Senior Software Engineer - FinCrime at Zepz

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About Zepz: Zepz powers two leading global remittance brands, WorldRemit and Sendwave, to build the next generation of cross-border payments. Serving over 9 million customers across 4,000 corridors, Zepz is transforming how money moves across borders by making it faster, safer and more convenient. Its digital solutions break down financial barriers and expand access to better financial tools. Zepz operates globally, enabling migrants to support loved ones, fuel local economies and build better futures.

Our commitments: Velocity, Outcomes, Integrity. We are a front-line team building tools, services and workflows that ensure our products are used as intended, while helping people in need and preventing misuse. We combine our own software and data analytics with leading third-party products for AI and transaction monitoring.

What you will own:

• Build and maintain software to automate and improve Zepz's Financial Crime workflows, tooling, and systems for both brands.
• Look after and improve our existing Anti-Money Laundering and customer screening solutions.
• Collaborate with other teams to ensure that the products and features they build aren’t enabling criminals.

What you bring to the table:

• You have strong experience building backend services/APIs in Python. A large part of the codebase you will be working on is currently in Python.
• The code you write follows industry best practices, is well tested, maintainable, scalable, and well documented.
• You have a good understanding of observability and metrics: dashboards and alerting are key to monitoring systems and business metrics.
• You work well with both product and engineering teams, and excel at managing stakeholders and expectations.
• You are pragmatic and understand that perfect is the enemy of done, but some things cannot be compromised on.
• You are skilled at balancing new requests with current priorities, knowing when to decline a task and when to embrace it with clear impact communication.
• You have an open mind with respect to diversity and inclusivity; our team and customers come from all over the world.

Bonus points:

• Exposure to Java and Spring or willingness to learn on the job.
• Strong familiarity with SQL.
• Experience with tools/frameworks: Apache Airflow or data pipelines, Celery, FastAPI and/or Flask, Postgres (AWS Aurora ideally), DynamoDB.
• Experience in FinTech, particularly Financial Crime (Fraud, AML, KYC, Sanctions Screening).

What you’ll get from us:

• Unlimited Annual Leave
• Private Medical Cover
• Retirement/pension schemes
• Life Assurance
• Parental Leave

We are remote-first with flexibility to work where you are most productive. Additional perks (cycle-to-work scheme, employee discounts) may vary by location.

Why choose Zepz?

• Team of over 800 employees, fully distributed globally, with optional coworking spaces in talent clusters.
• We value diversity and multi-language ability; we speak many languages across the team.

Ready to Apply?

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Please submit your resume along with a cover letter (optional), and indicate the countries where you have work authorization.