Senior Software Engineer, Elliptic
Data
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
- Hands-on production experience with Scala and functional programming
- Ability to design, build, and maintain distributed data systems in a cloud-based environment
- Hands-on experience with big data frameworks such as Spark or Databricks
- Knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Judgement to balance scalability, performance, and maintainability
- Experience with data modelling and workflow orchestration
- Experience in stream processing frameworks and event-driven architecture
Desirable
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Experience working in containerised environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Interest in AI-driven tooling for engineering workflows
- Interest in crypto and blockchain technologies
What the job involves
- Our data and intelligence platform sits at the heart of everything we do.
- As a senior engineer, you will personally design and build data systems that serve as the backbone of all Elliptic products.
- By collaborating across blockchain, intelligence and product teams, you will deliver innovative features that help the world fight financial crime and increase transparency in the crypto space.
- Very few engineering roles have such clearly measurable real-world impact
- You will also help us excel in engineering excellence by mentoring and upskilling our highly-engaged and passionate engineers, by championing best practices, and holding yourself and your team to a high standard
- Write, ship, and maintain production code as a hands-on engineer
- Architect, design, and implement large-scale distributed data systems and pipelines
- Contribute to technical decision-making across batch and streaming data solutions
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, data scientists, and intelligence analysts to build customer-focused products
- Explore and integrate new technologies (e.g. data orchestration or cloud-native tools) to optimise performance and scalability
- Take shared ownership of data systems, from design to deployment and ongoing improvement and support
- Perform thoughtful peer reviews that raise code quality and share best practices across the team
- Contribute to platform-wide initiatives that improve reliability, observability, and cost efficiency
- Help shape the technical roadmap for data engineering across Elliptic
- Leverage and deploy AI and agentic systems to operate more effectively
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 7 rounds)
May 2026
$120m
SERIES D
Oct 2021
$60m
SERIES C
Total funding: $220.9m
Company benefits
- Share options
- Health insurance
- Hybrid Working
- Individual training budget of USD 1,000 a year
- Mental Health Support
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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