About the company
The global financial ecosystem is changing. Revolutionary blockchain technology has unlocked the potential for people around the world to have more equal access to wealth and information. This transformation has begun with the mass global adoption of cryptocurrencies but like all new financial systems, it needs greater trust to realize its full potential and remain safe from bad actors. That’s where we come in. The Chainalysis blockchain data platform enables businesses, governments, and banks to solve the world’s most high-profile criminal cases, paving the way for an economy built on blockchains.
Job Summary
About the role:
The engineering team at Chainalysis is inspired by solving the hardest technical challenges and creating products that build trust in cryptocurrencies. Our industry changes every day and our job is to create user facing products supported by a flexible and scalable data platform allowing us to adapt to those rapid changes and bring value to our customers.
We are building the data platform for blockchain, cryptocurrency, and web3. We are looking for a senior software engineer who will be critical to our mission and will be building and scaling the APIs and data layers our customers rely on every day to stop crime, understand risk, and strategize about their business.
The Compliance organization is focused on growing the crypto ecosystem by simplifying the work needed for compliance and risk management at a massive scale. Our goal is to ensure developers can send data for any crypto asset and network, scale our systems to make sure we can handle the increasing volumes of data, and provide meaningful insights to our customers.
Responsibilities:
📍Build a high-availability, low-latency, scalable API leveraging the most relevant services from AWS 📍Add features to our product suite that detect activities for market manipulation, fraud, behavioral patterning, and more. 📍Build cloud-native data ingestion and aggregation processes that intake terabytes of data per day. 📍Set up local team services that are easy to install and simple to understand production health monitoring. 📍Debug production issues and lead blameless post-mortem processes to make the systems stronger.
Requirements:
📍Designed and implemented microservices-based systems in a major cloud provider like AWS or GCP. 📍Experience with object-oriented programming languages. We mostly use Java but appreciate a variety of languages! 📍A bias to ship and iterate alongside product management and design partners. 📍Exposure to or interest in the cryptocurrency technology ecosystem. 📍Experience in developing and maintaining streaming applications.
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