Scala Engineer

at  Napier AI

DESCRIPTION

Napier is a new breed of financial crime compliance technology specialist. Our AI enhanced platform – Napier Continuum – transforms compliance from legal obligation to competitive edge.
At Napier, our mission is to fight financial crime through automation & AI. We believe that by automating the detection and prevention of financial crime, we can make the world a safer place for everyone.
Collaboration, innovation and wonderful people are just some of the reasons to bring your career to Napier. Our culture is shaped by our core values that promote equality, creativity, and opportunity in everything we do.
After successfully securing a £45million investment to fuel our ongoing growth and to further invest in our AI products, we are currently building out our Tech Hub in Belfast - this is a super exciting time to join Napier in Belfast as we expand.
The Scala Engineer is a key member of our core Engineering teams, building our powerful, flexible financial crime detection engine that is used by top Financial Institutions globally to quickly and easily apply predefined scenarios or Machine Learning algorithms to customer, and transaction data.
In this role, you (Scala Engineer) will be responsible for building high-quality features in alignment with Napier’s overall technical vision and architecture, following appropriate engineering practices (such as CI/CD, high automation and test coverage, and trunk-based development), continually improving technical debt, and evolving the system to meet changing needs and market opportunities. You’ll be a passionate hands-on technologist who is ready to do what’s needed to keep technical quality high. A desire to teach, to learn and to help grow a culture of delivery excellence in Napier is welcome.
You will also work with Napier tech leads, Solution Architects, Product Owners, and other stakeholders to help design technical solutions in support of Napier’s wider business and technical goals. Your creativity and innovative ideas will be encouraged and supported - we are ready to hear your ideas!

DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES?

• At least 4 years of commercial experience in an engineering role working on microservice-based solutions – but we are open-minded in what industry or sector (does not have to be compliance & AML)
• Experience in Agile delivery environments - a track record of constantly looking for ways to do things better and an excellent understanding of the mechanisms necessary to successfully implement change
• Knowledge of DevOps and infrastructure engineering principles and practices

SKILLS

These skills are essential to be successful in this role

• Hands-on programming experience – Scala and either Rust or Go
• Technologies & Tools – Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub
• Azure and AWS or GCP and data processing in cloud
• Database and SQL development experience, especially PostGreSQL
• Collaborative team player with strong (written and verbal) communication skills
• Comfortable working with remote engineering teams and distributed delivery models

We’d be thrilled if you also have experience with, and are keen to grow your skills in, some of these other areas:

• Programming Languages – Kotlin, Java
• Analytics engines, especially ElasticSearch
• KeyCloak
• ETL tools
• Performance engineering principles and tools
• CI/CD and DevOps tooling
• Open Telemetry and related observability tools and techniques, especially Grafana and Prometheus

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

• Assuming direct development responsibility for developing, debugging and unit testing of product features in accordance with internal procedures and standards
• When required, diagnosing, and solving functional and performance/scalability issues
• Helping to improve technical practices towards a continuously releasable end-state, especially in terms of GitHub, CI/CD, and development processes

These skills are essential to be successful in this role

• Hands-on programming experience – Scala and either Rust or Go
• Technologies & Tools – Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub
• Azure and AWS or GCP and data processing in cloud
• Database and SQL development experience, especially PostGreSQL
• Collaborative team player with strong (written and verbal) communication skills
• Comfortable working with remote engineering teams and distributed delivery model