Software Engineer

As a Software Engineer at Quantexa, you’ll play a key role in shaping one of the most critical components of our Decision Intelligence platform: Decision Systems. The Decision Systems team is responsible for turning complex, interconnected data into actionable insights — helping global organizations detect patterns, uncover risks, and make smarter decisions. You’ll work across the software stack, from enhancing our scoring capabilities to uncover financial crime, to building tools that make detection logic easier and more powerful for our users. Your work will directly influence how clients identify suspicious activity and protect their businesses. This isn’t just about coding, stakeholder management will be a growing focus of this role. You’ll have the autonomy to take features from concept to release, collaborating closely with product teams and delivery experts to design solutions that make a real impact. You’ll be part of a talented, supportive team that values innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement. The role is focused on software development using the latest in agentic AI tooling. Typical tasks in the team are: Building new tooling to allow users to configure detection logic more easily and effectively; Enhancing the platform so that existing Scores can be applied across a wider range of scenarios; Improving the performance of the system so even the largest datasets can be analysed efficiently. There are 3 different sub-teams within Decision Systems, each focusing on different areas across the scoring capability within Quantexa. Specifics of the remit and differences between these teams can be shared upon request. We have a great team culture, with regular socials and a strong presence in Quantexa’s London office, whilst maintaining a flexible working policy allowing for regular home working.

Responsibilities

Play a key role in shaping one of the most critical components of our Decision Intelligence platform: Decision Systems; Work across the software stack, from enhancing our scoring capabilities to uncover financial crime, to building tools that make detection logic easier and more powerful for our users; Take features from concept to release, collaborating closely with product teams and delivery experts; Building new tooling to allow users to configure detection logic more easily and effectively; Enhancing the platform so that existing Scores can be applied across a wider range of scenarios; Improving the performance of the system so even the largest datasets can be analysed efficiently

Requirements

Take pride in designing, building and delivering high quality well engineered solutions to complex problems; Take a big picture approach to solving problems, taking care to ensure that the solution works well within the wider system; Commercial Scala experience or Functional Programming experience with languages such as Java; Have experience of the full engineering life cycle, from design and implementation through to testing and deployment; Passion and drive to grow within one of the UK’s fastest growing scale-ups

Nice to have

Working with big data technology, ideally Spark but others will also be useful such as Hadoop or Elasticsearch; Experience with DevOps tooling and approaches; Building data processing pipelines for use in production batch systems, including either traditional ETL pipelines and/or analytics pipelines; Manipulating data through cleansing, parsing, standardising etc, especially in relation to improving data quality/integrity

Benefits

Competitive salary & Company bonus; 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, 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; Free Subscription to a meditation, relaxation and sleep app; Continuous Training and Development; Work from Anywhere policy allowing up to 2 months working outside of your country of employment over a rolling 12-month period; Team Social Budget & Company-wide Socials