Staff Engineer - Labyrinth Screening
Ripjar
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Formación
- Deep and broad experience in building and designing software.
- Experience working with big data or large scale data processing systems.
- Concrete knowledge of software design patterns and architecture design.
- Expertise in deploying software into production environments.
- Experience designing distributed systems that manage extensive data.
- Proven ability to lead and mentor wider technical teams.
- Strong communication skills for all audience levels.
Responsabilidades
- Own software design and technology for Labyrinth Screening.
- Collaborate with teams to establish requirements and deliver quality software.
- Incorporate engineering principles into decision-making processes.
- Contribute to standards and design patterns across technical teams.
- Ensure consistent application of architectural decisions across products.
- Scale the SaaS platform to handle more customers and data, guiding architectural changes.
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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.
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.
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 time.
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 Copilot.
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 worldwide 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 Ripjar's overall technology roadmap.
As an engineer with breadth and depth of experience you’ll be 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.
- 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 Screening'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
- You have deep and broad experience in building and designing software: you are an engineer and technical leader.
- You have experience working with big data or large scale data processing systems.
- 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 visibly – in the right level of detail for any audience.
- Expertise in Software Engineering.
- Strong working knowledge of one or more of our tech stack, these include: JavaScript, ElasticSearch, OpenSearch, MongoDB, Apache Kafka, EKS and Kubernetes.
- Experience with microservices architectures.
- Demonstrable experience in scaling a SaaS platform is highly desirable – particularly around evolving and improving a system architecture.
- Competitive base salary DOE
- 25 days annual leave + birthdays off, rising to 30 days after 5 years of service & Christmas shutdown
- Fully remote working
- 35 hour working week
- Flexible working hours
- Private Family Healthcare
- Life Assurance
- Pension salary sacrifice
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Company contributions to your pension
- Enhanced maternity/paternity pay
- The latest tech including a top of the range MacBook Pro
- There is a well‑stocked pantry with food, snacks and drinks when in the office
Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level
Employment type: Full‑time
Job function: IT Services and IT Consulting
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