Data Engineer - Kotlin

Description

We are looking for talented Data Engineers to help us build our internal BI solutions as well as provide insights to our customers. By giving our customers actionable insights, we enable them to be agile with their compliance operations, iterating on how they tune their search and transaction monitoring parameters. You will join the Operational Insights team, be involved in data engineering at scale, and design and build systems that create insights and analytics from large volumes of data.

About us

Since launching in 2014, we have been on a mission to neutralize the risk of money laundering, terrorist financing, corruption, and other financial crime on a global scale. In that time, we have raised over $88m in funding, have four global hubs located in New York, London, Singapore, and Cluj-Napoca, and are backed by Ontario Teachers’, Index Ventures, and Balderton Capital.

We aim to grow to over 350 employees in the next 12 months, as we continue to fight the good fight against financial crime and help make compliance less painful for our client base of over 500 enterprises across 75 different countries. We're leveraging game-changing tech to help us on our mission as the financial industry’s leading source of AI-driven financial crime risk data and detection technology.

No fight against crime is complete without the right values, and we take ours very seriously!

We are looking for people to join our team who share our core values...

Focus on the Team - We're Collaborative, Human, and Humble

Kaizen - We're Curious, Proactive and Agile

Deliver Results - We're Tenacious, Accountable and Focused 

We can only defeat financial crime if we have the right people with the right values in place to do so, and we're committed to investing in passionate people who are experts in their field. Our culture and working environment are second to none - Don't believe us? See what our employees have to say on Glassdoor.

The Role

You will join as a Data Engineer within the Platform and Core Services group. We are looking for someone with demonstrable experience working with Data Warehouses and understands the design patterns and subtleties behind the different flavours of databases, computation engines, message queues and workflow orchestrators used in the Data Engineering space. When building solutions, they should be able to bring real-world experience to implementation and problem solving to help drive and implement a cohesive vision.

You will join one of our empowered teams and help contribute to the right technical and design decisions as will being an important part of implementing a solution which enables us to continue to evolve and scale our systems. You will be accountable for delivering parts of the system, and to discuss ideas collaboratively and agree solutions with your team.

We pride ourselves on having an open and collaborative environment within the teams and as well as working on your code, you will help others with their work through review and paired working. You will contribute to the overall success of the team, with a focus on the team’s successful delivery rather than solely at an individual level.

Within the team, we look to engineers to take responsibility for the quality of their code.  Engineers are expected to write tests, add observability and take ownership of the systems to ensure overall quality. You will not only take part in this but also support others in the team to ensure the overall system conforms to a high quality.

What does success look like in your first 6 months?

• You contributed to delivering your team's objectives to a high quality. You've helped achieve this by both delivering your own tasks and also collaborating with other team members to support the overall objectives and milestones. You've also utilised other engineers outside the team where relevant, and taken steps to include them.

• You can explain to others the main problems we're solving for our stakeholders with regards to the product capabilities the team owns, including where it integrates with other ComplyAdvantage systems. You know some of our customers and understand their biggest pain points. You know our future direction and participate in sprint reviews, design meetings and keep up to date with the product research.

• You will have contributed your ideas to the architectural evolution of the platform and seen your ideas adopted.

• You are continuously keeping up to date with best practices and evolutions of technology relevant to the systems you work on, as well as building up a knowledge of the technologies and systems used