Senior Software Engineer - Labyrinth Screening

Dubizzle Limited; Remote; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology firm specializing in financial crime solutions is seeking a passionate engineer. You will design and develop software to combat money laundering and fraud in real time, using modern technologies. This position offers a competitive salary, flexible working hours, and strong benefits, including private healthcare and a generous holiday allowance.

Benefits

Competitive salary DOE

25 days annual leave

Private Family Healthcare

Free food and drink

Fully remote working

Qualifications

• Experience with software development in JavaScript/TypeScript or Python.
• Understanding of distributed systems and event streaming.
• Familiarity with databases like MongoDB and Redis.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and ship features to combat financial crime.
• Shape scalable, multi-tenant architecture for large data handling.
• Upgrade and evolve DevOps tools for rapid delivery.

Skills

JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js, React)

Python

Distributed systems

Event streaming (Kafka, Kubernetes)

Databases (MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch)

DevOps practices

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Overview

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 enabling organisations to enforce sanctions at scale to help combat rogue entities and state actors.

Team mission:

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.

What you’ll be doing

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

The successful candidate should have these skills:

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.

• Ideally, you’ll bring experience with some of the following:
• 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

Benefits

• Competitive salary DOE
• 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days after 5 years of service.
• Christmas week shut down
• Your birthday as a holiday
• 35 hour working week only
• Private Family Healthcare.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Pension salary sacrifice
• Company contributions to your pension.
• Enhanced maternity/paternity pay.
• The latest tech including a top of the range MacBook Pro.
• Free food and drink
• Fully remote working