Full Stack Software Engineer

Quantexa are looking for full stack software developers to join the R&D team to work on our new and innovative products which are used to tackle some of the most complex problems in the Fraud and Financial crime industry. Our products process and query 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.

In this role you will be working on building new back end and front end features on our flagship product Quantexa Explorer.

Requirements

We are looking for candidates who:

• Take pride in designing, building and delivering high quality well engineered solutions to complex problems
• Have 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 deployment
• Want to build a rich, data driven application
• Take a big picture approach to solving problems, taking care to ensure that the solution works well within the wider system
• Love working with the latest tech

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 development
• Working with Java and the JVM
• Has a keen eye for detail with regards to design and UX
• Knowledge working with any of the following technologies or libraries: Akka, Monix, Cats, Shapeless, Spring Boot, Elasticsearch, Gradle, Apache Spark, Hadoop, Docker, Kubernetes

You will be joining Quantexa's R&D team which currently consists of 12 engineers, working across the front and back end of the application.

Benefits

Why join Quantexa?

We offer:

• Regularly benchmarked salary rates at the highest quarter following all principles of equal pay & company bonus 
• Flexible working hours in a hybrid workplace  
• Pension Scheme & Commuter Benefits including Bike to Work & Taxsaver 
• 24 days annual leave (increasing + 1 day every year of service) + public holidays 
• Work from Anywhere Scheme: Spend up to 2 months working outside of your country of employment over a rolling 12-month period 
• Work from Home Allowance 
• Family: Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, Adoption, or Shared Parental Leave 
• Health & Wellbeing: Calm App Subscription  
• Team's Social Budget & Company-wide Summer & Winter Parties 
• Health: Private healthcare, death in service and income protection 
• Office: Access to Aylien dedicated space within Dogpatch Labs, CHQ, Dublin 1 
• Ongoing Personal Development

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.