Senior Software Engineer, Exposure

Chainalysis; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A blockchain investigation company in London seeks a Senior Software Engineer to drive the development of cloud-native data systems. Responsibilities include building scalable APIs, enhancing product features, and debugging complex issues. Ideal candidates will have strong backend experience, familiarity with AWS, and an interest in cryptocurrency technology. Join a diverse team that values unique perspectives and empowers engineers to innovate.

Benefits

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Flexible working environment

Opportunities for professional growth

Qualifications

• Experience in designing cloud-native systems is required.
• Familiarity with AWS, Java, and backend development is crucial.
• Interest in cryptocurrency technology is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build cloud-native data ingest processes.
• Add features to detect market manipulation.
• Debug production issues across multiple microservices.

Skills

Cloud-native microservices design

Object-oriented programming

Backend systems experience

Mentoring other engineers

Interest in cryptocurrency technology

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Java

PostgreSQL

Job description

The engineering team at Chainalysis is inspired by solving the hardest technical challenges and creating products that build trust in cryptocurrencies. We’re a global organization with teams in Denmark, UK, Canada, the USA who thrive on the challenging work we do and doing it with other exceptionally talented teammates. Our industry changes every day and our job is to create user facing products supported by a flexible and scalable data platform allowing us to adapt to those rapid changes and bring value to our customers.

Chainalysis has become known as the leader in blockchain investigation and compliance software. Our products have built trust in blockchains by taking down terrorist financing campaigns, disrupting major ransomware operations, identifying the Twitter hackers, and more. We are building the data platform for blockchain, cryptocurrency, and web3. We’re looking to bring onboard experienced Senior Software Engineers who execute high-impact projects and are excited about building at a significant scale!

In this role, you’ll:

• Build cloud-native data ingest and aggregation processes that intake gigabytes of data per day

• Add features to our product suite that detect activities for market manipulation, fraud, behavioral patterning, and more

• Build and improve batch based application as well as streaming pipelines

• Build scalable API services on AWS that handle 1,000’s requests per second

• Help the team to modernise our stack to operate at 10x current capacity

• Debug production issues across multiple systems and microservices

We’re looking for candidates who have:

• Experience in designing and implementing cloud-native microservices-based distributed systems in a major cloud provider like AWS or GCP

• You have a bias to ship and iterate alongside product management and design partners

• Experience with object-oriented programming languages. We mostly use Java but appreciate a variety of languages!

• Strong technical background with extensive experience working directly on backend systems/ projects

• You take pride in materializing product ideas into production

• Exposure to or interest in the cryptocurrency technology ecosystem

• Experience mentoring other engineers, leading cross-team projects, and driving design and technology decisions is a plus

• Experience with Terraform and Kubernetes is a plus!

• A genuine excitement for significantly scaling large data systems

Technologies we use (experience not required):

• AWS serverless architectures

• Kubernetes

• Spark

• Flink

• Databricks

• Parquet. Iceberg, Delta lake, Paimon

• Terraform

• Github including Github Actions

• Java

• 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.