Backend Engineer: Crypto Risk & Data APIs

Software Engineer Build and scale APIs and data layers for cryptocurrency crime prevention and risk understanding.

Location:

London

Job Tags:
Software

The engineering team at Chainalysis is inspired by solving the hardest technical challenges and creating products that build trust in cryptocurrencies. We’re a global organization with teams in Denmark, UK, Canada, the USA who thrive on the challenging work we do and doing it with other exceptionally talented teammates. 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 web
3. We are looking for Software Engineers 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. Our engineers deeply understand what is possible with cloud‑native technologies and use those insights to enable our customers to push the boundaries of the cryptocurrency landscape.

In this role, you’ll:

• Develop and maintain backend services as they relate to Blockchain data

• Monitor and maintain deployed features and services for Chainalysis’ SaaS.

• Collaborate closely with design and product teams to ship and iterate on software features.

• Contribute to the development and scalability of our cloud infrastructure.

• Build scalable API services on AWS that handles up to 1000 requests per second.

• Debug production issues across microservices.

We’re looking for candidates who have:

• Experience designing and implementing microservices‑based systems in a major cloud provider like AWS or GCP.

• Experience with serverless technologies, Typescript, Node JS, python and/or Java.

• Experience working with data engineers and data scientists.

• Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, CDK is a plus.

Nice to have experience:

• AWS Aurora

• Databricks

• PostgreSQL

• Exposure to or interest in the cryptocurrency technology ecosystem

Technologies we use:

• PostgreSQL

• Java

• Kafka

• Terraform, K8, CDK

• Cloud Technologies including AWS

We encourage applicants across any race, ethnicity, gender/gender expression, age, spirituality, ability, experience and more. If you need any accommodations to make our interview process more accessible to you due to a disability, don't hesitate to let us know. You can learn more here. We can’t wait to meet you.