Senior Backend Engineer/Python - Rust

About Sentinels

Sentinels was founded in 2019 by Joost van Houten and Arryon Tijsma to solve the problems in transaction monitoring solutions across the globe. Since then, we have expanded significantly, creating a group of dedicated compliance professionals focused on ending financial crime around the world. Our team is the driving force behind the AML and transaction monitoring software regtech revolution.

Position

Sentinels (Financial Risk & Compliance)

We believe AI to be the single most transformative technology of our time.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning create unprecedented new ways to live and do business. With expertise and insights from the real world, we build products which automate processes, detect anomalies, or predict outcomes. And we’re growing our team!

Senior Backend Engineer

The financial system is facing serious challenges. Banks and payment service providers are struggling to meet the requirements of regulators, and current Know Your Customer & Anti-Money Laundering solutions are falling short of needs. At the root of financial crime are felonies involving drugs, human trafficking, and terrorism.

But there’s hope! AI and machine learning offer the promise to effectively catch criminals. The Financial Risk and Compliance (FRC) team at Sentinels AI is building cutting-edge AI software products to help financial institutions meet pressing regulatory requirements, reduce false positives, maximise their customer experience, and fight financial crime.

Responsibilities

• Translating functional requirements into stable, working, high performance software
• Writing scalable, robust, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code
• Build large scale, low latency distributed systems capable of processing billions of actions in real-time
• Design algorithms for real-time targeting and optimisation
• Play a role in architectural and design decisions, building toward an efficient distributed application and services architecture
• You will build services that gather data and make them available to our machine learning algorithms

Your qualification

• 5-8 years of experience developing and maintaining highly available backend systems
• Experience building scalable cloud native (SaaS) applications
• Understanding of modern software engineering practices in areas like CI/CD, test automation, microservices, distributed systems, and data management
• Solid understanding of general Computer Science concepts including data structures, concurrency, and recursion
• Experience with Real-time systems
• Multi-year proven experience in Python Development
• Rust experience is a big plus
• Computer science bachelor’s degree or relevant experience

Will be a plus

• Familiarity with AWS cloud infrastructure
• Experience with Docker orchestration platforms and Kubernetes
• Experience working with JavaScript frameworks such as NodeJS
• Technical leadership, ability to lead and mentor other engineers
• Experience with Elastic Search and Kafka

Technology stack

Main Back End technologies: Python, Rust, ElasticSearch, Postgres, Django, Django Rest Framework, Docker.

Other technologies in our stack: Kafka, ReactJS, NodeJS, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Lambda, Terraform, AWS (Cloud-watch, Redis, S3, SNS, Cognito)

Development tools:

Gitlab CI/CD, Cypress, VS

Collaboration tools:

Jira, Miro, Confluence, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Figma, Slack

About You

• You are keen on being the best in your field and you want to help Sentinels in its continuous growth
• Ambition to help drive positive change
• Great sense of empathy that allows you to make user-centric decisions
• Creative and endlessly curious
• Self-motivated to take initiative and ownership of your work
• Passionate about excellence in Backend domain
• Already based in the Netherlands

What we offer

• An entrepreneurial environment where you learn more every day
• Personal responsibility with a ton of autonomy
• A chance to see your work make a real difference in the real world
• Work side-by-side with highly motivated people
• If you think this sounds interesting, we’d love to hear from you!

Additional details

Come join Sentinels!

We are a team of innovators, at the forefront of technical knowledge and cutting-edge techniques. From research to prototype, from feature validation to new product launch - innovation is at the heart of everything we do.

We hire talents who dare to take a stand and explore new directions. We empower our team to be self-leading, take initiative and experiment. Because we believe that creative and fulfilled people build the most helpful and inventive products.