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About the Role

The FinCrime Core team is responsible for Ebury's AML (Anti-Money Laundering) platform. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help us build and maintain high-reliability, low-latency systems that directly impact our regulatory compliance. In this role, you will work on mission-critical features, including real-time sanctions screening and transaction monitoring, ensuring that Ebury maintains the highest standards of safety and auditability in a regulated global environment.

Responsibilities

Contribute to the development of our AML platform's services, focusing on high reliability and scalability for real-time sanctions screening and transaction monitoring.
Deliver new features and improve/automate existing ones.
Collaborate with team members and engineering leaders to design complex event-driven services using Kafka/SNS/SQS and components using our Request For Comments (RFC) process.
Coach and mentor less experienced team members, serving as a technical escalation point for critical compliance issues.
Lead product initiatives from discovery to delivery, working closely with product and compliance teams to ensure business requirements are translated into robust, audit-ready technical solutions.
Take full ownership of the products you build, embracing both their development and ongoing maintenance in a regulated, high-availability environment.

Requirements

Extensive experience developing complex software systems, specifically for high-volume, low-latency environments.
Proficiency in Python or strong OOP fundamentals.
Adept at constructing and managing services, with proficiency in establishing standard APIs, implementing observability (logging, metrics, alerting), and integrating external systems.
Experience with event-driven architectures and Kafka.
A quality-first mindset with code that is testable and well-covered with unit and integration tests.
Experience with CI/CD (Jenkins/GHA) and Terraform for deployment.
A strong mindset for system resilience, with experience designing fault-tolerant architectures, handling graceful degradation, and implementing recovery patterns.
Clear and concise communication in English, both written and spoken.

Skills

Python
OOP
API development
Observability
Event-driven architectures
Kafka
Unit testing
Integration testing
CI/CD
Terraform
Fault-tolerant architectures
Graceful degradation
Recovery patterns

Location

London

Work Type

Hybrid
4 days in the office
1 day working from home

Experience Level

Senior

About the Company

Ebury delivers sophisticated, integrated solutions — business accounts, hedging, and financing — on a single platform with a seamless workflow.
Our success is built on a simple premise and singular purpose: To help businesses operate and scale globally.
Since its founding in 2009, Ebury has always been a fast-growing leader in fintech.
Today, we bring together 1,800+ Eburians across nearly 70 cities.
At the heart of our offering is a proprietary platform, purpose-built to help businesses seamlessly streamline and manage global cash flow.
We focus on continuous product evolution and innovation to build the infrastructure for borderless growth and help our clients scale at every stage.
The opportunities at Ebury are as diverse as our people, ranging from business development to engineering roles across our tech pillars.

Equal Opportunity

We believe in inclusion.
We stand against discrimination in all forms and are against the intolerance of differences that makes us a modern and successful organisation.
At Ebury, you can be whoever you want to be and still feel a sense of belonging no matter your story.