Senior Software Engineer, Transaction Tracing

Chainalysis; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading blockchain analysis firm is looking for a Software Engineer to join a remote team. The role involves building customer-facing web features and collaborating on data tools. Candidates should have strong Java/Spring skills, experience in service management, and knowledge of Kubernetes. The position emphasizes teamwork and adaptability in a rapidly evolving field. Diversity and inclusion are key aspects of the company culture.

Qualifications

• Expertise in writing and maintaining Java/Spring-based backend services.
• Experience in the full lifecycle of service management.
• Understanding of service scalability and high availability.

Responsibilities

• Join a remote team of engineers providing tools for data.
• Lead, build, and maintain web frontend features.
• Collaborate with product managers and designers.

Skills

Java/Spring expertise

Service management lifecycle

Service scalability and availability

Database management systems

Frontend development background

Kubernetes orchestration

Tools

PostgreSQL

ClickHouse

React

Angular

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Overview

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, Israel, and 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.

Responsibilities

As a Software Engineer within the Investigations group, you’ll join a remote team of other engineers and share the responsibility of providing the right tools for the right data in order to build best in class customer experiences for our customers. Thus, you’ll find the opportunity to lead, build and maintain customer facing web frontend features as well as the services and data pipelines backing them. Part of this responsibility is also to learn and understand the domain as well as the underlying data platform in order to successfully partner with product managers and designers to deliver impactful solutions to our customers.

• Become part of an established team adept at collaboration and task allocation. A team which can focus on generating direct impact.
• Make key contributions to high availability solutions in close collaboration with your team through your ability and willingness to take ownership and assist where needed. Your contributions will be thorough and result in sustaining a low maintenance overhead.
• Gain customer understanding as well as valuable insights into our data platform through your curiosity around cryptocurrencies/decentralized-finance
• Demonstrate your passion for learning by seeking out knowledge and collaborating with people close to our products and solutions.
• Display your bias to ship and iterate alongside product management and design partners.

We’re looking for candidates who have:

• Expertise in writing and maintaining Java/Spring-based backend services.
• Experience in the full lifecycle of service management, from initial development to continuous operation.
• A deep understanding of the critical aspects of service scalability and high availability as well as monitoring and maintaining deployed features and services ensuring optimal performance and reliability.
• Database management systems experience including replication, high availability, performance tuning, and complex query optimization.
• A background in frontend development.
• Strong knowledge of container orchestration using Kubernetes.

You might also have:

• An understanding of event streaming platforms.
• Hands on with infrastructure as code.
• A track record in mentoring other engineers, leading cross-team projects without authority, and driving design and technology decisions.

Technologies we use (nice to have experience):

• Monitoring and alerting: Datadog, Falcon LogScale (formerly Humio) • Database management systems: PostgreSQL, ClickHouse
• Deployment tools: Flux, Helm, Kustomize
• Frontend frameworks: React, Angular
• Infrastructure as code: Terraform, Terragrunt
• Cloud provider: AWS
• Event streaming platform: Kafka
• Big data processing: Databricks

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.