Senior Data Platform Engineer - Blockchain Analytics

Unchain Data; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work budget

L&D budget

Holidays and Birthday leave

Enhanced parental leave

Healthcare and 401k

Job summary

Elliptic, a values-driven company defining the future of finance, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to join its Product-Engineering organisation. You will design, build, and ship the data platform powering our blockchain analytics products, taking ownership of distributed data systems and pipelines.

You will mentor engineers, drive best practices, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, observable, and cost-efficient solutions that enable insights into the flow of value

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).
• Judgement to balance scalability, performance, and maintainability.
• 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.
• Leverage and deploy AI and agentic systems to operate more effectively.

Skills

Scala

Functional programming

Distributed data systems

Cloud infrastructure

Spark

Databricks

AWS

Kubernetes

Airflow

Terraform

Tools

Spark

Databricks

AWS

Airflow

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Elliptic, a values-driven company defining the future of finance, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to join its Product-Engineering organisation. You will design, build, and ship the data platform powering our blockchain analytics products, taking ownership of distributed data systems and pipelines.

You will mentor engineers, drive best practices, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, observable, and cost-efficient solutions that enable insights into the flow of value