Senior AML Investigator

Strike is looking for a Senior AML Investigator to join a fast-growing bitcoin company.

The purpose of this role is to lead complex financial crime investigations and own suspicious activity narratives end to end. Your responsibilities will include high-risk and multi-jurisdictional investigations, on-chain tracing, SAR narrative drafting, and setting the standard for how bitcoin investigations are done here. This is a hands-on, cross-functional, highly-engaged role.

As part of Strike's Compliance team, Senior AML Investigators have a direct impact on all business areas and their work is used to inform critical business decisions across Strike. You will have the opportunity to take ownership, drive change, and have a direct impact on the overall success of the compliance program.

The ideal candidate will have deep experience investigating financial crime in a high-volume payments or digital asset environment, genuine fluency in the dynamic world of bitcoin, and will thrive in an ambitious startup environment. We are expanding our use of AI tooling across compliance, and this role carries real opportunity to shape how it is applied to investigative work. You must be comfortable with a team-first approach in a remote work environment.

This role is open to candidates located in Malta or EU. 

Responsibilities

• Complex Investigations: Lead investigations into the highest-risk and multi-jurisdictional activity, including structuring, layering, sanctions evasion, and fraud.
• Blockchain Tracing: Conduct on-chain tracing and attribution analysis on high-risk flows, translating technical findings into plain-language conclusions.
• Subject Matter Expertise: Serve as Strike's internal authority on bitcoin investigations. Act as escalation point on complex tracing, review the investigative work and written output of junior team members, and hold credibility with law enforcement, auditors, and examiners.
• SAR Narratives: Draft clear, defensible suspicious activity narratives and prepare filing packages for BSA Officer review.
• Typology Development: Identify emerging patterns and feed them into monitoring rule design, threshold tuning, and false positive reduction.
• AI-Enabled Investigations: Help shape how Strike applies AI tooling to investigative work, from evaluating tools to setting the human review standards that keep AI-assisted output defensible.
• Risk Escalations: Detect and escalate anomalies or suspicious behaviors in line with our AML and fraud policies, and make well-reasoned recommendations on customer risk decisions.

Requirements

• Experience: At least 4 years in AML, financial crime, or fraud investigations, including a minimum of 2 years dedicated to blockchain or digital asset investigations.
• Bitcoin Tracing Depth: Demonstrated multi-hop tracing through peel chains, consolidations, change behavior, and obfuscation such as nested services. You should be able to name the heuristics you rely on and where they break down.
• Analytical Prowess: Exceptional analytical abilities, with the judgment to defend a conclusion on ambiguous facts and to know when to escalate rather than resolve.
• Documentation & Narrative: Outstanding written communication, with a track record of SAR narratives and case files that withstand scrutiny.
• Regulatory Knowledge: Strong working knowledge of BSA/AML obligations, OFAC sanctions requirements, and SAR filing standards.
• Tech Savvy: Hands-on proficiency with blockchain analytics tooling (Chainalysis, TRM Labs), open source research, and KYC/case management tools.
• AI Fluency: Practical experience applying AI tooling professionally, with the judgment to know where it creates leverage and where its output cannot be relied on without verification.
• Independence & Teamwork: Capability to work autonomously and collaboratively in a remote, fast-paced setting, taking ownership of responsibilities. The ability to work with a high degree of urgency is critical.
• Language Skills: English fluency is a must, with additional languages being a valuable asset.

Malta- Based Positions

• Salary range: €73K - €84K
• Equity in a high-growth startup
• Cell phone and internet reimbursement
• Flexible PTO, sick leave & parental leave
• No trading fees when you buy and sell bitcoin on Strike

Other Locations

• Location dependent competitive salary
• No trading fees when you buy and sell bitcoin on Strike
• Other benefits are location dependent

We do not make hiring decisions based on educational history whatsoever. Our Founder is a college dropout. We employ high school dropouts, PHD candidates and everything in-between. We do not hire credentials. We simply hire talented, passionate individuals who are excited to be a part of our team.

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