Senior Fullstack Engineer, Elliptic

• 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
• Has 5+ years commercial experience
• Expert level in (Javascript|Typescript|Python)
• Familiar with Postgres and K8s
• Feels at home in AWS console
• Has built infrastructure with Terraform

Desirable

• 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 organisation to efficiently and robustly collect intel on crypto crime
• The mission of your new team is to scale the collection efforts of Elliptic
• Streams of intelligence come from myriad sources: external feeds, internal automation, internal analysis, client submitted data
• It all needs to be classified, stored, and reviewed, before it can be processed into our market leading proprietary graph database
• You will work with two other engineers - and with our technical founder - to create tooling, optimise processes, and remove bottlenecks in these intel pipelines
• Design and build software tools to improve and enhance our intelligence collection and analysis efforts
• Examples of such tools range from compiled build-and-load programs up to browser extensions and web applications
• Develop software to analyse and interpret cryptocurrency usage behaviours 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
• Work with the 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
• Reporting To Simon Pickles