Staff Engineer

at Ripjar
๐Ÿ’ฐ $128k
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง United Kingdom - Remote
๐Ÿ’ป Software Development๐Ÿ”ต Mid-level

Job 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.

Team Mission:

Ripjarโ€™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 โ€“ including global financial institutions, corporations and technology companies โ€“ 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 time.

Ripjarโ€™s unique approach to name and adverse media screening โ€“ usingย AI Risk Profilesย โ€“ 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 ourย Compliance Copilot.

What you’ll be doing:

Staff Engineers at Ripjar are experts in one or more technology domains within Ripjarโ€™s product set. Youโ€™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 principles.

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 Ripjarโ€™s overall technology roadmap.

As an Engineer with breadth and depth of experience youโ€™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 achieve this.

Key Tasks:

  • Own the software design and technology for a technical area of Labyrinth Screening.
  • Collaborate with the wider engineering teams, technology, product leaders and customers to establish requirements, design and deliver high quality software.
  • 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 outcomes.
  • Take a leading role in Labyrinth Screeningโ€™s engineering organisation: contributing to standards, design patterns and technology approaches across our technical teams.
  • Ensure consistent application of architectural decisions and guidelines across Ripjar’s software products.

The successful candidate should have these skills:

  • ย You have deep and broad experience in building and designing software: you are an engineer and technical leader.

  • Concrete knowledge and experience of software design patterns, industry best practices and architecture design.

  • Demonstrated expertise in deploying software into production environments

  • You have experience designing distributed systems that manage extensive data and/or workloads.

  • 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 progression.

  • You can communicate clearly - written, verbal, and visually - in the right level of detail for any audience.

Technical Skills:

  • Expertise in JavaScript
  • Experience working with OpenSearch/ElasticSearch
  • Experienced with MongoDB and/or Apache Kafka.
  • Itโ€™s great if youโ€™ve worked with EKS, Kubernetes.
  • Experience with microservices architectures
  • Demonstrable experience in scaling a SaaS platform is highly desirable โ€“ particularly around evolving and improving a system architecture

Why we think youโ€™ll enjoy it here:

  • Base Salary of ยฃ100,000 per year DOE
  • Remote working with occasional travel.
  • 25 days annual leave + your birthday off, rising to 30 days after 5 years of service
  • Flexible working hours
  • Life assurance
  • Private Family Healthcare
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Company contributions to your pension
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