Senior Software Architect

3 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Ripjar Full time
About Us

Ripjar is a leading provider of software and data products that help governments and organisations combat serious financial crime.

Our technology enables organisations to identify criminal activity, such as money laundering and terrorist financing, and enforce sanctions at scale to combat rogue entities and state actors.

Our Mission

The Ripjar Engineering team builds software products that make the world safer. We work together, combining creativity with technology and engineering excellence to solve complex problems.

We work closely with our customers – including global financial institutions, corporations, and technology companies – to monitor millions of client records, counterparties, and prospects for sanctions, AML/CTF, and other risks against billions of data points in near-real time using our Labyrinth Screening product.

Ripjar's unique approach to name and adverse media screening – using AI Risk Profiles – provides our customers with world-leading capability recognised by Chartis as a Category Leader in KYC Solutions.

Job Description

This role offers an exciting opportunity to join our Labyrinth Screening team as a Senior Software Architect. You will be responsible for leading the design and development of Labyrinth Screening and its underlying technology platform.

You will work closely with senior leaders and colleagues across the organisation and collaborate with our customers and partners to deliver high-quality software solutions.

As a seasoned technologist with breadth and depth of experience, you will guide engineering teams through uncertainty, unravel complexity, and provide a clear vision for the future.

Key Responsibilities
  • Own the overall architecture and technology roadmap for Labyrinth Screening
  • Lead contributions to product design and development
  • Empower staff and senior engineers to own key elements of the product and architecture
  • Take a leading role in Ripjar's engineering organisation: contributing to standards, design patterns, and technology approaches across technical teams
Requirements

To be successful in this role, you will need:

  • A strong all-round technical ability with a demonstrable working knowledge of building, implementing, and maintaining complex Cloud/Hybrid/On-Premise systems
  • A strong engineering background and a natural technical leader with at least 10 years' experience building software
  • Industry expertise in financial crime compliance, preferably in the development of high-performance name screening solutions
  • Experience designing distributed data-intensive systems
  • The ability to quickly comprehend complex scenarios, unravel uncertainty, and articulate the architecture of complex systems
  • Excellent communication skills – written, verbal, and visual – to convey complex ideas to any audience
Salary and Benefits

We offer a competitive salary of £120,000 per annum, plus a range of benefits, including:

  • 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days after 5 years of service
  • Hybrid working option for employees
  • Life assurance
  • Company Share Scheme
  • Private Family Healthcare
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Company contributions to your pension
  • Enhanced maternity/paternity pay
  • The latest tech, including a top-of-the-range MacBook Pro


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