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Senior Software Engineer - AI
Zepz
GBR
Full-time
Senior
Hybrid
Discovered 1 weeks ago
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Technical Skills
- Several years of experience building backend services at scale.
- Strong understanding of modern JVM development centered around Java and the Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot).
- Proficiency in Java; interest in or experience with Kotlin or Python is a plus.
- Experience designing and operating REST/gRPC APIs, event-driven and streaming systems (e.g. Kafka), and relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL).
- Comfort integrating and operating third-party vendor platforms, where you own the reliability of something you don't control.
- Experience working with large transaction and event datasets, and enough SQL to investigate a question yourself rather than wait on someone.
- Ability to work with AI in a safe, structured environment.
- Ability to work with tools like Grafana and Loki for debugging and fault finding.
- Some understanding of Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and AWS cloud is advantageous, as well as technologies like Terraform.
- Technical Execution
- You take pride in writing readable, well-designed, and well-tested software.
- You will improve code structure and have an impact on architecture.
- You will actively review tech designs and code from others.
- You'll improve monitoring and the health of your team's systems.
- You'll participate in on-call and production support — triaging incidents, restoring service, and following through on remediation so issues don't recur.
- What you will focus on
- Designing and building the services that generate, enrich, and route financial crime alerts across both brands.
- Building agentic workflows that investigate alerts end to end, and the evaluation harnesses that prove they are safe to trust.
- Integrating and owning the reliability of third-party monitoring and screening platforms.
- Turning analyst workflow pain into tooling, working directly with the compliance teams who use it.
- Making the whole thing auditable, because every automated decision has to be explainable to a regulator after the fact.
- Nice to have/ Bonus Points if you have
- Experience with transaction monitoring, screening, or case management platforms (Unit21, Actimize, ComplyAdvantage, LexisNexis or comparable).
- Experience building or operating rules engines, risk scoring, or automated decisioning systems.
- Familiarity with AML and CFT regulatory requirements in international payments, including regulatory reporting obligations.
- Experience in fintech or other regulated, high-availability environments.
- Familiarity with any of the communities we serve.
- AI Literacy & Tools As Zepz continues to build AI into how we work, we expect everyone to engage with it as a core part of their role. For this position we are looking for:
- A genuine curiosity about AI and how it can be applied in your area of work — from accelerating analysis and insight generation, to improving how we design and deliver processes and communications.
- Practical experience using AI tools in a professional context — whether to connect information, draft content, build frameworks, or create insights from data. We want people who actively use AI to increase productivity, not those who are waiting to be told to.
- Strong AI literacy — an understanding of what AI assistants can and cannot do, how to prompt effectively, and how to critically evaluate AI-generated output before using it.
- Awareness of the ethical considerations and responsible use of AI in the workplace, particularly in the context of sensitive data, customer experience, and compliance.
- Prior experience using Claude (Anthropic) is a nice-to-have but not essential — what matters most is that you are genuinely engaged with AI as a tool, comfortable experimenting, and eager to share what works with your wider team
- 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. Ready to Apply? Let’s Go.
Qualifications
- Several years of experience building backend services at scale.
- Strong understanding of modern JVM development centered around Java and the Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot).
- Experience designing and operating REST/gRPC APIs, event-driven and streaming systems (e.g. Kafka), and relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL).
- Comfort integrating and operating third-party vendor platforms, where you own the reliability of something you don't control.
- Experience working with large transaction and event datasets, and enough SQL to investigate a question yourself rather than wait on someone.
- Ability to work with AI in a safe, structured environment.
- Ability to work with tools like Grafana and Loki for debugging and fault finding.
- Some understanding of Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and AWS cloud is advantageous, as well as technologies like Terraform.
- Technical Execution
- You take pride in writing readable, well-designed, and well-tested software.
- You will improve code structure and have an impact on architecture.
- You will actively review tech designs and code from others.
- You'll improve monitoring and the health of your team's systems.
- You'll participate in on-call and production support — triaging incidents, restoring service, and following through on remediation so issues don't recur.
- What you will focus on
- Designing and building the services that generate, enrich, and route financial crime alerts across both brands.
- Building agentic workflows that investigate alerts end to end, and the evaluation harnesses that prove they are safe to trust.
- Integrating and owning the reliability of third-party monitoring and screening platforms.
- Turning analyst workflow pain into tooling, working directly with the compliance teams who use it.
- Making the whole thing auditable, because every automated decision has to be explainable to a regulator after the fact.
- Experience with transaction monitoring, screening, or case management platforms (Unit21, Actimize, ComplyAdvantage, LexisNexis or comparable).
- Experience building or operating rules engines, risk scoring, or automated decisioning systems.
- Familiarity with AML and CFT regulatory requirements in international payments, including regulatory reporting obligations.
- Experience in fintech or other regulated, high-availability environments.
- Familiarity with any of the communities we serve.
- AI Literacy & Tools
- A genuine curiosity about AI and how it can be applied in your area of work — from accelerating analysis and insight generation, to improving how we design and deliver processes and communications.
- Practical experience using AI tools in a professional context — whether to connect information, draft content, build frameworks, or create insights from data. We want people who actively use AI to increase productivity, not those who are waiting to be told to.
- Strong AI literacy — an understanding of what AI assistants can and cannot do, how to prompt effectively, and how to critically evaluate AI-generated output before using it.
- Awareness of the ethical considerations and responsible use of AI in the workplace, particularly in the context of sensitive data, customer experience, and compliance.
- 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.
- Ready to Apply? Let’s Go.
Preferred Qualifications
- Proficiency in Java; interest in or experience with Kotlin or Python is a plus.
- Nice to have/ Bonus Points if you have
- Prior experience using Claude (Anthropic) is a nice-to-have but not essential — what matters most is that you are genuinely engaged with AI as a tool, comfortable experimenting, and eager to share what works with your wider team
- 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.
About Zepz
Financial Services501-1,000Founded 2010
Zepz is a digital cross-border payments group behind the WorldRemit and Sendwave remittance brands. Its services let customers send money internationally across global payment corridors.
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