Senior Software Engineer

Ripjar; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary DOE

25 days annual leave, rising to 30 after 5 years

Christmas week shut down

Birthday holiday

35 hour working week

Private Family Healthcare

Employee Assistance Programme

Pension salary sacrifice

Company contributions to pension

Enhanced maternity/paternity pay

Latest tech including a MacBook Pro

Free food and drink

Fully remote working

Job summary

A leading software company in the UK seeks a Senior Software Engineer to develop innovative solutions to combat financial crime. This remote-first role involves designing and shipping features for an AI-powered platform used by major financial institutions. Ideal candidates should have experience in distributed systems, databases, and modern DevOps practices. Perks include a competitive salary, generous leave policies, and a fully remote working environment.

Qualifications

• Passionate engineers who love solving complex problems and building great software.
• Experience with distributed systems and event streaming.
• Familiarity with databases and search indexes.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and ship cutting-edge features that stop criminals in their tracks.
• Shape scalable, multi-tenant, cloud-first architecture.
• Upgrade DevOps ecosystem to deliver code rapidly.
• Collaborate across engineering, product, UX and operations to turn bold ideas into production-ready solutions.
• Continuously improve platform performance, reliability and developer experience.

Skills

Distributed systems and event streaming (Kafka, Kubernetes)

Databases and search indexes (MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch)

Modern DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines

Redis

Elasticsearch

CI/CD

DevOps

Job description

Join to apply for the Senior Software Engineer role at Ripjar

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:

• Distributed systems and event streaming (Kafka, Kubernetes)
• Databases and search indexes (MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch)
• Modern DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines

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

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Seniority level

• Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

• Full‑time

Job function

• Software Development, IT System Custom Software Development, and Technology, Information and Media