Senior AML Investigator
Zap Solutions, Inc. dba Strike operates an active Bitcoin financial and payments platform for buying, selling, holding, sending, and borrowing against bitcoin.
Funding history
About Zap Solutions, Inc.
Strike is a Bitcoin-focused financial platform operated by Zap Solutions, Inc. Its current offering includes bitcoin trading and custody, Bitcoin and Lightning payments, global money transfers, business accounts, a payments API, private-client trading, and bitcoin-backed lending.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Lead complex, high-risk, and multi-jurisdictional financial crime investigations; conduct on-chain tracing and attribution analysis; draft suspicious activity narratives and filing packages; review junior investigators’ work; identify emerging typologies; help evaluate and apply AI tooling; and escalate suspicious behaviors with well-reasoned customer risk recommendations.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of experience in AML, financial crime, or fraud investigations.
- At least 2 years of experience in blockchain or digital asset investigations.
- Demonstrated multi-hop bitcoin tracing through peel chains, consolidations, change behavior, and nested services.
- Exceptional analytical abilities and judgment on ambiguous facts.
- Outstanding written communication and experience producing SAR narratives and case files.
- Working knowledge of BSA/AML obligations, OFAC sanctions requirements, and SAR filing standards.
- Proficiency with Chainalysis, TRM Labs, open source research, and KYC/case management tools.
- Professional experience applying AI tooling.
- Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively in a remote, fast-paced setting.
- English fluency.
Responsibilities
- Lead investigations into high-risk and multi-jurisdictional activity, including structuring, layering, sanctions evasion, and fraud.
- Conduct on-chain tracing and attribution analysis on high-risk flows.
- Translate technical findings into plain-language conclusions.
- Serve as the internal authority on bitcoin investigations.
- Act as an escalation point on complex tracing.
- Review junior team members’ investigative work and written output.
- Draft suspicious activity narratives and prepare filing packages for BSA Officer review.
- Identify emerging patterns for monitoring rule design, threshold tuning, and false positive reduction.
- Evaluate and help apply AI tooling to investigative work.
- Set human review standards for AI-assisted investigative output.
- Detect and escalate anomalies or suspicious behaviors.
- Recommend customer risk decisions.
Benefits
- Equity in a high-growth startup
- Cell phone and internet reimbursement
- Flexible PTO
- Sick leave
- Parental leave
- No trading fees when buying and selling bitcoin on Strike