allica-bank - Associate Product Engineer

• Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset with a genuine interest in fraud, risk, and financial crime, with ability to take ownership of problems end-to-end and iterate towards effective solutions. • Comfortable balancing customer experience, risk mitigation, and operational efficiency in a fast-paced environment. • Excellent attention to detail. Experience with analysing large datasets with SQL and Python to discover complex trends and patterns. Familiarity with supervised machine learning concepts including tree-based learning, evaluation best practices and explainability. • Strong sense of ownership over data quality – comfortable identifying inconsistencies and resolving them directly. • Familiar with building microservices (Python/FastAPI, Kotlin/Spring or similar). • Comfortable designing scalable solutions to big data problems. • Familiarity with frontend development (React/TypeScript) is a nice to have. • Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure preferred) and CI/CD practices. • Excellent communicator – able to translate findings and proposals to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders. • Comfortable working in Agile/squad environments and contributing to squad metrics and delivery. • Familiarity with third-party fraud or decisioning platforms is a plus, although not mandatory. • Demonstrable experience with rule tuning, feature engineering, or model performance optimisation is highly desirable • Working at Allica Bank • At Allica Bank we want to ensure our employees have the right tools and environment in which to succeed in their role and in support of our customers. • Our employees are at the heart of everything we do, so our benefits are designed with you in mind: • Full onboarding support and continued development opportunities • Options for flexible working • Regular social activities • Pension contributions • Discretionary bonus scheme • Private health cover • Life assurance • Family friendly policies including enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave • Don’t tick every box? • Don’t worry if you don’t have all the skills or requirements listed on the job description. If you think you’ll be a good fit, we’d still love to hear from you! • Flexible working • We know the ‘9-to-5’ isn’t right for everyone. That’s why Allica Bank is fully committed to flexible and hybrid working. Please let us know what is best for you and, if we can, we will do our best to accommodate. • We’re a diverse bunch here at Allica, with all kinds of experiences, backgrounds and lifestyles. Our openness and differences make us stronger, and we want everybody to feel comfortable bringing as much of themselves to work with them as they like.