Software Engineer II, Compliance Core

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

Job summary

Chainalysis is seeking a Software Engineer II for its Compliance Core team in New York. You will build and maintain backend services and data processing systems that support real‑time blockchain risk evaluation, monitoring, and risk aggregation.

You’ll own features end‑to‑end, from design to production, and collaborate with Product and engineering partners to meet customer needs. You will contribute to modernization efforts, improve tests and monitoring, and participate in incident response.

Qualifications

• Experience building backend services for production systems.
• Strong fundamentals in software engineering and distributed systems.

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 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.

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, and collaborate across teams to reinvent the way work gets done. We are not using AI to do less. We are using it to do what was never possible before.

About Chainalysis

Chainalysis is the blockchain data platform, making it easy to connect the movement of digital assets to real-world services. Powered by deep blockchain data and AI, organizations can investigate illicit activity, manage risk exposure, and develop innovative market solutions built on the industry's most trusted blockchain intelligence. Our mission is to build trust in blockchains, blending safety and security with an unwavering commitment to growth and innovation.

You belong here.

At Chainalysis, we believe that diversity of experience and thought makes us stronger. With both customers and employees around the world, we are committed to ensuring our team reflects the unique communities around us. We're ensuring we keep learning by committing to continually revisit and reevaluate our diversity culture.

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.