Senior Software Engineer

ComplyAdvantage
London
1 year ago
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What you will be doing: We are looking for driven, talented Senior 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. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will: Be working alongside our ML engineers, data scientists, and other software engineers within the tribe Write new features that enable our platform to understand articles in the media, extract information about individuals, apply ML models to categorize their actions, and merge all this with existing data we hold. Your work will allow our customers to find out who has done something bad, what they did, and when 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 Senior, 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 Write tests, and take ownership of the systems that ensure the quality of our code Coach others in the team, sharing best practices and mentoring them Our Tech Stack: Our technology stack is designed to run on public cloud architectures, notably AWS and GCP Development is organised around Kotlin and Python for our backend languages and TypeScript/ES6React for our frontend stack We make substantial use of relational database technologies, notably Postgres and also use of large scale noSQL technologies such as Cassandra 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) We use modern observability solutions built on Grafana Cloud, and deploy our code using ArgoCD About you: As a Senior Software Engineer, you will have Over 5 years experience writing production-grade Kotlin or Java based applications Awareness of a range of languages and paradigms, with the ability to coach/mentor juniors Experience with high scale applications such as APIs dealing with large request volumes, or data processing pipelines Experience with containerisation and cloud infrastructure Ownership of software from idea inception to production Experience working with tooling for testing, build and deployment pipelines (setting it up is a plus) Working understanding of logging, monitoring and alerting tooling (setting it up is a plus) Good communication and written skills including experience producing technical documentation Nice to haves It would be nice if you had experience working in a multi-disciplinary team (ML Engineers, SREs, Product) Worked in an agile environment and have experience in pair programming Experience of coaching or mentoring more junior members of an engineering team Education: BSc/BA degree in computer science, engineering or related discipline OR relevant years of experience in required skills. What’s in it for you? Equity participation in our innovative mission to combat financial crime Unlimited Time Off Policy to promote work-life balance and well-being We embrace a hybrid approach that requires employees to be in the office for two days a week. We strongly believe that this approach fosters collaboration and enables the building of meaningful relationships Opportunities for collaboration and career development with smart, like-minded professionals Annual learning budget to support professional growth A home office budget to support working from home Enhanced parental leave and childcare benefits Life insurance and medical coverage through BUPA, including pre-existing conditions Pension contribution through The People's Pension About us: ComplyAdvantage is the financial industry’s leading source of AI-driven financial crime risk data and detection technology. Our mission is to neutralise the risk of money laundering, terrorist financing, corruption, and other financial crime. More than 1000 companies rely on us to understand the risk of who they’re doing business with through the world’s only global, real-time database of people and companies. Our solutions identify thousands of risk events daily from millions of structured and unstructured data points. We have five global hubs in New York, London, Singapore, Lisbon and Cluj-Napoca and are backed by Goldman Sachs, Ontario Teachers, Index Ventures, and Balderton Capital. Since 2014, we have raised over $100 million in funding, and in 2022 alone grew by over 40% to over 500 people globally. Over the next 12 months, as our revenue increases, we plan to increase to 600. At ComplyAdvantage diversity fuels our rocket ship and our commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, religion, identity and experience drives us forward every day. 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