Job Overview
Company logo: https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/C4D0BAQEVOzSkcW3pWg/company-logo_400_400/company-logo_400_400/0/1673359103997/quantexa_logo?e=1749081600&v=beta&t=ZXkpgZ3MlHRt1sV-epYJ-zuOQL5jxTu8Zaj4Vasw3QM 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 can go. Nearly half of our colleagues come from an ethnic or religious minority background. We’re made up of people from 47 nationalities who speak over 20 languages. As a diverse mix of individuals, we make one big unstoppable team.
If our incredible culture sounds like you, we’d love you to join us.
What will you be doing?
In this role you will be working on building new back end and front-end features on the Quantexa Platform.
Our products process huge volumes of data with the ultimate aim of detecting anomalous and suspicious activity. The user interface we provide enables users to conduct complex investigations into fraud and financial crime cases and visualise complex networks of criminal activity.
On the back end, our services are primarily written in Scala and deployed as microservices. We are huge fans of functional and strongly typed programming, making use of libraries such as Cats and Shapeless. We also use Akka and Monix to help build scalable, highly performant, distributed services. We utilise techniques such as event sourcing and CQRS in our persistence layer to ensure our datastores are scalable and flexible.
The front end has been developed using modern front-end tools and frameworks such as TypeScript, Angular 6+ and ngrx and has been designed from the ground up to be highly extensible and allow for customisation to meet varying requirements.
Requirements
We are looking for candidates who:
Take pride in designing, building, and delivering high quality well engineered solutions to complex problemsHave experience functional programming using Scala AND/OR experience using modern front-end frameworks, ideally Angular 2+Have experience with the full engineering life cycle, from design and implementation through to testing and deploymentWant to build a rich, data driven applicationTake a big picture approach to solving problems, taking care to ensure that the solution works well within the wider systemLove working with the latest technologyPassion and drive to grow within one of the UK’s fastest-growing Start-ups
Experience in the following would be beneficial:
Working across the entire software stack from the server‐side and batch processing components to the front‐end web developmentWorking with Java and the JVMHas a keen eye for detail with regards to design and UXKnowledge working with any of the following technologies or libraries: Akka, Monix, Cats. Shapeless, Spring Boot, Elasticsearch, Gradle, Apache Spark, Hadoop, Docker, Kubernetes
Benefits
Why join Quantexa?
We know that just having an excellent glass door rating isn’t enough, so we’ve put together a competitive package as a way of saying thank you for all your hard work and dedication.
We offer:
Regularly benchmarked salary rates at the highest quarter following all principles of equal pay & company bonusFlexible working hours in a hybrid workplace & free access to global WeWork locations & eventsPension 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 periodWork from Home AllowanceFamily: Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, Adoption, or Shared Parental LeaveHealth & Wellbeing: Private Healthcare, EAP, Well-being Days, Calm App, Gym DiscountsTeam’s Social Budget & Company-wide Summer & Winter PartiesTech & Cycle-to-Work SchemesVolunteer Day offDog-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
Quantexa is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive and diverse work environment, where everyone feels welcome, valued, and respected. We want to hear from people who are passionate about their work and align with our values. Qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, colour, ancestry, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, citizenship, marital, disability, or veteran status. Whoever you are, if you’re a curious, caring, and authentic human being who wants to help push the boundaries of what’s possible, we want to hear from you.
Internal pay equity across departments is crucial to our global compensation philosophy. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of experience, education, training, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data.
Quantexa is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our talent acquisition processes. If you require support, please inform our Talent Acquisition Team.