About the Role

Job Title: Senior Fullstack Engineer
Location: unspecified
Employment Type: Full-time
Department: Crypto Intelligence Engineering

As the senior engineer in our Crypto Intelligence Engineering team, you’ll be working in the heart of Elliptic, building a platform for our intelligence organization to efficiently and robustly collect intel on crypto crime.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build software tools to improve and enhance our intelligence collection and analysis efforts, including compiled build-and-load programs, browser extensions, and web applications.
• Develop software to analyze and interpret cryptocurrency usage behaviors and trends on the clear and dark web.
• Implement observability mechanisms (we use DataDog) to detect problems in your environment(s) and run the associated business processes to resolve them.
• Work with existing engineers on your team to foster their growth and development and facilitate best practices through mentoring and coaching.
• Be highly opinionated about the engineering strategy of your team and a key contributor to the same.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

You will be a great fit here if you:

• Have a passionate interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchains and their usage (both from a technical and economic perspective) in the real world.
• Demonstrably great coding skills in at least one language and the proven ability to engineer good solutions.
• Have increased operational efficiency by integrating disparate systems.
• Enjoy working as part of a close-knit team on highly impactful problems.
• Promote a positive culture of collaboration through open and effective communication, particularly when addressing issues or raising concerns.
• Are able to form well-reasoned, data-driven, or otherwise evidence-based arguments to influence key stakeholders across the business.

Required Skills and Experience

• 5+ years of commercial experience.
• Expert level in JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python.
• Familiar with Postgres and Kubernetes (K8s).
• Comfortable in the AWS console.
• Experience building infrastructure with Terraform.

Bonus Points

• Experience in an intelligence collection setting.
• Familiarity with “big data” technologies, data management, and data pipelines.
• Familiarity with functional programming concepts.
• Experience running production workloads of thousands of queries per second (QPS).
• Experience as part of an “on-call” incident response team (though this role does not involve an “on-call” component).

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 for anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development.

• Vacation/Leave:

  • 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays.
  • An extra day for your birthday.
  • Enhanced parental leave: 16 weeks fully-paid leave for eligible employees, regardless of gender or whether they become a parent by birth or adoption.

• Benefits:

  • Private Health Insurance (Vitality).
  • Full access to Spill Mental Health Support.
  • Life Assurance: cover for 4 times your salary to your beneficiaries.
  • £100 in cryptocurrency for you.
  • Cycle to Work Scheme.