Staff Software Engineer

Description

Ripjar specialises in the development of software and data products that help governments and organisations combat serious financial crime. Our technology is used to identify criminal activity such as money laundering and terrorist financing, enabling organisations to enforce sanctions at scale to help combat rogue entities and state actors.

:Ripjar’s Engineering team builds software products that make the world safer. We work together, mixing creativity with technology and engineering excellence to solve problems that nobody else can

.
Our customers – including global financial institutions, corporations and technology companies – rely on our Labyrinth Screening product to monitor millions of client records, counterparties and prospects for sanctions, AML/CTF and other risks against billions of data points in near-real tim

e.
Ripjar’s unique approach to name and adverse media screening – using AI risk profiles – provides our customers with world leading capability, recognised by Chartis as a Category Leader in KYC Solutions. We continue to innovate at pace the compliance sector, pioneering the responsible use of AI with our Compliance Copilo

t .
What you'll be do

ing:Staff Engineers at Ripjar are experts in one or more technology domains within Ripjar’s product set. You’ll be working on the Labyrinth Screening SaaS platform which has over 120 businesses using it around the world and growing rapidly. This requires exceptional technical knowledge, good leadership skills, and a deep understanding of software design and development princip

les.
Staff engineers will collaborate within and across engineering teams, working closely with engineering managers and other technical stakeholders to guide sound technical decisions and provide oversight for the teams they support. They also partner with senior technical leaders to shape Ripjar’s overall technology roa

dmap.
As an Engineer with breadth and depth of experience you’ll be in your element designing and delivering scalable software in the cloud and on-premise, articulating software designs and trade-offs, communicating with engineers, technology and product leaders, senior leadership and customers. You will be able to influence the engineering teams to adopt new ideas and embrace

them.
Your initial primary task is anticipated to be scaling our SaaS platform to handle many more companies, data feeds, data items and users. Driving the necessary changes to our architecture, testing, processes and culture to achiev

e this.
Ke

• y Tasks:Own the software design and technology for a technical area of Labyrinth Sc
• reening.Collaborate with the wider engineering teams, technology, product leaders and customers to establish requirements, design and deliver high quality s
• oftware.Incorporate engineering principles and methodologies into the broader organisational decision-making process to ensure problem definition, solution development and quality assurance are effectively integrated into our business o
• utcomes.Take a leading role in Labyrinth Screening’s engineering organisation: contributing to standards, design patterns and technology approaches across our technica
• l teams.Ensure consistent application of architectural decisions and guidelines across Ripjar's software p

roducts.
Req

uirementsThe successful candidate should have thes

• e skills:You have deep and broad experience in building and designing software: you are an engineer and technica
• l leader.You must have experience working with big data or large scale data processing
• systems.Concrete knowledge and experience of software design patterns, industry best practices and architectur
• e design.Demonstrated expertise in deploying software into production env
• ironmentsYou have experience designing distributed systems that manage extensive data and/or w
• orkloads.You can quickly comprehend complex scenarios, unravel uncertainty and ambiguity and articulate the architecture of complex
• systems.Proven ability to lead, mentor, and engage wider technical teams to drive internal growth and career pro
• gression.You can communicate clearly - written, verbal, and visually - in the right level of detail for any

audience.
Technic

• al Skills:Expertise in Software E
• ngineeringStrong working knowledge of one or more of our tech stack, these include: JavaScript, ElasticSearch, OpenSearch, MongoDB, Apache Kafka, EKS and K
• ubernetes.Experience with microservices arc
• hitecturesDemonstrable experience in scaling a SaaS platform is highly desirable – particularly around evolving and improving a system ar

chitectu

re
BenefitsWhy we think you’ll enj

• oy it here:Competitive base
• salary DOE25 days annual leave + birthdays off, rising to 30 days after 5 years of service & Christma
• s shutdown.Fully rem
• ote working35 hour w
• orking weekFlexible wor
• king hours.Private Family
• HealthcareLif
• e AssurancePension salar
• y sacrificeEmployee Assistanc
• e ProgrammeCompany contributions to y
• our pensionEnhanced maternity/pa
• ternity payThe latest tech including a top of the range
• MacBook ProThere is a well-stocked pantry with food, snacks and drinks when in

the office