Senior Software Engineer

Ripjar; Remote; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A software and data solutions company is looking for a Software Engineer to join their Labyrinth Screening team, focusing on developing advanced solutions to combat money laundering and fraud. This role offers the opportunity to design and implement innovative features within a scalable, multi-tenant architecture. The ideal candidate should have experience with JavaScript, Python, and modern DevOps practices. Benefits include a competitive salary, 25-30 days of annual leave, and the possibility of fully remote working.

Benefits

Competitive salary DOE

25 days annual leave

Christmas week shutdown

Your birthday as a holiday

35 hour working week

Private Family Healthcare

Employee Assistance Programme

Pension salary sacrifice

Company contributions to your pension

Enhanced maternity / paternity pay

Latest tech (MacBook Pro)

Free food and drink

Fully remote working

Qualifications

• Passionate about solving complex problems and building great software.
• Curious, adaptable, and ready to grow.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop features to prevent money laundering.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, UX, and operations.
• Continuously improve platform performance and reliability.

Skills

JavaScript / TypeScript (Node.js, React)

Python

Distributed systems

Event streaming (Kafka, Kubernetes)

Databases (MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch)

Modern DevOps practices

CI / CD pipelines

Job description

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 enabling organisations to enforce sanctions at scale to help combat rogue entities and state actors.

We are a remote first team, with a head office based in Cheltenham. This position is open to UK wide candidates. If you are based near Cheltenham, you are more than welcome to work from our office at any time.

Team mission

Our engineering team builds software that makes the world a safer place. We work collectively to use technology, creativity and engineering best practice to solve problems that nobody else can.

What you’ll be doing

Join us in the fight against global financial crime. At Ripjar, our engineers are building Labyrinth Screening — an advanced AI-powered platform that helps major financial institutions detect and prevent money laundering and fraud in real time. Your work will directly protect people and organisations from criminal networks around the world.

You’ll contribute to our customers’ success by designing, developing and shipping features to prevent money laundering and financial crime.

Some of the key technology challenges facing the team this year include :

• Developing our scalable, multi-tenant, cloud-based SaaS-first architecture.
• Upgrading our DevOps tooling to ship code fast with certainty.
• Harnessing the power of Labyrinth Screening to work with new types of data at scale within Ripjar’s wider financial crime solutions.

As a Software Engineer on the Labyrinth Screening team, you’ll :

• Design, develop, and ship cutting-edge features that stop criminals in their tracks.
• Shape our scalable, multi-tenant, cloud-first architecture to handle billions of data points.
• Upgrade and evolve our DevOps ecosystem to deliver code rapidly and confidently.
• Collaborate across disciplines — engineering, product, UX, and operations—to turn bold ideas into reliable, production-ready solutions.
• Continuously improve our platform’s performance, reliability, and developer experience.

Requirements

The successful candidate should have these skills :

We’re looking for passionate engineers who love solving complex problems and building great software. You don’t need to tick every box — if you’re curious, adaptable, and ready to grow, we want to hear from you.

Ideally, you’ll bring experience with some of the following :

• JavaScript / TypeScript (Node.js, React) or Python
• Distributed systems and event streaming (Kafka, Kubernetes)
• Databases and search indexes (MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch)
• Modern DevOps practices and CI / CD pipelines

Benefits

Why we think you’ll love it here :

• Competitive salary DOE
• 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days after 5 years of service.
• Christmas week shut down
• Your birthday as a holiday
• 35 hour working week only
• Private Family Healthcare.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Pension salary sacrifice
• Company contributions to your pension.
• Enhanced maternity / paternity pay.
• The latest tech including a top of the range MacBook Pro.
• Free food and drink
• Fully remote working