Senior Software Engineer - Data

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

About Us

Elliptic is a values-driven company working to define the future of finance. We build blockchain analytics and intelligence products that help the world fight financial crime and increase transparency in the crypto space.

The Role

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join Elliptic's Product-Engineering organisation, focusing on data engineering solutions that power our blockchain analytics and intelligence products. This is a hands-on engineering role: as a senior member of the team, you will spend the majority of your time designing, building, and shipping the data platform yourself, while driving the technical direction that ensures it continues to meet the growing demands of blockchain analysis.

Challenges include building a blockchain-agnostic solution that scales globally, processing large batch and streaming datasets, and solving complex data processing problems that give our customers deep insights into the flow of value across the crypto ecosystem.

The Impact You Will Have

Our data and intelligence platform sits at the heart of everything we do. As a senior engineer, you will personally design and build data systems that serve as the backbone of all Elliptic products. By collaborating across blockchain, intelligence and product teams, you will deliver innovative features that help the world fight financial crime and increase transparency in the crypto space. Very few engineering roles have such clearly measurable real-world impact.

You will also help us excel in engineering excellence by mentoring and upskilling our highly-engaged and passionate engineers, by championing best practices, and holding yourself and your team to a high standard.

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 (e.g. data orchestration or cloud-native tools) 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.

Tech Environment

Scala, Spark, Databricks, AWS, Airflow, Kubernetes, Terraform, Functional Programming

You Will Thrive Here If You

• Enjoy end-to-end ownership, from writing the code to architecture design to coaching others through delivery.
• Strive for engineering excellence and scalable, sustainable systems.
• Use data and experimentation to guide decisions.
• Communicate openly and collaborate across teams.
• Support and coach less-experienced engineers.
• Believe every challenge is an opportunity to simplify and innovate together.
• Enjoy working with AI to benefit the company, your team and yourself.

Requirements

• Hands-on production experience with Scala and functional programming.
• Ability to 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.

Nice to Have

• Experience in stream processing frameworks and event-driven architecture.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Experience working in containerised environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Interest in AI-driven tooling for engineering workflows.
• Interest in crypto and blockchain technologies.

Benefits

Work Flexibility

• Hybrid working: The option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year.
• Remote Work Budget: $650 budget to set up your home office space.

Learning & Development

• L&D Budget: $1,000 annual Learning & Development budget to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development.

Vacation & Leave

• Holidays: 25 days of annual leave plus US Public Holidays.
• Birthday Leave: An extra day off for your birthday.
• Enhanced Parental Leave: 16 weeks fully-paid leave for eligible employees, regardless of gender or whether they become a parent by birth or adoption.

Healthcare & Wellness

• Healthcare: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage through a range of providers (including Tufts, Kaiser, Aetna, UHC, and Blue Shield of CA) with generous premium contributions for you and your dependents.
• 401k: Company match included.
• Mental Health: Full access to Spill mental health support.

Diversity & Inclusion

We welcome and embrace individuals of all backgrounds and identities at Elliptic. We are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace, and we welcome applications from everyone, even if you may not think you fit all of the requirements of our roles. We foster an environment of psychological safety, where everyone feels comfortable to bring their whole self to work.