Software Engineer, Elliptic
Data Platform
Blockchain analytics & crypto compliance platform
Open for applications
Blockchain analytics & crypto compliance platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To protect its customers from financial crime in crypto assets.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for a UK-based software engineer with 2–4 years of experience to join our growing Data Platform team
- Don’t know Scala yet? No problem! We’re happy to support developers with Java, Python, or similar experience who are hungry to learn and apply functional programming principles on a modern data platform
- You have 2–4 years of experience in software engineering and are comfortable with a mainstream programming language like Java, Python, or similar
- You’re excited to learn (or further develop) your skills in Scala and functional programming
- You’re familiar with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and understand the basics of distributed systems
- You care about writing clean, understandable code and believe tests are a vital part of the development process
- You’re thoughtful about trade-offs and performance considerations in software design
- You enjoy working collaboratively with people from different disciplines and welcome open discussion of ideas
- Interest or experience in cryptocurrency, blockchain technology, or financial security
Desirable
- Prior exposure to big data tools like Spark, Databricks, Airflow or similar
- Knowledge of event-driven or streaming systems
- Experience deploying containerised services with Docker, Kubernetes, or Helm
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code principles (Terraform, CloudFormation)
What the job involves
- You’ll collaborate with talented engineers, data scientists, and product managers to tackle challenges in blockchain analysis, high-scale data processing, and real-time event streams
- 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
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The rise of cryptocurrency has been dramatic. As more established financial institutions move into the sector, these companies need to understand when they can let transactions run — and when they should intervene.
A key issue with most cryptocurrencies is that their nature means they can be used by criminals for illicit activities, such as money laundering. Elliptic’s focus is on tackling financial compliance, and it has developed machine learning tech that screens transactions to identify suspicious patterns and dubious transactors. It offers an integrated suite of products for financial institutions to screen crypto-flows, which it analyses for links to illicit activity such as money laundering, terrorist financing and other financial crimes.
Elliptic’s dataset has been developed since 2014 and includes over 20 billion data points and covers 148 assets, representing 98% of the global trading volume. Two-thirds of global crypto volumes are transacted on exchanges that use Elliptic’s products, highlighting the company's leadership position in the market.
It works with firms like Coinbase on their internal anti-money laundering compliance, and with other big-name clients such as Santander, Revolut, Genesis, and Stellar. Elliptic is currently working with several undisclosed leading research and trading desks to develop its product to maintain its strong position.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Oct 2021
$60m
SERIES C
Feb 2020
$5.7m
SERIES B
Total funding: $100.7m
Company benefits
- Share options
- Health insurance
- Flexible & remote working
- Individual training budget of USD 1,000 a year
- Quarterly offsites
Company values
- Empowerment
- Positive Impact
- Openness
- Creating Connections
- Curiosity
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
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Leadership
James Smith
(Board Director)Computer Science PhD in Natural Language Processing from Oxford. Current Mentor at Seedcamp.
Adam Joyce
(Chief Architect)Mathematics PhD from Imperial College. Previously a quantitative analyst at Liquid Capital.
Tom Robinson
(Chief Scientist)Physics PhD from Oxford. Previous CEO of MOF Technologies, a company working towards clean energy.
People progressing
Joined as a Software Engineer in 2018 and was promoted to Lead Software Engineer in 2019. They have since been promoted to Principal Software Engineer.
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