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About the Role

Applications is an Engineering function within Quantexa’s R&D department focused on building real-world applications of the Quantexa Platform. Data Engineers are responsible for the data infrastructure and processing capabilities that power Quantexa's platform and applications. This role is focused on one of our Applications Teams: Data Feeds or Decision Systems.

Responsibilities

• Building standardized and reusable code for processing various third-party/open-source data sets.
• Managing an internal data lake for the provision of data by other teams for testing and analytics.
• Owning general best practices for ingesting and processing data to prepare it for use in the Quantexa Platform, including pipelines and scheduling.
• Developing Quantexa's core risk detection and scoring capabilities, expanding it to new industries and scenarios.
• Improving risk detection coverage by adding new Scores to detect additional types of Financial Crime.
• Building new tooling to allow users to configure detection logic more easily and effectively.

Requirements

• Experience designing and building robust, scalable data infrastructure to support high-volume, high-velocity data flows.
• Experience in developing and maintaining production-grade ETL and data processing pipelines, with a focus on performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Strong analytical skills, with experience working on real-world, varied datasets to extract insights and improve data quality.
• Hands-on experience working with data in cloud-based environments, ideally with distributed systems and modern data platforms.
• Familiarity with performance tuning and optimization techniques for data processing workflows.
• A collaborative mindset, with a track record of defining and sharing best practices across teams.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced Agile environment, with a focus on iterative delivery and continuous improvement.
• A growth mindset and the drive to thrive within one of the UK’s fastest-growing scale-ups.
• A strong coding background, ideally in Scala, or in a language such as Java or Python that supports a quick transition to Scala.
• Working with big data technologies, ideally Spark, but experience with tools like Airflow or Elasticsearch is also valuable.
• Manipulating and transforming data — cleansing, parsing, standardising — to improve data quality and integrity.

Skills

• Scala
• Java
• Python
• Spark
• Airflow
• Elasticsearch

Location

• Work from Anywhere

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Mid-level

Salary/Compensations

• Competitive salary
• Company bonus

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave (with the option of buying up to 5 days, and rolling over up to 10), plus national holidays + your birthday off!
• Pension scheme with a company contribution of 6% (when you contribute 3%)
• Private Healthcare with AXA, including dental & optic cover
• Life Insurance and Income Protection
• Regularly bench-marked salary rates
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, Adoption, or Shared Parental Leave
• Well-being days
• Volunteer Day off
• Work from Home Equipment
• Commuter, Tech and cycle to work schemes
• Octopus EV Salary Sacrifice scheme
• Free Calm App Subscription
• Continuous Training and Development, including access to Udemy Business
• Spend up to 2 months working outside of your country of employment over a rolling 12-month period with our ‘Work from Anywhere’ policy
• Employee Referral Program
• Team Social Budget & Company-wide Socials

About the Company

• Quantexa has been innovating the data analytics market since 2016, with technology that originated in FinTech to combat criminal activity.
• The company is ambitious, collaborative, and focused on engineering better solutions.
• Quantexa is one of the UK’s fastest-growing scale-ups.
• The company's mission is to help businesses grow, make data easier, and make the world a better place.
• Quantexa is a collection of bright, passionate minds harnessing complexities and helping clients and their communities.

Equal Opportunity

• 41% of colleagues come from an ethnic or religious minority background.
• The company speaks over 20 languages across 47 nationalities, creating a sense of belonging for all.
• Quantexa is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• The company is committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse work environment, continuously improving to ensure everyone belongs.
• The recruitment process is designed to be inclusive and accessible.
• Reasonable adjustments or accommodations are available upon request.
• Quantexa welcomes individuals regardless of race, beliefs, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, neurodiversity, or abilities.