Senior Software Engineer

Chainalysis

Chainalysis

Software Engineering
Canada
Posted on Thursday, July 20, 2023

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.

We are building the data platform for blockchain, cryptocurrency, and web3. We are looking for a senior software engineer (full stack-backend) 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.

About our engineering groups…

  • Compliance - this group 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.
  • Core Services - the group aims to create unique customer value through experiences that differentiate Chainalysis and make it greater than the sum of its parts. We make it easier and faster for teams to build great products, with highly leveraged building blocks that can be used everywhere.
  • Data Intelligence - this group builds and scales the data platform for Product, Research, and other teams focused on blockchain protocols, analytics, and data enrichment to provide real-world and on-chain context for all of our products and customers.

In one year you’ll know you were successful if…

  • You have built a high-availability, scalable API leveraging the most relevant services from AWS
  • You’ve added features to our product suite that detect activities for market manipulation, fraud, behavioral patterning, and more.
  • You have built cloud-native data ingestion and aggregation processes that intake gigabytes of data per day.
  • You have helped modernize our stack to a streaming architecture.
  • Your team’s services are easy to set up locally and their health in production is simple to understand.
  • Engineers on your team and throughout the company seek your guidance on API design, performance improvements, data model design, and other architectural decisions.
  • You have debugged production issues and participated in a blameless post-mortem process to make our systems stronger.

A background like this helps:

  • Experience designing and implementing microservices-based systems in a major cloud provider like AWS or GCP. AWS is preferred.
  • Experience with serverless technologies, Typescript, node JS, python and familiarity with Java.
  • Experience working with data engineers and data scientists.
  • A bias to ship and iterate alongside product management and design partners
  • You have mentored and/or led other engineers and love to teach and learn from others
  • Exposure to or interest in the cryptocurrency technology ecosystem
  • Strong technical background with 5+ years of experience working in a fullstack role leaning more on the backend.
  • Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, CDK is a plus

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At Chainalysis, we help government agencies, cryptocurrency businesses, and financial institutions track and investigate illicit activity on the blockchain, allowing them to engage confidently with cryptocurrency. We take care of our people with great benefits, professional development opportunities, and fun.

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. Additionally, 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.

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