators actually trust—because they're more consistent than human-only review.

Why Deriv

We're already automating compliance, not planning to.

• Automated AML review pulling data, computing risk metrics, and flagging high-risk clients without a human running the same query every morning
• Regulatory research automation: feed in a jurisdiction and licence type, get back applicable laws, requirements, and risk factors
• Dozens of fraud detection models running continuously in production, watching for money movement patterns and coordinated network behaviour

You'll extend systems already running in production, not pitch ideas that might get funded.

Scope

This is an Individual Contributor role. You'll lead through technical expertise, not people management—though you'll mentor others and shape how the team works.

You'll own components within one or two of these areas, with exposure to the rest:

• Regulatory Monitoring & Intelligence — NLP systems that read global rule changes and surface what actually needs action
• Onboarding, AML & Fraud Workflows — microservices and rule engines replacing manual review steps
• RegTech Integration — evaluating and integrating AI/ML, blockchain, and digital identity tools into KYC, transaction monitoring, and sanctions screening

Your day-to-day focus depends on team priorities, but the work touches all three.

What You'll Do

Build the regulatory radar

• Design systems that aggregate rule changes across jurisdictions, use NLP to work out what they actually mean, and generate alerts with a recommended action attached—not just "