Senior Software Engineer, Encompass Corporation
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Know Your Customer regulation platform
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Know Your Customer regulation platform
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Share options scheme
101-200 employees
Company mission
To enable banks to create and maintain the identity of their corporate customers to create business opportunities, prevent financial crime and reduce regulatory risk.
Role
Who you are
- Backend Expertise - Strong proficiency in Java and Spring framework, with experience building scalable, maintainable applications and RESTful APIs; comfortable with Node.js tooling and build processes
- Frontend Familiarity - Understanding of frontend technologies (Angular/React) to support API design and assist with frontend work when needed
- Infrastructure & DevOps - Hands-on experience with containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes), cloud platforms (preferably AWS), and CI/CD pipeline configuration
- Database Design - Experience with NoSQL databases, data modelling, and understanding of distributed system patterns
- Quality Focus - Experienced in testing strategies across the stack, performance optimisation, and establishing monitoring/observability practices
- Problem-Solving - Ability to break down complex technical challenges, evaluate trade-offs, and make pragmatic architecture decisions
- Communication - Capable of articulating technical concepts to both technical teams and senior stakeholders, with experience engaging project stakeholders, taking ownership of individual features, and driving requirements gathering and technical planning
- Technical Leaders & Mentors - You enjoy sharing knowledge, guiding technical decisions, and helping other engineers grow. You're comfortable being a go-to person for complex technical challenges across the stack
- Pragmatic Decision-Makers - You balance technical excellence with business needs, making thoughtful trade-offs and taking ownership of outcomes. You're comfortable making architectural decisions that others will build upon
- Collaborative & Communicative - You work effectively across teams, translate technical concepts for various audiences, and contribute to planning discussions with both technical depth and business awareness
- Self-Motivated & Reliable - You manage complex, multi-faceted projects independently, prioritise effectively in a dynamic environment, and consistently deliver quality solutions on schedule
Desirable
- Python development experience, particularly for data processing or automation workflows
- Experience with LLM APIs and AI platforms (OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, prompt engineering)
- Experience with Agentic AI, machine learning integration, or intelligent automation systems
- Experience with microservices architecture and distributed system design
- Background in data engineering or analytics platforms
What the job involves
- As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you'll be a technical leader driving architecture decisions across our backend systems and infrastructure, with occasional frontend work
- You'll spend most of your time working on our Agent AI initiatives—integrating LLM platforms like OpenAI and Claude into our systems—building robust Java/Spring backends, or managing our Kubernetes infrastructure
- You'll be leading architectural discussions, mentoring developers across the stack, and ensuring our codebase scales effectively as we grow
- Working within a close-knit team of 4-5 engineers, you'll have opportunities to specialise in areas that align with your interests and our evolving needs
- Technical Leadership - Drive backend architecture decisions and infrastructure planning; establish development standards and best practices for the team
- Backend Development - Build and ship robust Java/Spring backend services and APIs, with occasional Angular or React work
- System Architecture - Design scalable solutions using our Kubernetes/Docker containerisation approach, NoSQL databases, and AWS services
- Cross-Team Collaboration - Work closely with frontend developers and other teams, ensuring robust API design and system integration
- Engineering Excellence - Champion code quality through comprehensive reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD best practices across our GitLab pipelines
- Team Development - Mentor engineers at various experience levels, sharing knowledge across technologies and helping develop technical decision-making skills
- Innovation & Research - Contribute to our Agent AI initiatives, exploring new approaches to process optimisation and intelligent automation
Application process
- Applied
- Talent Team Intro Call
- Shortlist
- First Stage Interview
- Final Interview
- Written Offer
- Hired
Our take
The Know Your Customer (KYC) process is vital to any modern business, but ensuring KYC compliance can be challenging, especially at scale. Encompass solves this problem with its automated KYC regulation platform.
Encompass's platform helps companies to prevent fraud and financial crime, while also saving them time and money. It primarily targets banks and financial institutions that have to comply with a multitude of regulations. Since launching in 2012, Encompass has opened offices in seven global locations, testament to its value and growth potential.
The need for KYC automation is rising rapidly, and Encompass, which raised an impressive $33M in funding in 2022, is poised to take advantage of this demand.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Mar 2022
$33m
LATE VC
Feb 2020
$2.6m
GRANT
Total funding: $41.2m
Company benefits
- Share Options plan: The Encompass employee Share Options plan is one of the benefits we are proudest to be able to offer. Every employee is an investor, and will benefit from our growth and success
- Carers and personal leave: We care about employees, not just about their lives at work, but as people. We offer 10 days per year that can be taken for you personally, or as a carer for a family member with physical or mental ill health. Our compassionate leave also covers pregnancy loss at any stage
- Coaching and mental health support: We’ve partnered with Sanctus to launch a mental health and wellbeing coaching service for the whole company
- Parental leave: Families come in all shapes and sizes. Our Adoption and Surrogacy pay and leave is the same as our maternity and paternity – six months full pay maternity leave plus full pension contributions for up to 12 months; four weeks full pay paternity leave
- Perfromance and Development: Our Philosophy: Performance at Encompass will be about results and impact. For employees to understand their performance we need to be completely transparent and clear about our expectations. This means that we need to define what "great" looks like to maintain and improve employees' performance in line with the employees and organisation's objectives. It's not a single activity, but rather a group of practices that should be approached holistically
- Volunteering leave: We offer two days paid leave for volunteering – one for you to use as an individual, and one Company Volunteering Day that helps us give back to the communities we are located in
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
Wayne Johnson
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously CEO & Founder of Software Associates, and VP Australia at eHealthcare Asia. Then worked as an Independent Advisor for over 7 years.
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