Sr. Engineering Manager

The posting, as Complycareers wrote it

Who Are We

Comply is the leading provider of compliance SaaS and consulting services for the global financial services sector. With more than 5,000 clients and hundreds of employees across the globe, Comply empowers Chief Compliance Officers and their teams to proactively manage regulatory obligations, mitigate risk, and scale with efficiency and confidence.

Comply serves thousands of global financial services clients including broker-dealers, insurers, investment banks, private funds, RIAs, and wealth managers who rely on Comply offerings to power their compliance programs.

To learn more about Comply, visit comply.com

About the role
Comply is looking for a Sr. Engineering Manager to lead and grow a high-performing software engineering team, shipping reliable, scalable software that powers compliance programs for thousands of financial services clients worldwide. In this role, you’ll own both the people and the technical direction of your team, partnering closely with product, QA, and business stakeholders to deliver against an ambitious roadmap. You’ll report to the Senior Director of Software Engineering and lead engineers based in India. Flexibility for cross-timezone collaboration is part of the rhythm, balanced by Comply’s commitment to sustainable, predictable working hours for managers.
You’ll love this role if you’re energized by growing engineers, thrive in a fast-moving product environment, and want to shape the architecture of a cloud-native SaaS platform at real scale.
What you’ll do

• Lead a cross-functional engineering team, including QA and offshore engineers in India.
• Own everything from sprint planning and code review through deployment and production reliability.
• Set and hold the technical bar by establishing coding standards, conduct meaningful code reviews, and keep the team’s work secure, scalable, and aligned to architectural best practices.
• Partner with product and business stakeholders to define and prioritize delivery, ensuring every sprint connects back to customer value and product strategy.
• Build and sustain a team culture of ownership, inclusion, continuous learning, and craft where engineers feel accountable and supported in equal measure.
• Coach and develop engineers at all levels, run meaningful 1:1s, manage performance, and partner with recruiting to bring in the right strategic talent.
• Drive the technical roadmap by balancing near-term delivery commitments with long-term platform health, innovation, and technical debt reduction.
• Champion modern engineering practices across the team: CI/CD pipelines, agile methodologies, version control (Bitbucket), and AI-assisted development tools.
• Collaborate across business units to provide engineering perspective on product and commercial decisions and contribute to the broader direction of Comply’s software platform.

What success looks like in your first 90 days

• You’ve built strong working relationships with your team and key cross-funct

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neering practices: CI/CD pipelines, agile methodologies, and version control systems (e.g., Bitbucket).

• Familiarity with relational and NoSQL databases (SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres, Elasticsearch).
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field — or equivalent experience.

Nice-to-have

• Experience in financial services or other regulated industries.
• Cloud certifications: AWS (preferred), Azure, or GCP.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Redis, or Jenkins.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor.ai, or AWS Bedrock.

The all-in total compensation for this role is $165,000 and $176,000 , and is specific to the United States. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range would be $150,000 - $160,000 plus applicable bonus/benefit offerings, etc., as those similarly situated within the Company. It takes into account a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including, but not limited to, skill sets, training, licensure and certification, and experience.

To learn more about our values, mission and the wide-range of perks offered to employees at Comply, visit https://www.comply.com/careers/ .

Comply is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin. Nothing in this job posting should be construed as an offer or guarantee of employment.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States. Currently, we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

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