About the Company

Elliptic is the leader in digital asset decisioning, having built the most comprehensive platform for efficiently extracting crypto data and intelligence across blockchains with the greatest accuracy. Our platform’s unrivalled uptime, scalability, and depth of data means that organizations choose Elliptic for their compliance, risk management, intelligence operations, and blockchain infrastructure needs.

• Founded: 2013
• Headquarters: London
• Offices: New York, Washington D.C., UAE, Singapore, Tokyo
• Website: www.elliptic.co

About the Role

Job Title: Software Engineer, Data Platform
Location: UK-based
Employment Type: Full-time
Department: Data Platform

Help Shape the Future of Value Transfer — Learn Scala, Work with Big Data, and Make an Impact

Are you an ambitious software engineer with a passion for data, problem-solving, and building meaningful products? At Elliptic, we’re building the technology that powers safer cryptocurrency ecosystems—and we want you to grow with us.

Key Responsibilities

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineers, data scientists, and product managers to design scalable and reliable solutions.
• Work with tools like Spark, Databricks, and Airflow to process large-scale data in batch and streaming environments.
• Apply (and learn!) functional programming principles in Scala to build clean, maintainable systems.
• Design, implement, and ship features used by law enforcement, financial institutions, and blockchain companies around the world.
• Take ownership of your work: from discussing a product idea to writing code and deploying it into production.
• Help shape architecture and contribute to a platform that supports investigations, visual dashboards, and API services across Elliptic.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

Who You Are:

• 2–4 years of experience in software engineering and comfortable with a mainstream programming language like Java, Python, or similar.
• Excited to learn (or further develop) skills in Scala and functional programming.
• Familiar with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and understand the basics of distributed systems.
• Care about writing clean, understandable code and believe tests are a vital part of the development process.
• Thoughtful about trade-offs and performance considerations in software design.
• Enjoy working collaboratively with people from different disciplines and welcome open discussion of ideas.

Bonus Points for:

• Prior exposure to big data tools like Spark, Databricks, Airflow or similar.
• Knowledge of event-driven or streaming systems.
• Interest or experience in cryptocurrency, blockchain technology, or financial security.
• Experience deploying containerised services with Docker, Kubernetes, or Helm.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code principles (Terraform, CloudFormation).

Why You’ll Love Working Here

• Transition support into Scala and functional programming, including mentorship and curated learning resources.
• Collaborative, open engineering culture where your ideas and input have a real impact.
• Opportunity to work on meaningful problems affecting the real world—from financial crime to market transparency.
• Values-driven company focused on learning, experimentation, and impact.
• Flexible hybrid working (UK-based), generous holiday allowance, and a strong growth mindset across teams.

Job Benefits