Principal Software Engineer, Ripjar
Real-time intelligence for countering a wide range of threats
Open for applications
Real-time intelligence for countering a wide range of threats
101-200 employees
Open for applications
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
- You have deep and broad experience in building and designing software: you are an engineer and a natural technical leader. As a guideline, you’ll have at least 10 years’ experience building software
- You have proven experience developing distributed data-intensive systems and running them in production
- You can quickly comprehend complex scenarios, unravel uncertainty and ambiguity and articulate the architecture of complex systems
- You can communicate clearly - written, verbal, and visually - in the right level of detail for any audience
- You’ve built production systems based on OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, MongoDB and/or Apache Kafka
Desirable
- Expertise in Javascript or Python
- Experience deploying software into the cloud and on-premise
- Experience with microservices architectures
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Domain experience in National Security, cyber security or financial crime compliance
What the job involves
- As a Principal Engineer, you’ll provide technology leadership and architectural oversight to our product and platform engineering teams
- As a senior technologist you’ll be central to Ripjar’s technical leadership
- You’ll report directly to the CTO
- 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 leading role in shaping our technology priorities
- You’ll also be actively engaged with our product team, and you’ll engage with product managers and key customers to understand their needs and develop an effective combined product and technology roadmap
- Architectural oversight over Ripjar’s software platforms
- Leading contribution to product design and development
- Empowering Staff and Senior engineers to own key elements of the product and architecture
- Empowering technology and product leaders and teams to design and deliver high quality software products
- Take a leading role in Ripjar’s engineering organisation: contributing to standards, design patterns and technology approaches across our technical teams
- Ensure consistent application of architectural decisions and guidelines across Ripjar's software products
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
$37.8m
SERIES B
Mar 2017
$4.9m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $42.7m
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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