Software Engineer

About this role

<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>What you will be doing: </strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">We are looking for driven, talented Software Engineers to help us build our SaaS-based anti-money laundering solutions, which help organizations fight financial crime! We are building cutting-edge solutions that help reveal the truth for a safer world and stop money from ending up in the hands of criminals. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">As a Software Engineer, you will: </span></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Write new features that enable orchestration of complex workflows in our platform as well as large scale data migrations</li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Join one of our scrum teams and help us make the right technical and architectural decisions as we evolve and scale our systems. As a team member, we will look to you to sometimes take a lead in these discussions and bring your own ideas as well as solicit and incorporate ideas from others in the team</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Write tests, and take ownership of the systems that ensure the quality of our cod</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Be working alongside our ML engineers, data scientists, and other software engineers within the tribe</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Our Tech Stack:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Our technology stack is designed to run on public cloud architectures, notably AWS and GCP</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Development is organised around Kotlin and Python for our backend languages and TypeScript/ES6+React for our frontend stack</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">We make substantial use of relational database technologies, notably Postgres and also use of large scale noSQL technologies such as Cassandra</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">We also use an event-sourced model powered by Kafka for our communication bus and gRPC for our intra-service communication protocol</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">For our data and AI teams, experience of machine learning development and very large scale columnar data stores (e.g. Apache HBase, Databricks) is key, as well as experience of large scale data streaming technologies such as Apache Spark, graph databases (e.g. Neo4j, AWS Neptune, TigerGraph)</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">We use modern observability solutions built on Grafana Cloud, and deploy our code using ArgoCD</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>About you:</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">As a Software Engineer, you will have</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">At least 2 years experience writing production-grade Kotlin or Java based applications</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Awareness of a range of languages and paradigms, with the ability to share knowledge</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Experience with high scale applications such as APIs dealing with large request volumes, or data processing pipelines</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Experience with containerisation and cloud infrastructure</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Ownership of software from idea inception to production</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Experience working with tooling for testing, build and deployment pipelines (setting it up is a plus) </span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial,…