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 and terrorist financing, and enables organisations to enforce sanctions at scale to help combat rogue entities and state actors.

Team Mission

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 customers - across big tech, world-leading companies and governments - use Labyrinth Intelligence to tackle global challenges in cyber security, financial crime and national security. Our platform provides users with cutting-edge tools for data ingest, analysis and visualisation, powered by built-in AI, a first-class RPA workflow engine and world-leading data security model.

What you'll be doing

As a Principal Engineer, you will be the senior technologist in the Labyrinth Intelligence team. You’ll work hand-in-hand with our engineering and product teams, leading the design and development of Labyrinth Intelligence and its underlying technology platform. 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 tech leads to empower engineers to deliver high quality software

You’ll play a lead role in the design and direction of our products, and you’ll engage with key customers to understand their needs and shape them into an effective product and technology roadmap.

As a senior technologist you’ll be central to Ripjar’s technical leadership. You’ll report directly to the CTO.

Key Tasks:

• Own the software design and technology roadmap for Labyrinth Intelligence.
• Collaborate with engineering teams, technology and product leaders and customers to establish requirements, design and deliver high quality software.
• 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.

Requirements

The successful candidate should have these skills:

• 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 experience designing distributed data-intensive systems.
• 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.

Bonus Skills

• Expertise in Javascript or Python
• Experience deploying software into the cloud and on-premise.
• Developing software products.
• It’s great if you’ve worked with EKS, Kubernetes, OpenSearch/ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Spark or NiFi.
• Experience with microservices architectures.
• Experience with AI/ML systems
• A current UK security clearance is highly desirable.

Benefits

Why we think you’ll love it here:

• Competitive base salary DOE
• 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days after 5 years of service.
• Hybrid working option for employees. Minimum of 2 days a week in the office
• Company Share Scheme.
• Private Family Healthcare.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Access to the O’Reilly Learning and Development platform to support your personal and professional growth.
• Company contributions to your pension.
• Enhanced maternity/paternity pay.
• The latest tech including a top of the range MacBook Pro.
• Offices in Cheltenham, London and Bristol.
• There is a well-stocked pantry with food, snacks and drinks when in the office.

Ripjar’s Commitment to Diversity

“Diversity is essential in the way we operate. Having people from different backgrounds, genders and experiences ensures that we make decisions with a truly global perspective. Diversity gives us strength in our technology, analysis and relationships.” - Maria Cox, Head of People Operations