Senior Software Engineer - Labyrinth Screening

RipJar; Remote; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology firm tackling financial crime in Gloucester seeks engineers passionate about solving complex problems and building software. As part of a remote-first team, you will develop cutting-edge features for Labyrinth Screening to prevent money laundering and fraud in real-time. The ideal candidate will have expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript or Python, experience with distributed systems, and a strong understanding of modern DevOps practices. Join us in making the world safer through innovative technology.

Benefits

Competitive salary DOE

25 days annual leave

Christmas week shut down

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 including a top-of-the-range MacBook Pro

Free food and drink

Fully remote working

Qualifications

• Passionate engineers who love solving complex problems.
• Experience with modern software development practices.
• Adaptable and ready to grow in a remote-first environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and ship features combating financial crime.
• Shape scalable, cloud-first architecture handling massive data.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver reliable software solutions.

Skills

JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js, React) or Python

Distributed systems and event streaming

MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch

Modern DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

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

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—a 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.

Key Technology Challenges

• 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.

Benefits

• 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