Software Engineer - FinCrime

Join Zepz: Breaking Down Borders, Together

Our Meaningful Mission

At Zepz, we're all about breaking down barriers for our customers and our teammates. Our purpose is deeply personal; we provide a lifeline and deliver opportunities to cross-border communities that need it most through cutting-edge finance and tech. Zepz is the power behind WorldRemit and Sendwave, driven by the mission to celebrate the incredible impact migrants have, both at home and abroad. We're not just moving money; we're building a world that truly recognises and supports global connections.

Who You’ll Be Joining

We look for mission-driven builders who thrive in a fast-paced environment connected to a true purpose. We’re an always developing team of experts that enjoy problem-solving and bring clarity to tough challenges. At Zepz, we are Relentless Learners, always seeking feedback, and Responsible Owners, treating company resources like your own. We depend on Transparent Communicators who keep the team aligned through open, honest talk.

Our Core Commitments — What We Live By

• Integrity: We always do the right thing. It’s simple, but it’s the foundation of everything we build for our customers and each other.
• Outcomes: We work for our customers. Their success and prosperity are the results we focus on delivering.
• Velocity: We are fast! We maintain high energy levels and make smart decisions quickly, keeping us nimble and ahead of the curve.

Perks of Joining Our Team

We believe in empowering colleagues because we genuinely trust our team. Our culture is founded on this high trust, which naturally encourages the high ownership that drives us to meet our shared high expectations and deliver high performance. Our remote-first culture means you have the flexibility to work in your employing country wherever you feel the most focused and productive. This freedom comes with wonderful tailored, location-specific perks designed to support your whole life, not just your work. Think unlimited annual leave, great healthcare benefits, and employee discounts. We want you to thrive and focus entirely on making your biggest impact! In turn, we expect you to bring high ownership and commitment to your work. This is a place where we value trust and high performance, and we’ll provide the environment and support needed for you to excel.

About the role and team

Our engineering team is growing! We’re looking for Backend, Front End and Full stack engineers to join our team. Our team ensures we stay at the forefront of the fight against financial crime by building the essential tools and workflows that guarantee our products are used as intended. To navigate an evolving regulatory landscape, we combine:

• Custom Innovation: In-house data analytics, bespoke software, and tailored workflows.
• Elite Partnerships: Industry-leading third-party AI for advanced transaction monitoring and analysis.

By integrating these powerful resources, we protect our platform from criminal activity while ensuring legitimate users can send support safely and efficiently.

What you will own:

• Contribute to mobile applications to support financial crime workflows.
• 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

As a Backend Engineer: You are adept at developing and maintaining scalable backend services, APIs, and data pipelines (Python/Java).

As a Front End Engineer: You are passionate about building and maintaining customer-facing mobile experiences (Ideally React Native), to solve real-world problems.

As a Full stack Engineer: You have experience building and maintaining end-to-end mobile applications (Ideally React Native), and the services they rely on to meet our customer's needs at scale (Python/Java).

Code is: best practice compliant, well-tested, maintainable, scalable, and documented.

Experience developing cloud-native services (Ideally AWS).

Good understanding of observability and metrics: Proficient with dashboards, alerting, and monitoring for operational excellence and business metrics.

Excellent at working with product/engineering and managing stakeholder expectations.

Pragmatic: Understands balancing 'perfect' with 'done' without compromising essentials.

Skilled at priority balancing: Communicates impact clearly when accepting or declining tasks.

Believe in diversity and inclusivity.

Bonus Points if you:

• Have experience with Kotlin or Swift for native app development.
• Have strong familiarity with SQL, and data pipelines.
• Have experience working in the FinTech industry, particularly in a Financial Crime role (Fraud, AML, KYC, Sanctions Screening).

If you want to join us in our journey to help break barriers in financial access and improve lives globally, there's no better place or time to join. Our global team of 800+ people is spread across six continents. We aspire to hire the best mix of people from former Olympians to YouTube influencers and we speak over twenty languages. This incredible diversity isn’t a bonus; it’s the engine that lets us serve the world.