Software Engineer

Front Door Defense; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Chainalysis seeks a Software Engineer in London to build and scale APIs and data layers crucial for cryptocurrency crime prevention. Join a team dedicated to innovating a data platform supporting users in navigating the complex landscape of digital currencies.

In this role, you will design cloud-based services that are essential for our customers' operations in a fast-paced environment. Ideal candidates will have experience in microservices and cloud technologies.

Qualifications

• Experience with cloud-native technologies.
• Ability to monitor and maintain deployed features.
• Collaboration skills with design and product teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend services.
• Monitor deployed features and services.
• Build scalable API services on AWS handling high traffic.

Skills

Experience designing and implementing microservices-based systems

Cloud provider experience (AWS, GCP)

Experience with serverless technologies

Knowledge of Typescript, Node JS, Python, and/or Java

Collaboration with data engineers and data scientists

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Software Engineer

Build and scale APIs and data layers for cryptocurrency crime prevention and risk understanding.

Location: London

Job Tags: Software

About The Role

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.

We are building the data platform for blockchain, cryptocurrency, and web3. We are looking for Software Engineers who will be critical to our mission and will be building and scaling the APIs and data layers our customers rely on every day to stop crime, understand risk, and strategize about their business. Our engineers deeply understand what is possible with cloud‑native technologies and use those insights to enable our customers to push the boundaries of the cryptocurrency landscape.

In this role, you’ll:

• Develop and maintain backend services as they relate to Blockchain data

• Monitor and maintain deployed features and services for Chainalysis’ SaaS.

• Collaborate closely with design and product teams to ship and iterate on software features.

• Contribute to the development and scalability of our cloud infrastructure.

• Build scalable API services on AWS that handles up to 1000 requests per second.

• Debug production issues across microservices.

We’re looking for candidates who have:

• Experience designing and implementing microservices‑based systems in a major cloud provider like AWS or GCP.

• Experience with serverless technologies, Typescript, Node JS, python and/or Java.

• Experience working with data engineers and data scientists.

• Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, CDK is a plus.

Nice to have experience:

• AWS Aurora

• Databricks

• PostgreSQL

• Exposure to or interest in the cryptocurrency technology ecosystem

Technologies we use:

• PostgreSQL

• Java

• Kafka

• Terraform, K8, CDK

• Cloud Technologies including AWS

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.