Description:

Ripjar is a company that specializes in developing software and data products to help combat serious financial crime.
The technology is used to identify criminal activities such as money laundering and terrorist financing, enabling organizations to enforce sanctions effectively.
The Engineering team at Ripjar builds software products aimed at making the world safer by mixing creativity with technology and engineering excellence.
The Labyrinth Intelligence platform offers users advanced tools for data ingest, analysis, and visualization, powered by AI and a robust RPA workflow engine.
The Labyrinth Screening product is relied upon by global financial institutions and corporations to monitor client records for risks against billions of data points in near-real time.
Ripjar's unique approach to name and adverse media screening has been recognized as a Category Leader in KYC Solutions by Chartis.
As a Principal Engineer, you will provide technology leadership and architectural oversight to product and platform engineering teams, reporting directly to the CTO.
You will collaborate with senior leaders, colleagues, customers, and partners, playing a key role in shaping technology priorities and developing a combined product and technology roadmap.
Key tasks include architectural oversight, leading product design and development, empowering engineers, contributing to standards and design patterns, and ensuring consistent application of architectural decisions.

Requirements:

The successful candidate should have at least 10 years of experience in building and designing software, demonstrating deep and broad experience as a natural technical leader.
Proven experience in developing distributed data-intensive systems and managing them in production is required.
The ability to quickly comprehend complex scenarios, articulate the architecture of complex systems, and unravel uncertainty and ambiguity is essential.
Clear communication skills, both written and verbal, are necessary to convey information at the appropriate level of detail for any audience.
Experience in building production systems based on OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, MongoDB, and/or Apache Kafka is required.
Bonus skills include expertise in Javascript or Python, experience deploying software into the cloud and on-premise, familiarity with microservices architectures, experience with Kubernetes, and domain experience in National Security, cyber security, or financial crime compliance.

The position offers a competitive base salary, dependent on experience.
Employees receive 25 days of annual leave plus their birthday off, increasing to 30 days after five years of service.
Remote working options are available.
Benefits include life assurance, pension salary sacrifice, and private family healthcare.
An Employee Assistance Programme is provided, along with company contributions to the pension.
Enhanced maternity and paternity pay is offered.
Employees will receive the latest technology, including a top-of-the-range MacBook Pro.
Offices are equipped with well-stocked pantries that provide food, snacks, and drinks when in the office.