[Hiring] Staff Engineer - Labyrinth Screening @Ripjar

Role Description

Staff Engineers at Ripjar are experts in one or more technology domains within Ripjar’s product set. You’ll be working on the Labyrinth Screening SaaS platform which has over 120 businesses using it around the world and growing rapidly. This requires exceptional technical knowledge, good leadership skills, and a deep understanding of software design and development principles.

Staff engineers will collaborate within and across engineering teams, working closely with engineering managers and other technical stakeholders to guide sound technical decisions and provide oversight for the teams they support. They also partner with senior technical leaders to shape Ripjar’s overall technology roadmap.

Your initial primary task is anticipated to be scaling our SaaS platform to handle many more companies, data feeds, data items and users. Driving the necessary changes to our architecture, testing, processes and culture to achieve this.

Key Tasks

• Own the software design and technology for a technical area of Labyrinth Screening.
• Collaborate with the wider engineering teams, technology, product leaders and customers to establish requirements, design and deliver high quality software.
• Incorporate engineering principles and methodologies into the broader organisational decision-making process to ensure problem definition, solution development and quality assurance are effectively integrated into our business outcomes.
• Take a leading role in Labyrinth Screening’s engineering organisation: contributing to standards, design patterns and technology approaches across our technical teams.
• Ensure consistent application of architectural decisions and guidelines across Ripjar's software products.

Qualifications

• Deep and broad experience in building and designing software.
• Experience working with big data or large scale data processing systems.
• Concrete knowledge and experience of software design patterns, industry best practices and architecture design.
• Demonstrated expertise in deploying software into production environments.
• Experience designing distributed systems that manage extensive data and/or workloads.
• Proven ability to lead, mentor, and engage wider technical teams to drive internal growth and career progression.
• Ability to communicate clearly - written, verbal, and visually - in the right level of detail for any audience.

Technical Skills

• Expertise in Software Engineering.
• Strong working knowledge of one or more of our tech stack, including: JavaScript, ElasticSearch, OpenSearch, MongoDB, Apache Kafka, EKS and Kubernetes.
• Experience with microservices architectures.
• Demonstrable experience in scaling a SaaS platform is highly desirable – particularly around evolving and improving a system architecture.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary DOE.
• 25 days annual leave + birthdays off, rising to 30 days after 5 years of service & Christmas shutdown.
• Fully remote working.
• 35 hour working week.
• Flexible working hours.
• Private Family Healthcare.
• Life Assurance.
• Pension salary sacrifice.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Company contributions to your pension.
• Enhanced maternity/paternity pay.
• The latest tech including a top of the range MacBook Pro.
• Well-stocked pantry with food, snacks and drinks when in the office.