Senior Software Engineer - FinCrime

About Zepz

Zepz powers two leading global remittance brands, WorldRemit and Sendwave, to build the next generation of cross-border payments. Serving over 9 million customers across 4,000 corridors, Zepz is transforming how money moves across borders by making it faster, safer and more convenient. Its innovative digital solutions are designed to break down financial barriers and expand access to better financial tools. Zepz operates across a broad global footprint, connecting the global north and south and enabling migrants to support loved ones, fuel local economies and build better futures.

Come join us!

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Our Commitments:

1. Velocity - We are fast
2. Outcomes - We work for our customers
3. Integrity - We do the right thing

This team is on the front lines, building the essential tools, services, and workflows that ensure our products are used as intended. We work to help people in need while actively identifying and preventing misuse. To do this, we combine our own custom software and data analytics with powerful, industry-leading third-party products for AI and transaction monitoring.

What you will own:

• 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.

What you bring to the table:

• You have strong experience building backend services/APIs in Python. A large part of the codebase you will be working on is currently in Python. 
• The code you write:
1.  Follows industry best practices.
2.  Is well tested.
3.  Is maintainable.
4.  Is scalable.
5.  Is well documented.
• You have a good understanding of observability and metrics: Dashboards and alerting are your bread and butter and you understand the value in monitoring the systems you build not only in terms of infrastructure and operational excellence, but also for business metrics.
• You are able to work well with both product and engineering teams, and excel at managing stakeholders, and their expectations.
• You are pragmatic, and understand that perfect is the enemy of done, but also that there are some things that cannot be compromised on.
• You are skilled at balancing new requests with current priorities, knowing when to decline a task and when to embrace it by clearly communicating the impact on the existing plan.
• You have an open mind with respect to diversity and inclusivity. Our team (and customers) come from all over the world.

Bonus points if you :

• Have exposure to Java and Spring or are willing to learn on the job.
• Have strong familiarity with SQL
• Experience with the following tools and frameworks:
1.  Apache Airflow and or  data pipelines.
2. Celery
3. FastAPI and/or Flask
4. Postgres (AWS Aurora Ideally)
5. DynamoDB
• Have experience working in the FinTech industry, particularly in a Financial Crime role (Fraud, AML, KYC, Sanctions Screening).

What you’ll get from us 

Please note that the benefits below will apply to permanent roles.  

We have five core benefits for our talent in the US, UK, Philippines, Poland, and South Africa. specifically:

• Unlimited Annual Leave: Feel free to make the most of your time off and maintain a healthy work-life balance! 
• Private Medical Cover: ​​You can opt-in to a Private Medical Insurance scheme. This provides you with access to thorough medical coverage, so you can feel confident in your health and well-being.              
• Retirement: We offer pension schemes to help you plan for and secure your future. 
• Life Assurance: Life assurance is available to give you peace of mind and protect your loved ones in case of the unexpected.
• Parental Leave: We offer competitive parental leave schemes to ensure you are spending as much quality time with your new bundle of joy as possible. 

We are also remote-first as an organisation, offering flexibility for you to work where you need to be most productive. In addition to the above, you will discover that we have a range of secondary perks (such as the cycle-to-work scheme and employee discounts) depending on your location, to help you thrive at Zepz!  

Why choose Zepz? 

• Our team of over 800 employees is fully distributed across the world. We are working from coffee shops, homes, and co-working spaces — making us one of the larger fully distributed growth-stage startups in the world but we also offer workspace in our talent cluster locations - spaces we can meet, collaborate and connect.
• We are proud parents, community organizers, farmers, band members, yoga teachers, YouTube influencers, former Olympians, and serial entrepreneurs.
• We collectively speak over twenty languages, including Akuapem, Amharic, Bengali, Ewe, Fante, Ga, Igbo, Kalenjin, Luganda, Oromo, Somali, Swahili, Wolof, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.
• At Zepz, embodying our commitments binds us together. We are collectively passionate about striving to achieve our vision and purpose -  to continue to provide the best service to our users.

Ready to Apply?

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. If interested, please submit your resume along with a cover letter (optional), highlighting why your experience demonstrates you meet the requirements of the role. Please also indicate the countries in which you have work authorization.

Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job. But we'll let you in on a secret: there's no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. Zepz is a place where everyone can thrive. 

So however you identify and whatever background you bring with you, and if at all you might need any form of support to make the process as comfortable as possible, please let us know and give us a shot by applying. We want you to be excited to wake up to make an impact every day.