Senior Data Engineer - Remote Blockchain Analytics

Elliptic; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

401k plan

Mental health support

Hybrid work model

Remote work budget

Learning & development budget

Paid holidays and birthday leave

Job summary

Elliptic is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and operate data platforms powering blockchain analytics. You will own large-scale distributed data systems, mentor peers, and influence the technical direction in a fast-moving, AI-enabled environment.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding in Scala, cloud-native pipelines, and collaboration with product, data science, and intelligence teams to deliver customer-focused solutions that scale globally.

Qualifications

• Hands-on production experience with Scala and functional programming.
• Design, build, and maintain distributed data systems in a cloud-based environment.
• Hands-on experience with big data frameworks such as Spark or Databricks.
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Experience with data modelling and workflow orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Write, ship, and maintain production code as a hands-on engineer.
• Architect, design, and implement large-scale distributed data systems and pipelines.
• Contribute to technical decision-making across batch and streaming data solutions.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, data scientists, and intelligence analysts to build customer-focused products.
• Explore and integrate new technologies to optimise performance and scalability.
• Take shared ownership of data systems, from design to deployment and ongoing improvement and support.
• Perform thoughtful peer reviews that raise code quality and share best practices across the team.
• Contribute to platform-wide initiatives that improve reliability, observability, and cost efficiency.
• Help shape the technical roadmap for data engineering across Elliptic.
• Adoptive AI fluency in daily work, leveraging AI and agentic systems to operate more effectively.

Skills

Scala

Functional programming

Tools

Spark

Databricks

Job description

Elliptic is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and operate data platforms powering blockchain analytics. You will own large-scale distributed data systems, mentor peers, and influence the technical direction in a fast-moving, AI-enabled environment.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding in Scala, cloud-native pipelines, and collaboration with product, data science, and intelligence teams to deliver customer-focused solutions that scale globally.