Engineering Manager, Ripjar
Occasional travel
Real-time intelligence for countering a wide range of threats
Be an early applicant
Real-time intelligence for countering a wide range of threats
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
Occasional travel
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 is an opportunity for someone who thrives on process improvement, accountability, and driving high standards across engineering functions
- Highly organised, clear-thinking, and structured in their approach to leadership
- Decisive and confident in setting direction while remaining open to feedback
- 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
- A natural mentor and team developer—you understand how to get the best from people while managing performance professionally
- Experience in agile environments and delivering production-grade software as part of a collaborative team
- Technically credible: while you won’t be coding day-to-day, you can engage confidently with engineers on design decisions, tooling, and technical trade-offs
- Comfortable with structured planning, performance management, and aligning engineering efforts with company objectives
- Familiarity with distributed systems and large-scale JavaScript codebases is a bonus
What the job involves
- As Engineering Manager, you’ll lead a high-performing and diverse team of software engineers tackling one of the most pressing challenges of our time: detecting and preventing financial crime at scale
- You’ll play a pivotal role in delivering technically sound, mission-critical solutions with a clear purpose and measurable impact
- You will ensure structure, clarity, and consistency in execution while mentoring and developing your team
- Lead and manage a multidisciplinary engineering team delivering reliable, scalable solutions to tackle money laundering and other financial crimes
- Own and drive product delivery in alignment with the roadmap ensuring milestones are met, blockers are removed, and the team is operating effectively
- Support and develop your team by conducting regular 1:1s, offering coaching, delivering consistent performance feedback, and creating professional development opportunities to ensure each team member has what they need to succeed. Champion a culture of accountability, clarity, and trust
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Owners, Technical Leads, Support, Delivery, and other Engineering Managers to shape the team roadmap and deliverables
- Take a proactive role in refining and evolving engineering processes, instilling operational discipline and clarity
- Contribute to the wider engineering community through leadership in agile practices, process improvements, and knowledge sharing
- Maintain a healthy engineering culture by encouraging psychological safety, clarity in roles, and structured decision-making
- While not a hands-on coding role, you'll engage in technical conversations and have a working knowledge of technologies such as Node.js, React, Python, Elasticsearch, Kafka, MongoDB, and Redis
- 35 hour working week
- 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 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
$36.7m
SERIES B
Mar 2017
$4.9m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $41.6m
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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