Senior Scala Engineer - Decision Systems

Overview

What we’re all about.

It isn’t often you get to be part of a tech company that, since 2016, has been innovating the data analytics market in ways no-one else can. Our technology started out in FinTech, helping tackle serious criminal activity. Now, its potential is virtually limitless. Working at Quantexa isn\’t just intellectually stimulating. We’re a real team. Collaborating and constantly engineering better and better solutions. We’re ambitious, we think things through and we’re on a mission to discover just how far we go. 41% of our colleagues come from an ethnic or religious minority background. We speak over 20 languages across our 47 nationalities, creating a sense of belonging for all. If our incredible culture sounds like you, we’d love you to join us.

Opportunity

You\’ll be joining a team of Engineers working on Decision Systems, one of the key components of Quantexa’s Decision Intelligence platform. Our users leverage the Quantexa platform to make decisions, and scoring is how we help them hone in on behaviours and patterns in their data that matter to those decisions. The Decision Systems team is responsible for this scoring capability, aiming to enable our users to quickly and easily identify important real-world insights, such as evidence of financial crime or suspicious activity, from their complex, interconnected datasets. The Decision Systems team has successfully released multiple versions of our packaged, vertical scoring solution covering three different Financial Crime use-cases so far. This solution provides pre-built, use-case-specific scores so users can quickly deploy a complete detection and alerting system without having to design their own rules, and we’ll keep expanding to cover more of the many use-cases the Quantexa platform supports in future.

The role is focused on Scala development within a skilled engineering team. Typical tasks in the team are:

• Improving risk detection coverage by adding new Scores to detect additional types of Financial Crime
• Building new tooling to allow users to configure detection logic more easily and effectively
• Enhancing the platform so that existing Scores can be applied across a wider range of scenarios
• Improving the performance of the system so even the largest datasets can be analysed efficiently
• Optimising the tooling and pipelines used by the team to deliver high-quality software, such as increasing automated test coverage in our build pipelines
• There are 3 different sub-teams within Decision Systems, each focusing on different areas across the scoring capability within Quantexa. Specifics of the remit and differences between these teams can be shared upon request.

Stakeholder engagement is an essential part of this role, and you\’ll be working with our product team, delivery teams, clients and partners to design and build high quality solutions. You will be given the autonomy to see your tasks through the entire development life cycle, from requirements gathering all the way to software release, taking ownership of building new functionality that Quantexa projects will be using in the future.

We have a great team culture, with regular socials and a strong presence in Quantexa’s London office, whilst maintaining a flexible working policy allowing for regular home working. Come and be a part of the next stage of the growth of our team and Quantexa as a whole!

What do I need to have?

• Take pride in designing, building and delivering high quality well engineered solutions to complex problems
• Take a big picture approach to solving problems, taking care to ensure that the solution works well within the wider system
• Commercial Scala and Functional Programming experience (we will consider candidates without if their commercial background is relevant e.g. Java and they have some non-commercial Scala experience)
• Have experience of the full engineering life cycle, from design and implementation through to testing and deployment
• Passion and drive to grow within one of the UK’s fastest growing scale-ups
• Have experience mentoring Junior Engineers and setting best-practice within a team

Experience in the following would be beneficial:

• Working with big data technology, ideally Spark but others will also be useful such as Hadoop or Elasticsearch
• Experience with DevOps tooling and approaches (automation and tooling is something we are passionate about, we even have a dedicated Developer Tooling team)
• Building data processing pipelines for use in production batch systems, including either traditional ETL pipelines and/or analytics pipelines
• Manipulating data through cleansing, parsing, standardising etc, especially in relation to improving data quality/integrity

Why join Quantexa?

Our perks and quirks.

What makes you Q will help you to realize your full potential, flourish and enjoy what you do, while being recognized and rewarded with our broad range of benefits.

We offer:

• Competitive salary and Company Bonus
• Flexible working hours in a hybrid workplace & free access to global WeWork locations & events
• Pension Scheme with a company contribution of 6% (if you contribute 3%)
• 25 days annual leave (with the option to buy up to 5 days) + birthday off!
• Work from Anywhere Scheme: Spend up to 2 months working outside of your country of employment over a rolling 12-month period
• Family: Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, Adoption, or Shared Parental Leave
• Private Healthcare with AXA
• EAP, Well-being Days, Gym Discounts
• Free Calm App Subscription #1 app for meditation, relaxation and sleep
• Workplace Nursery Scheme
• Team\’s Social Budget & Company-wide Summer & Winter Parties
• Tech & Cycle-to-Work Schemes
• Volunteer Day off
• Dog-friendly Offices

Our mission.

We have one mission. To help businesses grow. To make data easier. And to make the world a better place. We’re not a start-up. Not anymore. But we’ve not been around that long either. What we are is a collection of bright, passionate minds harnessing complexities and helping our clients and their communities. One culture, made of many. Heading in one direction – the future.

It’s all about you.

It’s important to us that you feel welcome, valued and respected. After all, it’s your individuality and passion for what you do that will make you Q. We see that – which is why we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We’ve created and will continue to improve our inclusive and diverse work environment. Regardless of your race, beliefs, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, neurodiversity or ableness – whoever you are – if you are a passionate, curious and caring human being who wants to push the boundaries of what’s possible, then we want to hear from you.

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