Compliance Lead

🚀 Compliance Lead / Fraud & Transaction Monitoring | Remote 🚀

We’re looking for a hands-on Compliance Lead to join a fast-growing crypto-financial platform built on Solana. This is a fractional / part-time role with a real opportunity to transition into full-time as the company grows.

✔️ Compensation: Competitive, discussed individually

✔️ Format: Part-time / Fractional, 15–25 hours per week, Remote

✔️ About the Role:

The company is a non-custodial crypto-financial platform on Solana combining Visa cards, crypto-backed credit lines, DeFi yield and virtual banking accounts. The company is actively growing and preparing for a Seed round. Currently, compliance is shared between the CTO, KYC provider and partner requirements. We are looking for someone who will take full ownership of this function. The first priority will be to build anti-fraud monitoring for card and banking transactions and manage compliance workflows with banking and card partners.

✔️ Key Responsibilities:

• Own compliance and anti-fraud across card transactions and banking transfers

• Build and calibrate fraud rules and transaction monitoring logic

• Work with CTO and product team on data-driven fraud monitoring

• Communicate with banking, BaaS and card partners on compliance requirements

• Prepare reports, remediation plans and responses to partner requests

• Manage chargebacks and disputes

• Reduce fraud rate and chargeback ratio to partner target levels

• Oversee AML and sanctions screening on top of the existing KYC stack

• Set up escalation flows and manage compliance cases

• Prepare compliance documentation and policies, including AML policy and transaction monitoring policy

• Support the compliance block for investor due diligence and data room preparation

✔️ Key Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience in compliance, fraud operations or transaction monitoring in fintech

• Experience with card programs, issuer-processors, program managers or BaaS platforms is highly preferred

• Practical experience with transaction fraud: rules, scoring, monitoring, mule activity, ACH/card fraud

• Experience working directly with sponsor banks, BaaS partners or similar providers

• Understanding of AML/CFT requirements

• Crypto sector experience and knowledge of UAE/DIFC regulations would be a plus

• Ability to work with data: SQL or strong analytics/reporting skills would be a strong plus

• Working English for communication with partners and regulators

• Russian for internal team communication

• High ownership and ability to build processes from scratch

✔️ Nice to Have:

• Experience with partners such as Bridge, Rain, Stripe Issuing, Marqeta, Solaris or similar

• Experience in crypto-fintech or non-custodial products

• Knowledge of DIFC / UAE compliance requirements

• Strong hands-on approach, not only policy-writing experience

• Startup experience in fast-growing environments

✔️ Benefits:

• Flexible part-time / fractional format with potential transition to full-time

• Opportunity to build the compliance function of a crypto-fintech product from scratch

• Direct work with the founder and CTO

• Fast decision-making and no bureaucracy

• Fully remote setup

• Payments in USDT

• Potential option package as the company grows