London, United Kingdom

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/ES6+React 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
We also use an event-sourced model powered by Kafka for our communication bus and gRPC for our intra-service communication protocol
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. We encourage everyone to apply and aspire to consider every application fairly.

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