Software Engineering Lead

Elliptic; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working option

$1,000 Learning & Development budget

Private Health Insurance

Life Assurance

Cycle to Work Scheme

Enhanced parental leave

Job summary

Elliptic is looking for an Engineering Lead to raise the standards of compliance tools. In this role, you’ll guide the Investigations team to optimize how financial institutions track fund flows and prevent crime.

You will lead a talented team, instilling ownership in technology choices while driving innovation and collaboration across the business.

The position offers a hybrid working environment and a range of benefits, including 25 days annual leave.

Qualifications

• Experience leading or mentoring a small engineering team (3–6 people).
• Strong skills in JavaScript and TypeScript for both backend and frontend development.
• Architectural thinking for scalable UI applications and APIs.
• Record of leading technical initiatives end-to-end.
• Clear communication of technical ideas to various stakeholders.
• Experience with AI coding assistants.

Responsibilities

• Write and review code to assist the team.
• Guide team technical decisions balancing quality and business objectives.
• Collaborate with Product and stakeholders to prioritize essential tasks.
• Develop problem-solving skills within the team.
• Provide onboarding system context to new members.
• Communicate complex technical concepts effectively.

Skills

JavaScript

TypeScript

Node.js

React

NestJS

Redux

Cloud technologies

Data visualisation

AI coding assistants

Job description

As crypto goes mainstream, so does crypto crime. At Elliptic, we create products that enable financial institutions, investigators, and crypto businesses to stay ahead of emerging threats.

Our product Investigator is the industry standard for tracing illicit funds, empowering compliance teams worldwide to conduct faster and more effective investigations using the world’s most accurate crypto identity dataset. Its intuitive forensics visualize the flow of funds across blockchains with a single click, helping uncover meaningful evidence quickly and resolve criminal cases with fewer resources.

We’re looking for an Engineering Lead to take it to the next level.

The impact you will have:

As Lead of the Investigations team, you'll shape how compliance teams track fund flows and prevent financial crime. Working closely with the product, you'll help define the technical direction of the platform by turning complex blockchain data into simple, useful product features.

You will lead an empowered team that takes full ownership of its technology stack and product domain. You’ll coach and develop high-performing talent, cultivate a culture of innovation and accountability, and collaborate across the business to deliver meaningful value to our users.

What you will do:

• Write and review code to unblock the team, demonstrate best practices, and pair with engineers to share knowledge and tackle challenging problems.
• Help your team make sound technical decisions by weighing trade-offs and choosing approaches that balance technical quality with business objectives.
• Work closely with Product and other stakeholders to make sure the team is focused on the work that matters most.
• Help team members find their own solutions by building problem-solving skills and creating a self-sufficient, resilient team.
• Provide system context and overviews to new team members, accelerating their onboarding and productivity.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to engineers, managers, and business stakeholders.

What You'll Bring

• You’ve led or mentored a small engineering team (around 3–6 people).
• You have strong JavaScript and TypeScript skills across both backend (Node.js) and frontend (React) development, and you’re familiar with frameworks such as NestJS or Redux.
• You think architecturally, designing scalable UI applications and APIs, and you’re comfortable making informed decisions about technology choices and patterns.
• You have a strong delivery record, having led technical initiatives end-to-end while driving collaboration and maintaining high engineering standards.
• You communicate clearly, explaining technical ideas in a way that ensures alignment across engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders.
• You actively use AI coding assistants (Copilot, Cursor, Claude, etc.) as part of their daily workflow, can critically evaluate AI-generated code, and understand when AI tools are useful and when they’re not.

Bonus Points

• Experience with data visualisation, particularly libraries or tools for rendering network graphs or complex data flows.
• Familiarity with cloud technologies such as AWS Serverless, API Gateway, Kubernetes, or Terraform.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Datadog.
• Interest or experience in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology though we're happy to learn.

Don't Check Every Box?

We know that some candidates are less likely to apply unless they meet every single requirement. If you're excited about this role and our mission but your experience doesn't perfectly align, we'd still love to hear from you. Diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and skill sets make our team and our product stronger.

Ensuring that people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences feel welcome at Elliptic is an ongoing priority for us. We believe that diverse thinking and cultures enable us to solve problems in new ways by benefiting both Elliptic and our customers.

Job Benefits

How We Work

• Hybrid working and the option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year
• £500 Remote working budget to set up your home office space

Learning & Development

• $1,000 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 + bank holidays
• An extra day for your birthday
• Enhanced parental leave: we provide eligible employees, regardless of gender or whether they become a parent by birth or adoption, 16 weeks fully-paid leave

Benefits

• Private Health Insurance - we use Vitality!
• Full access to Spill Mental Health Support
• Life Assurance: 4 times your salary to your beneficiaries
• Cycle to Work Scheme