[Hiring] Senior AML Investigator @Strike

Role Description

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
• Setting the standard for how bitcoin investigations are done

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
• Ability to thrive in an ambitious startup environment

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

Responsibilities

• Lead investigations into the highest-risk and multi-jurisdictional activity, including structuring, layering, sanctions evasion, and fraud.
• Conduct on-chain tracing and attribution analysis on high-risk flows, translating technical findings into plain-language conclusions.
• 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.
• Hold credibility with law enforcement, auditors, and examiners.
• Draft clear, defensible suspicious activity narratives and prepare filing packages for BSA Officer review.
• Identify emerging patterns and feed them into monitoring rule design, threshold tuning, and false positive reduction.
• Help shape how Strike applies AI tooling to investigative work.
• Detect and escalate anomalies or suspicious behaviors in line with our AML and fraud policies.
• Make well-reasoned recommendations on customer risk decisions.

Requirements

• At least 4 years in AML, financial crime, or fraud investigations, including a minimum of 2 years dedicated to blockchain or digital asset investigations.
• Demonstrated multi-hop tracing through peel chains, consolidations, change behavior, and obfuscation.
• Exceptional analytical abilities, with the judgment to defend a conclusion on ambiguous facts.
• Outstanding written communication, with a track record of SAR narratives and case files that withstand scrutiny.
• Strong working knowledge of BSA/AML obligations, OFAC sanctions requirements, and SAR filing standards.
• Hands-on proficiency with blockchain analytics tooling (Chainalysis, TRM Labs), open source research, and KYC/case management tools.
• Practical experience applying AI tooling professionally.
• Capability to work autonomously and collaboratively in a remote, fast-paced setting.
• English fluency is a must, with additional languages being a valuable asset.

Benefits

• Salary range: €73K - €84K (Malta-based positions)
• 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
• Location dependent competitive salary (Other locations)
• Other benefits are location dependent