Senior Software Engineer (Python, 8+ years experience) - Remote from Bulgaria

Job Description:

About AML RightSource

We are AML RightSource, the leading technology-enabled managed services firm focused on fighting financial crime for our clients and the world. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, and operating across the globe, we are a trusted partner to our financial institution, FinTech, money service business, and corporate clients.

Using a blend of highly trained anti-financial crime professionals, cutting-edge technology tools, and industry-leading consultants, we help clients with their AML/BSA, transaction monitoring, client onboarding (KYC), enhanced due diligence (EDD), and risk management needs.

We support clients in meeting day-to-day compliance tasks, urgent projects, and strategic changes. Globally, our staff of more than 4,000 highly trained analysts and subject matter experts is the industry's largest group of full-time compliance professionals. Together with our clients, we are Reimagining Compliance.

About the Position

We are solving important problems in the anti-money laundering space through our suite of SaaS solutions. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be an individual contributor building and maintaining the services that make up our product suite. You’ll have an impact that extends beyond the code you write, acting as a force multiplier for the rest of the team.

Our technologies:

• Python 3.11 (with typing) is used in the new services, along with some older versions in legacy systems.
• Our own micro-framework is built on the top of Werkzeug.
• The scheduling engine is responsible for the allocation of millions of events per day.
• Postgres is used in almost all services. We collect a lot of data, care a lot about database performance, and don’t use any ORM.
• AWS for infrastructure and various AWS services such as S3, SQS, EventBridge, ElasticCache, OpenSearch, EKS etc.
• High level of test coverage.
• Splunk, Sentry and Grafana for logs and observability.

Primary Responsibilities

• Collaborating with product managers, designers, and other developers to define functional and non-functional requirements.
• Creating, articulating and improving the design of our systems.
• Implementing features in clean, well-crafted, appropriately tested, efficient, and maintainable code.
• Mentoring and supporting other members of the team, through pair programming and thoughtful code review.
• Contributing to the continuous improvement of our development processes and tools.

Required Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or similar.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Proactive with a strong sense of accountability and ownership of the systems you build and maintain.
• Robust systems design skills.
• Experience working with distributed systems and systems that can operate at scale.
• Experience with PostgreSQL (or a comparable RDBMS), including database design and performance optimization.
• Expert in Python.
• Experience working with DevOps principles and best practices, including familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.
• Experience developing software to run on AWS (or a similar cloud platform).
• Robust testing knowledge and skills.
• Proficiency with version control systems, such as Git.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with ElasticSearch/OpenSearch.
• Ability to work on the frontend would be beneficial, but not required.

AML RightSource is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.