[Hiring] Software Engineer - FinCrime @the role and team

Role Description

Join Zepz: Breaking Down Borders, Together

Our engineering team is growing! We’re looking for Backend, Front End and Full stack engineers to join our team. Our team ensures we stay at the forefront of the fight against financial crime by building the essential tools and workflows that guarantee our products are used as intended. To navigate an evolving regulatory landscape, we combine:

• Custom Innovation: In-house data analytics, bespoke software, and tailored workflows.
• Elite Partnerships: Industry-leading third-party AI for advanced transaction monitoring and analysis.

By integrating these powerful resources, we protect our platform from criminal activity while ensuring legitimate users can send support safely and efficiently.

What you will own:

• Contribute to mobile applications to support financial crime workflows.
• Build and maintain software to automate and improve Zepz's Financial Crime workflows, tooling, and systems for both brands.
• Look after and improve our existing Anti-Money Laundering, and customer screening solutions.
• Collaborate with other teams to help ensure that the products and features they are building aren’t enabling criminals.

Qualifications

• As a Backend Engineer: You are adept at developing and maintaining scalable backend services, and APIs, and data pipelines (Python/Java).
• As a Front End Engineer: You are passionate about building and maintaining customer-facing mobile experiences (Ideally React Native), to solve real world problems.
• As a Full stack Engineer: You have experience building and maintaining end to end mobile applications (Ideally React Native), and the services they rely on to meet our customer's needs at scale (Python/Java).
• Code is best practice compliant, well-tested, maintainable, scalable, and documented.
• Experience developing cloud native services (Ideally AWS).
• Good understanding of observability and metrics: Proficient with dashboards, alerting, and monitoring for operational excellence and business metrics.
• Excellent at working with product/engineering and managing stakeholder expectations.
• Pragmatic: Understands balancing 'perfect' with 'done' without compromising essentials.
• Skilled at priority balancing: Communicates impact clearly when accepting or declining tasks.
• Believe in diversity and inclusivity.

Requirements

• Bonus Points if you have experience with Kotlin or Swift for native app development.
• Have strong familiarity with SQL, and data pipelines.
• Have experience working in the FinTech industry, particularly in a Financial Crime role (Fraud, AML, KYC, Sanctions Screening).

Benefits

• Unlimited annual leave.
• Great healthcare benefits.
• Employee discounts.

Company Description

At Zepz, we're all about breaking down barriers for our customers and our teammates. Our purpose is deeply personal, we provide a lifeline and deliver opportunities to cross-border communities that need it most through cutting edge finance and tech.

Zepz is the power behind WorldRemit and Sendwave, driven by the mission to celebrate the incredible impact migrants have, both at home and abroad. We're not just moving money; we're building a world that truly recognizes and supports global connections.

Our vibrant and truly diverse culture is built on three core commitments, that guide how we work and interact:

• Integrity: We always do the right thing.
• Outcomes: We work for our customers.
• Velocity: We are fast!

Our remote-first culture means you have the flexibility to work in your employing country wherever you feel the most focused and productive.

Our global team of 800+ people is spread across six continents. We aspire to hire the best mix of people from former Olympians to YouTube influencers and we speak over twenty languages. This incredible diversity isn't a bonus; it's the engine that lets us serve the world.

Ready to Apply? Let’s Go.