Kroo

Full-stack Engineer

• Build and deliver new features end-to-end, from idea to production, in a modern CI/CD environment.
• Work across the stack including backend microservices (Clojure, Kafka, AWS, Postgres) to frontend (React Native, React, NextJs). We offer opportunities to specialise or grow as a full-stack engineer.
• Collaborate daily with product, design, and engineering colleagues to ship customer-facing features in an agile environment based on Kanban and XP practises such as pair programming and test driven development.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code, and participate in code reviews.
• Contribute to system design discussions and bring ideas to improve scalability and resilience.
• Keep learning, diving deeper into banking products, functional programming, mobile frameworks, or cloud infrastructure.
• Optionally, contribute back to open source and share knowledge with the wider engineering community.

Senior Software Engineer

Financial Crime

• This role has a focus on transaction monitoring however the successful candidate will need to learn and contribute to other First Line FinCrime tasks.
• Investigate transaction monitoring alerts to identify suspicious activity.
• Review and approve or reject payments that are flagged as potentially high risk to protect customers and the bank from loss.
• Support the optimisation and update of existing monitoring processes, systems and procedures.
• Proactively identify financial crime trends through data analysis.
• Liaise with other financial institutions and law enforcement authorities.
• Liaise with other business departments

Part-Time Financial Crime Analyst, Evening Shift

• Be the first port of call for all Financial Crime customer contact.
• Handle escalations from the Customer Service team and provide practical advice on required actions.
• Applying Financial Crime policies and processes and recording detailed notes to aid with investigations.
• Support with the identification of financial crime trends through data analysis.
• Using Financial Crime systems to check for any malicious actors and loading to the relevant databases where necessary.
• Liaise with other financial institutions and law enforcement authorities.
• Liaise with other business departments.
• Support the optimisation and update of existing processes, systems and procedures.

Financial Crime Administrator, Entry Level

Financial Crime Analyst – Detection, Evening Shift

SDET

• Lead Automation Strategy and Team: Act as the primary technical leader, defining and driving the overall QA Automation strategy, framework development, and testing methodologies for mobile and integration platforms. Coach and mentor team members in advanced automation engineering principles.
• Design and Build Automation Frameworks: Architect, develop, and maintain scalable, reliable, and efficient automated test frameworks (e.g., using Typescript, Python, Java, or Kotlin for mobile automation). Drive the team to achieve high test coverage through code.
• Drive Continuous Automation and CI/CD Integration: Oversee the execution and maintenance of automated end-to-end test suites for mobile applications (iOS/Android) and backend services. Ensure automation runs efficiently as part of the CI/CD pipeline, and optimize test selection for faster feedback loops.
• Manage Bugs and Automation Reporting: Oversee the logging, management, and triage of bugs, including analysis of failures generated by automated test runs. Provide clear reporting on automation metrics, testing progress, and quality risks.
• Collaborate on Technical Quality Standards: Work closely with cross-functional engineering teams and architects to align automation practices, tooling, and coding standards, ensuring high quality is built into the development process from the start.
• Advance Testing Capabilities: Beyond functional tests, champion and implement automated testing for performance, load, stress, and security aspects to ensure system resilience and compliance.
• Lead Quality Assurance Efforts: Act as the primary point of contact for all QA-related matters within the team, driving our QA strategy and fostering a culture of quality and continuous improvement. Innovate in testing methodologies and tools to elevate our QA processes.
• Develop Test Cases and Scripts: When necessary, create detailed test cases and scripts for both manual and automated testing. Your goal is to ensure all functionalities and user scenarios are thoroughly covered.
• Execute End-to-End Test Plans: Take the lead in executing comprehensive end-to-end test plans for our mobile banking applications on both iOS and Android platforms. This includes conducting integration testing with third-party providers to ensure every app aspect meets our rigorous quality standards.
• Log and Manage Bugs: Efficiently log and manage any bugs or issues discovered during testing. Provide clear and concise descriptions to facilitate swift resolution by the development team, and meticulously prioritise and track each issue to resolution.
• Collaborate and Communicate: Maintain close collaboration with development teams, product managers, and external partners to ensure QA processes are seamlessly integrated with project timelines and objectives. Effectively communicate testing progress, challenges, and outcomes across all relevant teams and stakeholders.
• Champion Continuous Improvement: Constantly seek out opportunities to improve QA workflow efficiency and effectiveness. Stay updated with the latest trends and technologies in quality assurance and testing to adopt best practices and enhance our testing capabilities.

QA Automation Engineer – Team Lead

• Drive the end to end product lifecycle for initiatives that strengthen Kroo’s financial crime controls, operational effectiveness, and automation capabilities.
• Translate complex risk and operational requirements into customer and colleague focused solutions that are safe, compliant, scalable and measurable.
• Work closely with Product, Technology, Data, Operations, Financial Crime, Risk and Compliance teams to deliver improvements that reduce risk, lower operational burden, and enhance decision making across the bank.
• Set the vision for your squad, turn that into strategy, and make a positive impact on our customers’ lives.
• Collaborate with your squad to design and deliver safe, reliable and efficient financial crime and operational workflows across customer facing and internal channels.
• Take ownership for the success of your products, managing the entire lifecycle from discovery, planning, build, go to market where relevant, and ongoing optimisation post launch.
• Define and own your backlog, making trade offs to deliver customer and business value on time and within agreed constraints, with clear attention to risk and operational impact.
• Be an exponent of continuous discovery across financial crime, operations, and automation, validating ideas that improve controls, efficiency, auditability and customer outcomes through insight and experimentation.
• Transform complex requirements and evolving regulation into well defined product specifications, user stories and acceptance criteria that enable high quality delivery.
• Partner with Financial Crime stakeholders to improve prevention and detection capabilities across areas such as AML, CTF, sanctions, fraud and transaction monitoring, aligned to the bank’s risk appetite.
• Work with Operations teams to map processes, identify pain points, remove unnecessary manual steps, and deliver measurable improvements to service, productivity and quality.
• Drive automation initiatives that reduce manual work and errors, including workflow tooling, case management improvements, rules optimisation, straight through processing, and intelligent decisioning.
• Make data informed decisions and take hard calls when data is scarce, using insight, experimentation, sound judgement and clear documentation of rationale and outcomes.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders across the bank including Product and Technology, Design, Operations, Financial Crime, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Finance and the leadership team to ensure alignment and successful delivery.
• Define and track goals and measures of success, including control effectiveness, operational performance, customer outcomes, resilience and cost to serve, using dashboards and regular reporting.
• Other duties as assigned to meet business needs.

Senior Software Engineer

Part-Time Financial Crime Analyst, Evening Shift

Financial Crime Administrator, Entry Level

Financial Crime Analyst – Detection, Evening Shift

QA Automation Engineer – Team Lead

Senior Product Manager, Financial Crime and Operations