Job Overview
Application Deadline: 4 April 2025
Department: Engineering
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Belfast
Reporting To: Chris Kacerguis
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!
What You’ll Be Doing
Assuming direct development responsibility for developing, debugging and unit testing of product features in accordance with internal procedures and standardsWhen required, diagnosing, and solving functional and performance/scalability
issuesHelping to improve technical practices towards a continuously releasable end-state, especially in terms of GitHub, CI/CD, and development processes
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 changeKnowledge
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 GoTechnologies & Tools – Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHubAzure and AWS or GCP and data processing in cloudDatabase and SQL development experience,
especially PostGreSQLCollaborative team player with strong (written and verbal) communication skillsComfortable 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, JavaAnalytics engines, especially ElasticSearchKeyCloakETL toolsPerformance engineering principles and toolsCI/CD and DevOps toolingOpen Telemetry and related observability tools and
techniques, especially Grafana and Prometheus
Why Napier?
Our people are our most valuable asset, as such, we offer the below benefits to all Naperians
Group life assurance policyIncome protections policyAccess to our employee wellbeing programmeAn extra day off to celebrate your birthdayEnhanced Maternity & Paternity leaveAn open and flexible culture that allows
you to work in the best way for youPrivate health and dental insurance
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