Software Engineer II, Compliance Core

Chainalysis; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Chainalysis is looking for a Software Engineer II to join Compliance Core in New York. You will build and maintain backend services, APIs, and data processing systems that support real-time blockchain risk screening and continuous monitoring.

You will own scoped features end-to-end, focus on correctness, performance, and reliability, and contribute to platform modernization. You will collaborate with Product and engineering teams to clarify requirements, improve tests, and ensure scalable

Qualifications

• Experience building backend services and APIs in production.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and reliability.
• Proficiency in an object-oriented language (primarily Java).

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend services and APIs that support transfer and withdrawal screening, continuous monitoring, and risk aggregation.
• Develop event-driven data ingestion and processing systems for blockchain activity with focus on correctness, throughput, and latency.
• Own features from design through deployment and production support, with guidance on architecture.
• Contribute to platform modernization and incremental migrations with safe rollouts.
• Collaborate with Product and partner engineering teams to clarify requirements and deliver changes.
• Improve automated tests, monitoring, and documentation for better system visibility.
• Participate in code reviews, debug production issues, and assist with incident response.

Skills

Java

AWS

SQL

Distributed systems

Backend APIs

Tools

Spring

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Compliance Core builds and operates the platform that customers rely on to evaluate blockchain risk in real time and continuously monitor activity across billions of transfers. Our systems screen transfers and withdrawals, reassess exposure as new information arrives, aggregate risk at the user and organization level, and power datasets used by other teams and customers.

As a Software Engineer II on Compliance Core, you ll build and maintain the backend services and data processing systems behind these capabilities. You ll work with engineers and Product partners to deliver customer features, improve performance and reliability, and modernize the platform through incremental changes and safe rollouts.

We re looking for an engineer who takes ownership of scoped projects, enjoys solving distributed systems problems, and cares about the correctness and operational health of the software they ship. You ll contribute to design decisions, learn from experienced teammates, and grow your impact as you develop expertise in our systems and the compliance domain.

In This Role, You ll

• Build and maintain backend services and APIs that support transfer and withdrawal screening, continuous monitoring, and risk aggregation.
• Develop event-driven data ingestion and processing systems that handle growing volumes of blockchain activity with a focus on correctness, throughput, and latency.
• Own scoped features and improvements from design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production support, with guidance on broader architectural decisions.
• Contribute to platform modernization by improving existing services and helping deliver incremental migrations with safe rollouts.
• Work with Product and partner engineering teams to clarify requirements, discuss tradeoffs, and deliver changes that address customer needs.
• Improve automated tests, monitoring, and documentation so the team can understand system behavior and detect problems early.
• Participate in code reviews, debug production issues, and contribute to incident response and blameless postmortems that improve our systems.

We re Looking For Candidates Who Have

• Experience using AI-assisted development tools to make the development process more efficient, grounded in strong engineering fundamentals, with examples of how you verified AI-generated output and improved the result.
• Experience building and maintaining backend services in production, including APIs and database integrations.
• Proficiency in an object-oriented programming language. We primarily use Java and welcome engineers with experience in other languages who are ready to learn.
• Experience developing cloud-based services on AWS or another major cloud provider, and an understanding of microservices and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Experience with SQL and relational databases, including designing data models and writing queries.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures or streaming applications, and an understanding of how failures, retries, and duplicate events affect data correctness.
• A record of delivering well-tested code, diagnosing issues, and taking responsibility for the software they build.
• Clear communication and a collaborative approach to working with engineering and Product partners.
• Interest in blockchain and cryptocurrencies, or eagerness to learn. Prior blockchain experience is not required.

Nice To Have

• Experience with Java and Spring, Kafka, or Apache Flink.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, or production observability tools.
• Experience improving or migrating production systems while maintaining service continuity.
• Experience with customer-facing systems that have strict latency or availability requirements.
• Background in compliance, payments, fraud, or another regulated domain.

AI at Chainalysis

AI is not a feature at Chainalysis - it is a new way of working. One that turns instructions into work done, and helps us move faster than the threats we re built to counter, and we expect our employees to take ownership of the output and ensure quality. As the world s most trusted blockchain analytics platform, Chainalysis sits at a rare intersection of proprietary data, regulatory relationships and crypto expertise that makes it uniquely placed to shape and lead the next era of AI-driven intelligence - and we expect everyone here, regardless of role, to be an active part of it.

AI fluency is tied directly to how we measure performance and how we plan to win. There is no substitute for your own curiosity. We provide the tools, workflows, and space to experiment - but the expectation is that you develop these capabilities yourself, bring ideas