Senior Software Engineer, Ripjar
Labyrinth Screening
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
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
- JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js, React) or Python
- Distributed systems and event streaming (Kafka, Kubernetes)
- Databases and search indexes (MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch)
- Modern DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
- We’re looking for passionate engineers who love solving complex problems and building great software. You don’t need to tick every box — if you’re curious, adaptable, and ready to grow, we want to hear from you
What the job involves
- Our engineering team builds software that makes the world a safer place. We work collectively to use technology, creativity and engineering best practice to solve problems that nobody else can
- Join us in the fight against global financial crime. At Ripjar, our engineers are building Labyrinth Screening — an advanced AI-powered platform that helps major financial institutions detect and prevent money laundering and fraud in real time
- Your work will directly protect people and organisations from criminal networks around the world
- You’ll contribute to our customers’ success by designing, developing and shipping features to prevent money laundering and financial crime
- Some of the key technology challenges facing the team this year include:
- Developing our scalable, multi-tenant, cloud-based SaaS-first architecture
- Upgrading our DevOps tooling to ship code fast with certainty
- Harnessing the power of Labyrinth Screening to work with new types of data at scale within Ripjar’s wider financial crime solutions
- As a Software Engineer on the Labyrinth Screening team, you’ll:
- Design, develop, and ship cutting-edge features that stop criminals in their tracks
- Shape our scalable, multi-tenant, cloud-first architecture to handle billions of data points
- Upgrade and evolve our DevOps ecosystem to deliver code rapidly and confidently
- Collaborate across disciplines — engineering, product, UX, and operations— to turn bold ideas into reliable, production-ready solutions
- Continuously improve our platform’s performance, reliability, and developer experience
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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