Senior Python Software Engineer

<p><strong>What you will be doing</strong></p> <p>We are looking for driven, talented Senior Python Software Engineers to help us build our SaaS-based anti-money laundering solutions, which help organisations fight financial crime! We are building cutting edge solutions that help reveal the truth for a safer world and stop money ending up in the hands of criminals. </p> <p>As a Senior Python Software Engineer, you will </p> <ul> <li>Be working alongside our ML engineers, data scientists and other software engineers within the tribe. </li> <li>Write new features that enable our platform to understand articles in the media, extract information about individuals, apply ML models to categorise their actions, and merge all this with existing data we hold. Your work will allow our customers to find out who has done something bad, what they did, and when.</li> <li>Join one of our scrum teams and help us to make the right technical and architectural decisions as we evolve and scale our systems. As a Senior, we will look to you to sometimes take a lead in these discussions and bring your own ideas as well as solicit and incorporate ideas from others in the team.</li> <li>Write tests, and take ownership of the systems that ensure the quality of our code. </li> <li>Coach others in the team, sharing best practices and mentoring them. </li> </ul> <p><strong>Our Tech Stack</strong></p> <ul> <li>Our technology stack is designed to run on public cloud architectures, notably AWS and GCP. </li> <li>Development is organised around Kotlin and Python for our backend languages and TypeScript/ES6+React for our frontend stack. </li> <li>We make substantial use of relational database technologies, notably Postgres and also use of large scale noSQL technologies such as Cassandra</li> <li>We also use an event-sourced model powered by Kafka for our communication bus and gRPC for our intra-service communication protocol. </li> <li>For our data and AI teams, experience of machine learning development and very large scale columnar data stores (e.g. Apache HBase, Databricks) is key, as well as experience of large scale data streaming technologies such as Apache Spark, graph databases (e.g. Neo4j, AWS Neptune, TigerGraph)</li> <li>We use modern observability solutions from Datadog and deploy our code using ArgoCD</li> </ul> <p>We have a strong emphasis on engineering excellence and strive to ship the best possible code and the best possible solutions to our customers.</p> <p><strong>About you</strong></p> <p>As a Senior Python Software Engineer, you will have</p> <ul> <li>Experience writing production grade applications</li> <li>Awareness of a range of languages and paradigms, with the ability to coach/mentor juniors.</li> <li>Experience with high scale applications such as APIs dealing with large request volumes, or data processing pipelines</li> <li>Experience with Docker/containerisation and cloud infrastructure</li> <li>Ownership of software from idea inception to production.</li> <li>Experience working with tooling for testing, build and deployment pipelines (setting it up is a plus) </li> <li>Working understanding of logging, monitoring and alerting tooling (setting it up is a plus).</li> <li>Experience of coaching or mentoring more junior members of an engineering team (nice to have)</li> <li>Good communication and written skills including experience producing technical documentation</li> </ul> <p><strong>About us </strong></p> <p>ComplyAdvantage is the financial industry’s leading source of AI-driven financial crime risk data and detection technology. Our mission is to neutralise the risk of money laundering, terrorist financing, corruption, and other financial crime. </p> <p>More than 1000 companies rely on us to understand the risk of who they’re doing business with through the world’s only global, real-time database of people and companies. Our solutions identify thousands of risk events daily from millions of structured and unstructured data points.</p> <p>We have four global hubs in New York, London, Singapore, and Cluj-Napoca and are backed by Goldman Sachs, Ontario Teachers, Index Ventures, and Balderton Capital. </p> <p>Since 2014, we have raised over $100 million in funding, and in 2022 alone grew by over 40% to over 500 people globally. Over the next 12 months, as our revenue increases, we plan to increase to 600.</p> <p><strong>What’s in it for you?</strong></p> <ul> <li>Competitive Salary</li> <li>Equity as we want you to have a part of what we are building </li> <li>Unlimited Time Off Policy- A work-life balance and focus on our well-being are critical to keeping us performing at our best</li> <li>Hybrid working- We want you to strike a balance and be where you do your best work.  You will work with your manager to agree on what is best for you and your team</li> <li>Opportunity to work on innovative projects with smart like-minded people who are keen to share their knowledge and continuously improve</li> <li>Annual le