Engineering Manager, Ripjar
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Real-time intelligence for countering a wide range of threats
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Real-time intelligence for countering a wide range of threats
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help governments and organisations automate the detection, investigation and monitoring of threats from criminal activity.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for a manager who thrives on improving processes, building reliable systems, and developing teams that take pride in operational excellence
- Highly organised and structured, with a passion for reliability, scalability, and continuous improvement
- Comfortable leading technical discussions while maintaining focus on people, process, and outcomes
- Motivated by building high-performing teams, with a strong sense of accountability and ownership
- A strong communicator who values clarity, process, and professional standards
- Strong experience in engineering leadership, with a track record of implementing process improvements and raising operational standards
- Proven experience leading platform, SRE, or DevOps teams working in a hybrid public / private cloud environment
- Familiarity with relevant technologies and platforms. Our production workloads are currently hosted in public cloud (AWS) and our dev/test workloads are self-orchestrated using clustered Proxmox as a private cloud. Our analytics workloads are distributed on bare metal using Spark, HBASE and HDFS. We make extensive use of terraform and ansible for IaC, our CI/CD uses GitHub Actions, our observability is provided via Datadog and we increasingly orchestrate our workloads using K8’s
- Skilled in agile delivery, incident management, and balancing operational priorities with longer term company objectives
- Thought leadership such that you can engage confidently with engineers on design decisions, architecture, and trade-offs
What the job involves
- 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 (AML) and terrorist financing (CTF), enabling organisations to enforce sanctions at scale to help combat rogue entities and state actors
- Ripjar’s Platform Engineering and Operations team builds and runs the foundational systems that power our products
- We ensure our services are reliable, secure, scalable, and observable - enabling our product engineering teams to innovate quickly and deliver mission-critical software that helps make the world safer
- Our customers – including global financial institutions, corporations and technology companies – 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
- The platform engineering team provides the resilient infrastructure, tooling, and operational excellence that make this possible
- As Engineering Manager of our Platform Team, you’ll lead a multidisciplinary group of eight engineers focused on delivering highly available, secure, and efficient public/private cloud platforms
- You’ll provide direction, structure, and clarity, ensuring the stability and scalability of Ripjar’s services while driving continuous improvement in our operational practices
- Lead and manage a team of platform and operations engineers delivering the public/private cloud infrastructure, automation, and observability capabilities that underpin Ripjar’s mission-critical products
- Coach, mentor, and develop your team through regular 1:1s, feedback, and tailored growth plans. You’ll champion psychological safety and a culture of accountability and clarity
- Own and drive security, reliability and scalability objectives to ensure our production systems are secure, highly available and fault tolerant
- Oversee operational excellence, including incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement of system reliability
- Refine and evolve platform processes, such as deployment pipelines, change management, and observability practices, to drive speed and stability as we deploy new capabilities
- Foster a DevOps culture, empowering engineering teams to own their services end-to-end while providing robust shared tooling and automation frameworks
- Guide your team as they set the direction for engineering in areas such as infrastructure as code (IaC), CI/CD, container orchestration, and cloud-native architectures
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Security, Data, and Delivery teams to ensure our infrastructure supports evolving product needs and compliance standards
- Contribute to the wider engineering community, sharing best practices around operational excellence, monitoring, and resilience
Our take
Ripjar provides a data intelligence platform, Labyrinth, that uses Artificial Intelligence to protect organisations against financial crime threats like money laundering, fraud, and funding terrorism. Labyrinth enables human analysts to make better-informed decisions with speed and accuracy, saving their clients’ costs and time.
Previous investments signify confidence in Ripjar's data intelligence technology and its ability to protect companies and governments from criminal activities that jeopardise their assets and prosperity. And it's no surprise, as Ripjar claims Labyrinth is the most sophisticated and advanced cyber-security solution on the market.
As economic uncertainty rises globally, so does the incidence of financial crime, particularly with the increasing shift to online transactions. Both tech companies and the UK government are turning to Ripjar to address these challenges. With a global client base exceeding 20,0000 and recent innovations, the company is well set to see further growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2020
$36.9m
SERIES B
Mar 2017
$4.9m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $41.8m
Company benefits
- Pension: Our company pension scheme is a great way of building a pot of money for your retirement and as your employer we match your contributions up to 4%
- Private Family Health insurance: We provide private medical insurance through Vitality Health. As well as giving staff general advice about eating greens and moving about, Vitality Health gives personal, achievable goals to get healthier with Vitality partners helping along the way with discounts, cashback and reward
- 25 days holidays: We offer candidates 25 days annual leave plus bank holiday per year, increasing to 30 after 5 years' service
- EMI Share Options: We offer an employee share option scheme to recognise and reward staff members for their support, service and contribution to the business
- Flexible Working: Employees have the option to work from one of our offices located in Cheltenham, Bristol or London or to work fully remote
- Wellbeing Allowance: We provide employees with a £500 allowance, paid quarterly in the sum of £125 per quarter to support a flexible, holistic approach to employees’ well-being
- Free lunch and snacks: There is a well-stocked pantry with food, snacks and drinks. Lunch is also provided and ranges from a selection of hot and cold food
Company HQ
Cheltenham, UK
Leadership
Jeremy Annis
(Co-Founder & CEO)Served as the company's CTO until 2021, and has been CEO since November 2018. Jeremy is a former Intelligence Professional and Data Scientist with the British government’s signals intelligence agency, GCHQ
Tom Griffin
(Co-Founder & COO)Served as the company's CEO until Jan 2019. Tom has a PhD in Engineering Mathematics, and prior to Ripjar was the Technical Director of GCHQ’s Engineering Department responsible for creating and sustaining the solutions that protect the UK from threats including terrorism, cyber and serious organised crime
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