Senior Software Engineer, Compliance Workflows

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, Canada, 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.

We are building the data platform for blockchain, cryptocurrency, and web3. We are looking for a senior software engineer who will be critical to our mission and will be building and scaling the APIs and data layers our customers rely on every day to stop crime, understand risk, and strategize about their business. Our engineers deeply understand what is possible with cloud-native technologies and use those insights to enable our customers to push the boundaries of the cryptocurrency landscape.

The Compliance organization is focused on growing the crypto ecosystem by simplifying the work needed for compliance and risk management at a massive scale. Our goal is to ensure developers can send data for any crypto asset and network, scale our systems to make sure we can handle the increasing volumes of data, and provide meaningful insights to our customers. You will be working alongside infrastructure and security-focused engineers, who help make our services highly available and safe for our customers to use for their most sensitive and real-time blockchain workflows. They deeply understand what is possible with cloud-native technologies and use those insights to enable our customers to push the boundaries of the cryptocurrency landscape.

In this role, you’ll:

• Build a high-availability, low-latency, scalable API leveraging the most relevant services from AWS

• Add features to our product suite that detect activities for market manipulation, fraud, behavioral patterning, and more.

• Build cloud-native data ingestion and aggregation processes that intake terabytes of data per day.

• Set up local team services that are easy to install and simple to understand production health monitoring.

• Debug production issues and lead blameless post-mortem processes to make the systems stronger.

We’re looking for candidates who have:

• Designed and implemented microservices-based systems in a major cloud provider like AWS or GCP.

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

• A bias to ship and iterate alongside product management and design partners.

• Exposure to or interest in the cryptocurrency technology ecosystem.

• Experience in developing and maintaining streaming applications.

Technologies we use:

• Java

• Spring

• Postgres

• Kafka

• Kubernetes

• Apache Flink

• Apache Spark

• Terraform

• AWS

• RESTful APIs

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. 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.