Software Engineer, Elliptic

• We are looking for somebody who always tackles the biggest risk first, who brings new ideas and approaches to development, who makes decisions using data to validate their hypotheses, and who loves solving hard problems
• Take pleasure from writing clean code and see tests as core to software engineering
• Use data to make decisions about what to build and how to iterate
• Measure success using data rather than release milestones
• Thrive in roles that require proactive communication with teams outside of your immediate area, especially when gathering and clarifying requirements
• Are not afraid to fail, experiment often, and learn quickly
• Are keen to learn new technologies and challenge existing tools, methodologies, and processes
• Experience in delivering and maintaining distributed data processing systems using Big Data tools, Lakehouse platform, and workflow orchestration. While knowledge of Spark, Databricks, or Airflow is a plus, competence with analogous technologies is key to this role
• Experience working with cloud-based systems, e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP etc
• An understanding of design patterns around distributed systems and their trade offs
• An understanding of different non-functional requirements (e.g. scalability, reliability, performance, and observability) and how to write software with these requirements in mind
• A background in Scala (or a similar programming language with a desire to learn Scala if no previous experience)

Desirable

• We are looking for an experienced engineer who will work collaboratively with data science, product, and other engineers to help build and enhance our engineering platform
• The challenges include working with large batch and streaming data sets, building a solution that is blockchain agnostic, and solving hard data processing problems to give our customers a deep understanding of how value moves throughout the crypto space
• Our engineering platform sits at the heart of the business and forms the backbone of every product that our customers rely on
• You will join a growing team of experienced and passionate engineers that are not afraid to fail and enjoy tackling difficult problems head on
• Openness is one of our core values at Elliptic and nowhere is this more evident than in our engineering teams where we strongly encourage engineers to challenge convention and find unique and innovative solutions to our customers' problems
• You will quickly be able to see your impact on the wider business as we value lean thinking and getting our ideas to market early and often
• Write beautiful code and tests
• Think about how to solve hard problems and weigh up the pros and cons of different approaches against a variety of non-functional requirements
• Build infrastructure and take advantage of cutting-edge cloud technology to spend less time writing mundane code and more time thinking about our customers problems
• Be willing to discuss problems and solutions openly with engineers and non-engineers alike
• Take responsibility for the code that you write and see it through from PR to production
• Contribute to a variety of projects across our platform such as forensics investigation products, entity exposure APIs, and blockchain visualisation tools