Staff Software Engineer

The engineering team at Chainalysis is inspired by solving the hardest technical challenges and creating products that build trust in cryptocurrencies. We’re a global organization with teams in Denmark, UK, and the USA who thrive on the challenging work we do and doing it with other exceptionally talented teammates. Our industry changes every day and our job is to create user facing products supported by a flexible and scalable data platform allowing us to adapt to those rapid changes and bring value to our customers.

As a Software Engineer within Investigations, you’ll join a team of other engineers and share the responsibility of providing the right tools for the right data in order to build best in class customer experiences for our customers. Thus, you’ll find the opportunity to lead, build and maintain new customer facing web frontend features as well as the services backing them. Part of this responsibility is also to learn and understand the underlying data platform, in order to partner with product managers and designers to deliver impactful solutions to our customers.

Priorities in your first year include:

• You have successfully built cloud-native data ingest and aggregation processes that intake gigabytes of data per day

• You’ve added features to our product suite that detect activities for market manipulation, fraud, behavioral patterning, and more 

• You have built a scalable API service on AWS that handles up to 1000 requests per second

• You have helped the team to modernize our stack to a streaming architecture

• You have debugged production issues across multiple systems and microservices

Qualifications:

• You’ve led or played an instrumental role in designing and implementing cloud-native microservices-based distributed systems in a major cloud provider like AWS or GCP

• Experience mentoring other engineers, leading cross-team projects, and driving design and technology decisions

• You have a bias to ship and iterate alongside product management and design partners

• Experience with object-oriented programming languages. We mostly use Java but appreciate a variety of languages! 

• Strong technical background with 8+ years of experience working directly on backend systems/ projects

• You take great pride in materializing product ideas through production

• Exposure to or interest in the cryptocurrency technology ecosystem

• Experience with Terraform and Kubernetes is a plus!

About Chainalysis

Blockchain technology is powering a growing wave of innovation. Businesses and governments around the world are using blockchains to make banking more efficient, connect with their customers, and investigate criminal cases. As adoption of blockchain technology grows, more and more organizations seek access to all this ecosystem has to offer. That’s where Chainalysis comes in. We provide complete knowledge of what’s happening on blockchains through our data, services, and solutions. With Chainalysis, organizations can navigate blockchains safely and with confidence.

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. Some of the ways we’re ensuring we keep learning are an internal Diversity Committee, Days of Reflection throughout the year including International Women’s Day, Harvey Milk Day, World Humanitarian Day, and UN International Migrants Day, and a commitment to continue revisiting and reevaluating 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.