Staff Engineer, Labyrinth Screening — Remote & Impactful

Ripjar

West of England

On-site

GBP 90,000 - 150,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote working
25 days annual leave
Private Healthcare
Pension salary sacrifice
Life Assurance
Employee Assistance Programme
MacBook Pro

Job summary

Ripjar is seeking a Staff Engineer to join its Labyrinth Screening SaaS team. You will lead architecture decisions, collaborate across engineering and product domains, and help scale the platform for global customers.

The role emphasizes technical breadth, leadership, and delivering scalable software in cloud and on-prem environments. Remote-first with a UK-wide hiring footprint, Cheltenham head office optional, competitive base salary and comprehensive benefits aligned with a fast-growing

Qualifications

  • Broad, deep software design and production deployment experience.
  • Experience with large-scale data processing and distributed systems.
  • Proven ability to lead, mentor and grow engineering teams.
  • Excellent written and spoken communication for diverse audiences.
  • Track record in designing scalable SaaS architectures.

Responsibilities

  • Own the software design and technology for a Labyrinth Screening area.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams, product leaders and customers to deliver high-quality software.
  • Embed engineering principles into decision-making and roadmaps.
  • Lead Labyrinth Screening’s engineering organisation, establishing standards and patterns.
  • Scale the SaaS platform to handle more customers, data feeds and users.

Skills

Software engineering
Distributed systems
Leadership
Technical mentoring
Cloud & on-prem architectures

Tools

JavaScript
ElasticSearch
OpenSearch
MongoDB
Apache Kafka
EKS
Kubernetes

Job description

Ripjar is seeking a Staff Engineer to join its Labyrinth Screening SaaS team. You will lead architecture decisions, collaborate across engineering and product domains, and help scale the platform for global customers.

The role emphasizes technical breadth, leadership, and delivering scalable software in cloud and on-prem environments. Remote-first with a UK-wide hiring footprint, Cheltenham head office optional, competitive base salary and comprehensive benefits aligned with a fast-growing

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