Staff Engineer

Summary

Join Ripjar's Engineering team and contribute to building software products that enhance global safety. As a Staff Engineer, you will play a key role in scaling the Labyrinth Screening SaaS platform, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and driving architectural improvements. This position demands exceptional technical expertise, leadership skills, and a deep understanding of software design principles. You will be responsible for owning software design and technology for a technical area, collaborating with various teams, and incorporating engineering principles into organizational decision-making. Ripjar offers a competitive salary, remote work options, generous leave, flexible hours, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• You have deep and broad experience in building and designing software: you are an engineer and technical leader
• Concrete knowledge and experience of software design patterns, industry best practices and architecture design
• Demonstrated expertise in deploying software into production environments
• You have experience designing distributed systems that manage extensive data and/or workloads
• You can quickly comprehend complex scenarios, unravel uncertainty and ambiguity and articulate the architecture of complex systems
• Proven ability to lead, mentor, and engage wider technical teams to drive internal growth and career progression
• You can communicate clearly - written, verbal, and visually - in the right level of detail for any audience
• Expertise in JavaScript
• Experience working with OpenSearch/ElasticSearch
• Experienced with MongoDB and/or Apache Kafka

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• It’s great if you’ve worked with EKS, Kubernetes
• Experience with microservices architectures
• Demonstrable experience in scaling a SaaS platform is highly desirable – particularly around evolving and improving a system architecture

Benefits

• Base Salary of £100,000 per year DOE
• Remote working with occasional travel
• 25 days annual leave + your birthday off, rising to 30 days after 5 years of service
• Flexible working hours
• Life assurance
• Private Family Healthcare
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Company contributions to your pension