Senior Frontend Engineer

What you will be doing:

We are looking for driven, talented Senior Frontend Engineers to help us build our SaaS-based anti-money laundering solutions, which help organizations fight financial crime! We are building cutting-edge solutions that help reveal the truth for a safer world and stop money from ending up in the hands of criminals. 

As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you will 

• Be working alongside our ML engineers, data scientists, and other software engineers within the Tribe.
• Help us deliver new features and maintain our platform as we apply new technologies and scale our systems. 
• Join one of our agile teams and help us 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 the lead in these discussions and bring your own ideas as well as solicit and incorporate ideas from others in the team. 
• Contribute to sprint planning and be able to demo the features you’ve worked on to stakeholders.
• Write tests, and take ownership of the systems that ensure the quality of our code.
• Coach others in the team, sharing best practices and mentoring them.

Our Tech Stack:

• Our technology stack is designed to run on public cloud architectures, notably AWS and GCP. 
• Development is organised around Kotlin and Python for our backend languages and TypeScript with React for our frontend stack. 
• We make substantial use of relational database technologies, notably Postgres, Yugabyte.
• We also use an event-sourced model powered by Kafka for our communication bus and gRPC for our intra-service communication protocol. 
• We use modern observability solutions from Grafana Cloud, and deploy our code using ArgoCD

We have a strong emphasis on engineering excellence and strive to ship the best possible code and the best possible solutions to our customers.

About you:

As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you will

• Have 5+ years experience writing production-grade with Typescript with React (or similar) based applications
• Have awareness of a range of languages and paradigms, with the ability to coach/mentor juniors
• Have experience with high scale applications such as APIs dealing with large request volumes
• Have experience building and maintaining REST APIs
• Have experience with Docker/containerisation/Kubernetes/Jenkins and cloud infrastructure(AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Show ownership of software from idea inception to production
• Have experience writing unit tests and working with tooling for testing, build and deployment pipelines (setting it up is a plus) 
• Have working understanding of logging, monitoring and alerting tooling (setting it up is a plus)
• Show us good communication and written skills including experience producing technical documentation

Nice to haves:

• It would be nice if you had experience working in a multi-disciplinary team (Engineers, SREs, Product)
• Worked in an agile environment and have experience in pair programming

Education:

• BSc/BA degree in computer science, engineering or related discipline OR relevant years of experience in required skills.

About us:

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 crimes. 

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.

We have five global hubs in New York, London, Singapore, Lisbon, and Cluj-Napoca and are backed by Goldman Sachs, Ontario Teachers, Index Ventures, and Balderton Capital. 

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.

What’s in it for you? 

• Equity as we want you to have a part of what we are building 
• Unlimited Time Off Policy- A work-life balance and focus on our well-being are critical to keeping us performing at our best 
• We embrace a hybrid approach that requires employees to be in the office for two days a week. We strongly believe that this approach fosters collaboration and enables the building of meaningful relationships
• You will also get a new starter budget to kit out your home office
• Opportunity to work on innovative projects with smart-minded people keen to share their knowledge and continuously improve 
• Annual learning budget to drive your performance and career development