Vice President of Engineering, Crystal Blockchain Analytics
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Blockchain analytics tool
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Blockchain analytics tool
21-100 employees
Open for applications
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21-100 employees
Company mission
To make the cryptocurrency industry safer for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years engineering experience, with 5+ years leading platform, data, or infrastructure organizations as VP Engineering, Head of Engineering, or equivalent
- Led at least one major platform migration or large-scale rebuild, with continuous customer service maintained throughout
- Operated low-latency, high-availability distributed systems with multi-tenant SaaS workloads at production scale
- Production experience integrating AI into engineering workflows, including agent-assisted development and AI-driven automation
- Strong product partnership instincts - you have shaped what gets built and how it ships
- Track record of building accountable, high-ownership engineering organizations
- Direct experience in one or more relevant domains: blockchain or crypto, fintech, payments, fraud or risk platforms, regulatory technology, or large-scale data platforms
What the job involves
- Crystal's engineering organization has grown organically
- The current architecture serves a large and loyal customer base, but it is reaching the limits of what feature-driven growth can sustain
- In parallel, we have built a new data pipeline architecture led by a dedicated platform team
- The strategic priority for 2026 is to migrate Crystal end-to-end from the legacy stack to the new pipeline - without disrupting customer SLAs, while continuing to ship the product roadmap, and while rebuilding engineering management discipline
- The VP of Engineering will own this migration
- The mission is concrete: deliver the new pipeline into production behind every Crystal product, restore platform-grade latency and reliability, and convert the existing organization into one that ships predictably and uses AI as a productivity multiplier
- Own the platform migration end-to-end
- Lead the integration of the new data pipeline into all Crystal products: Crystal Expert, Crystal Foresight, Monitor, Risk Check API, Data Intelligence, and Crystal Light
- Sequence the migration to preserve revenue and customer trust: no SLA regressions, no rollback drama, no surprise downtime
- Drive the architectural decisions and trade-offs that the legacy-to-new transition requires, including data model alignment, service-by-service cutover, and parallel-run validation
- Hold engineering, product, and customer success aligned on a single migration roadmap with clear customer-impact gates
- Restore platform foundations
- Bring API and core platform latency back to target: 1,000 RPS at sub-two-second latency, scaling toward 10k RPS
- Reduce database load, fix stability regressions exposed by recent releases, raise release velocity to multiple deployments per week
- Lead the multi-chain platform with discipline across 100+ chains: predictable integration timelines, accountable squad ownership, clear SLAs to commercial partners
- Rebuild the engineering management layer
- Partner with the existing engineering leadership to establish clear accountability across squad leads, engineering managers, and platform teams
- Set the standard for what good engineering management looks like at Crystal: predictable delivery, transparent planning, technical depth, people development
- Make the hiring, performance, and structural decisions required to bring the organization to the level the platform demands
- Drive AI into engineering as a productivity lever
- Build shared infrastructure for AI-assisted engineering: code generation, automated testing, agent-based migration tooling, internal knowledge systems
- Move Crystal from individual AI tool usage to organization-wide AI productivity, with measurable impact on delivery throughput
- Reduce OpEx-to-revenue through architectural improvements, automation, and reduction of manual operational load
- Partner with the business
- Work directly with product, GTM, customer success, and finance to translate engineering investments into customer outcomes and revenue
- Communicate trade-offs, risks, and progress clearly to the executive team and board
- Own the engineering budget, hiring plan, and vendor decisions
- What Success Looks Like (12 Months):
- New data pipeline architecture is in production powering Crystal's core products
- Customer SLAs are met or exceeded throughout the migration; no customer churn attributable to platform instability
- Latency restored and improved; release cadence shifted from monthly to weekly or faster
- Engineering management layer operating with clear accountability and predictable delivery
- AI-assisted engineering infrastructure deployed and measurable productivity gains realized
- OpEx-to-revenue ratio meaningfully reduced toward target
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Cryptocurrency provides a near-instant and anonymous way to pay and receive money. This is a boon to legitimate business, but it's also a new front for criminal activity - in 2022 alone, Crystal Blockchain Analytics reported that over $2 billion was lost to crypto theft. This is why the company supplies a blockchain analytics tool for regulators and criminal investigators, to bring oversight and stability into the cryptocurrency market.
Crystal's strength in this sector is the breadth of its data, covering the vast majority of both centralised digital assets and decentralised finance products. As a result, its predictions and market visualisation tools are considered best in class, and have been used to solve major criminal cases involving ransomware payments and money laundering.
The company was developed by Bitfury Group, and benefits from the group's blockchain expertise and marketing reach. It continues to add talent to its senior team while actively expanding its client base and acquiring several companies to support its growth. it's also increased the number of blockchains that can be monitored through its platform - adding the likes of Polkadot, Arbitrum and Avalance - which now means the company can provide transparency to over 30% of the world's chains.
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Company
Company HQ
Station-Zuid WTC, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leadership
Marina Khaustova
(COO & Executive Director)Also a Corporate Fundraising Advisor at Zeilen Van Vrijheid. Previously Co-Founder and CMO at The Element Group.
Navin Gupta
(CEO)Prior to joining Crystal, they spent 7 years at Ripple as a Managing Director for South Asia & MENA. Before that, they spent almost 11 years at HSBC in various roles, including Senior Manager of Global Strategy and Head of Growth Strategy in Asia.
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