Junior Software Engineer

What you will be doing: 

We are looking for driven, talented  Junior Software Engineer 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 from ending up in the hands of criminals.

As a Junior Software Engineer, you will 

• Work alongside our ML Engineers, Data Scientists, and other Software Engineers within your squad.
• Seek out, deliver, and maintain small projects or surface-specific tasks with the help of more senior engineers. 
• Participate in feature design and bug fixes under direct supervision
• Write, test, and document code as per our guidelines 
• Take ownership of small projects or smaller parts of large projects
• Execute Engineering tasks or product improvements with the guidance of other senior members of the team. For example, Engineers, Designers, Product Managers
• Escalate matters when appropriate without getting into rabbit holes or being blocked for long time periods. 

Our Tech Stack:

• Our technology stack is designed to run on public cloud architectures, notably AWS and GCP
• We use Python and Kotlin in the backend and TypeScript, ES6 and React in the frontend
• We make substantial use of relational database technologies, notably Postgres, large scale noSQL technologies such as Cassandra, as well as Spark and cloud based object stores for big data processing
• We also use an event-sourced model powered by Kafka for our communication bus and gRPC for our intra-service communication protocol
• Our data and AI teams use a wide range of machine learning libraries, large scale hybrid columnar data stores such as Databricks, Spark for stream and big data processing in combination with Kafka, as well as some graph databases
• We use modern observability solutions (such as Datadog or Grafana) and deploy our code using ArgoCD

About you:

As a Junior Software Engineer, you will have:

• Motivation to work with Python
• Have a good understanding of discipline basics. This may have been gained in a educational or work place setting 
• Be keen to learn and actively reaches out to people for mentorship and learning
• Seek out regular feedback from peers (other Engineers and Product Managers) and incorporate this in your day-to-day work
• Collaborate with your team to solve problems

What’s in it for you?

• 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 (prorated based on start date) to drive your performance and career development. 
• Equity as we want you to have a part of what we are building 

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 crime. 

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.

At ComplyAdvantage diversity fuels our rocket ship and our commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, religion, identity and experience drives us forward every day. We encourage everyone to apply and aspire to consider every application fairly.

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