Compliance Engineer - Regulation & Risk

The Opportunity

We’re looking to hire a conveyancing compliance expert to join our rapidly growing team in a role that doesn’t exist anywhere else. You’ll wear two hats. As a Compliance Legal Engineer, you’ll work alongside our conveyancers and legal engineers to build the AI compliance agent that makes that protection faster, sharper and more consistent than any firm has managed before. As Deputy Head of Legal Practice (Deputy HOLP) and Deputy Money Laundering Reporting Officer (Deputy MLRO), you’ll help keep Farringdon safe, compliant and trusted. This is an early, high‑impact role and a rare chance to help set the compliance standard for an AI‑native law firm from the beginning. You won’t just police the rules, you’ll be teaching our technology to spot risk, surface the right checks at the right moment and free our lawyers to focus on clients. If you’ve ever felt that compliance is treated as a brake rather than an engine, this is your chance to prove the opposite.

What You Will Do

• Deputy HOLP: Support the Head of Legal Practice in making sure Farringdon meets its obligations under the CLC Handbook and Code of Conduct. Help oversee legal casework standards, supervision and file quality, monitor for compliance risk, and step in to cover the HOLP’s responsibilities in their absence.
• Deputy MLRO: Work alongside the MLRO to ensure we comply with our AML obligations including receiving and assessing internal suspicious activity reports, help decide when a report should be escalated to the National Crime Agency, and provide cover so the firm’s reporting line is never interrupted.
• Build the AML and compliance framework: Help develop, maintain and test the firm’s policies, controls and risk assessments, from client due diligence and source of funds to file reviews, sanctions screening and conflict checks. Keep them current as regulation and risk evolve, and make sure they work in practice, not just on paper.
• Compliance Legal Engineering: Work hand in hand with our conveyancing and legal engineering teams to build Farringdon’s AI compliance agent: defining the checks, encoding the rules, designing how risk is detected and surfaced, and testing and refining the system so it is accurate, explainable and trusted. You’ll translate dense regulation into logic a machine can apply consistently, while keeping a human firmly in control of every decision that matters. Run a small caseload to understand and support the role of our conveyancers, and stay ahead of and inspire ideas for continuous improvement and innovation.
• Set the compliance culture: Train and support colleagues so good compliance is second nature, act as a trusted point of contact for regulatory questions, and help build a culture where speed and rigour reinforce each other rather than compete.

What We Are Looking For

• A conveyancing compliance expert with strong, current knowledge of the regulatory landscape: the CLC Handbook (or equivalent SRA experience), the Money Laundering Regulations, POCA, and AML best practice in a property law context. You hold a current practising certificate free of conditions and have great residential conveyancing experience.
• Hands‑on experience running or overseeing AML and compliance in a conveyancing department or law firm, including client due diligence, source of funds, risk assessments, file reviews and suspicious activity reporting.
• AI‑first mindset: You’ve invested time to learn about AI and experimented with various AI tools at work and at home, and you’re excited to use AI and automation to create meaningful skill leverage — not just efficiency gains.
• A builder’s instinct: you can break a complex rule down into clear, logical steps, and you’re energised by the idea of teaching technology to apply it. You don’t need to write code, but you think in a structured, systematic way.
• Comfortable operating in a fast‑moving environment, exercising sound judgement when to slow down, elevate or seek additional review to protect clients and the firm’s reputation.
• Experience as a HOLP, MLRO, or their deputy, or in a senior compliance or risk role in a regulated legal business.
• Exposure to legal technology, process design, or building and testing automated checks or workflows.

What We Offer

This role is ideal for someone who wants to work with intensity at the frontier of AI to solve a problem everyone involved in the home buying and selling industry can relate to. You’ll enjoy meaningful ownership and a broad remit, and work alongside a high calibre team that have experience in the industry and AI, and care deeply about the problems Farringdon is solving.

• Competitive Salary and 5% employer pension
• Share options
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• Financial support for CPD requirements
• Vibrant central London offices with panoramic views and a great atmosphere
• Regular team lunches and socials, plus free snacks, drinks and barista coffee
• 30% off gym membership (to balance out the free snacks!)

Farringdon is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds.