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, and enables organisations to enforce sanctions at scale to help combat rogue entities and state actors.
Team Mission
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 comparies – 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.
What you'll be doing
As a Principal Engineer, you will be the senior technologist in the Labyrinth Screening team. You’ll be the technology leader within our engineering and product teams, guiding the design and development of Labyrinth Screening and its underlying technology platform. You’ll work closely with senior leaders and colleagues across the organisation, and you’ll play a key role in collaborating with our customers and partners.
As an engineer with breadth and depth of experience you’ll be in your element designing and delivering scalable software in the cloud and on-premise, articulating software designs and tradeoffs, communicating with engineers, technology and product leaders, senior leadership and customers.
You’re a key individual contributor and natural technical leader, comfortable guiding engineering teams through uncertainty, unravelling complexity and providing a clear vision. You’ll work with our engineering managers and staff/senior engineers to empower engineers to deliver high quality software
You’ll play a lead role in the design and direction of our product functionality, and you’ll engage with key customers to understand their needs and shape them into an effective product and technology roadmap.
As a senior technologist you’ll be central to Ripjar’s technical leadership. You’ll report directly to the CTO.
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Ripjar's Commitment to Diversity
“Diversity is essential in the way we operate. Having people from different backgrounds, genders and experiences ensures that we make decisions with a truly global perspective. Diversity gives us strength in our technology, analysis and relationships.” - Maria Cox, Head of People Operations
