Staff Software Engineer, Graphs

Chainalysis; Aarhus; On-site; DKK 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

Chainalysis is looking for a Staff Software Engineer in Aarhus to lead innovating cloud-native solutions in the cryptocurrency field. You'll develop and maintain high-performance services, ensuring product excellence while mentoring fellow engineers.

With a strong emphasis on teamwork and collaboration, you'll help integrate AI into customer-facing products. This position demands an experienced engineer with a deep knowledge of cloud technologies and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading the design and implementation of cloud-native services-based systems.
• Strong track record of mentoring engineers and driving design decisions.
• Deep experience with object-oriented programming languages.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and development of cloud-native data ingest processes.
• Drive the delivery of features that detect market manipulation and fraud.
• Mentor and grow engineers, fostering a culture of excellence.

Skills

Mentoring engineers

Cloud-native services

Object-oriented programming

Technical decision making

Technical ownership

Education

10+ years of experience in software engineering

Tools

Java (Spring Boot)

Typescript (React, Angular)

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Terraform

Kafka (Warpstream)

Job description

The engineering team at Chainalysis is inspired by solving the hardest technical challenges and building products that establish trust in cryptocurrencies. We're a global organization that thrives on challenging work and doing it alongside exceptionally talented teammates. Our industry evolves rapidly, and our mission is to build a flexible, AI friendly- and driven platform that keeps pace—automating entity resolution, optimizing data labeling pipelines, and creating predictive models that identify illicit patterns before they escalate.

Our data and AI agents power solutions used to solve some of the world's most high-profile criminal cases and grow consumer access to cryptocurrency safely. By pairing the industry's most trusted blockchain data with agents that reason, investigate, and act, we give customers the confidence to operate in an economy that never sleeps.

As a Staff Software Engineer within Investigations, you'll be a driving force in a team of engineers, taking ownership of technical direction and sharing responsibility for providing the right tools and the right data to build best in class customer experiences. You'll lead the design, build and maintenance of new customer facing web-features as well as the APIs and services backing them. A key part of this role is partnering closely with product managers and designers, leveraging your deep understanding of the underlying data platform to deliver impactful, scalable solutions to our customers.

In this role, you'll:

• Lead the architecture, maintenance and development of serving cloud-native data ingest and aggregation processes that intake gigabytes of data per day

• Drive the delivery of features across our product suite that detect activities for market manipulation, fraud, behavioral patterning, and more

• Own and scale a high-performance services on AWS that handle thousands of requests per second

• Lead the team's modernization efforts towards a streaming architecture, setting technical direction and best practices

• Own and drive the direction and enablement of our graphing platform, which is used across multiple products to drive and visualize understanding of our insights and data, both on and off the blockchains

• Debug and resolve production issues across multiple systems and services, guiding the team through complex technical challenges

• Mentor and grow engineers across the team, fostering a culture of technical excellence and collaboration

We're looking for candidates who have:

• Proven experience leading the design and implementation of cloud-native services-based systems in a major cloud provider like AWS or GCP

• A strong track record of mentoring engineers, leading cross-team projects, and driving design and technology decisions at a senior or lead level

• The ability to align technical execution with product and design partners, with a strong bias to ship and iterate

• Deep experience with object-oriented programming languages; we mostly use Java and typescript but appreciate a variety of languages!

• A strong technical background with 10+ years of experience working directly on complex backend and/or frontend systems and projects, including in leadership or lead engineer roles

• Great pride from taking ownership of product ideas from inception through to production

• Good understanding of both frontend and backend best practices and paradigms.

• Integrated AI impactfully in customer-facing products or engineering infrastructure

You might also have

• Experience with AI-friendly and driven systems

• Exposure to or interest in the cryptocurrency technology ecosystem

• Terraform and Kubernetes knowledge

Technologies we use:

• Java (Spring Boot)

• Typescript (React, Angular)

• Kafka (Warpstream)

• K8S

• Terraform

• PostgreSQL

About Chainalysis

Blockchain technology is powering a growing wave of innovation. Businesses and governments around the world are using blockchains to make banking more efficient, connect with their customers, and investigate criminal cases. As adoption of blockchain technology grows, more and more organizations seek access to all this ecosystem has to offer. That’s where Chainalysis comes in. We provide complete knowledge of what’s happening on blockchains through our data, services, and solutions. With Chainalysis, organizations can navigate blockchains safely and with confidence.

You belong here.

At Chainalysis, we believe that diversity of experience and thought makes us stronger. With both customers and employees around the world, we are committed to ensuring our team reflects the unique communities around us. We’re ensuring we keep learning by committing to continually revisit and reevaluate our diversity culture.

We encourage applicants across any race, ethnicity, gender/gender expression, age, spirituality, ability, experience and more. If you need any accommodations to make our interview process more accessible to you due to a disability, don't hesitate to let us know. You can learn more here. We can’t wait to meet you.