Do you want to be part of the future of value transfer? Are you excited about solving problems that have never been solved before? Are you looking for a values-led company, which cares about the growth of its employees?
The impact you will have:
Your task is the ruthless pursuit of blockchain identity labels through powerful modelling.
Your days are split between our proprietary dataset and on-chain developments, identifying the most effective models to build and building them.
Your team’s success is measured by the scale and value of the intelligence you generate. This intelligence powers everything we sell and everything we say here at Elliptic.
- Department
- Intelligence Collection
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Location
- London, UK
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
- Reporting To
- Stephen Hazelton
Key Responsibilities
What you will do:
- Stay abreast of technical developments on chain and in the ecosystem through continuous research.
- Use the knowledge you gain above to identify new models to build. Prioritise based on efficiency, unit economics and value to our business.
- Work in a highly collaborative environment with engineers, blockchain analysts, data scientists, researchers. Your shared goal is creating intelligence, you contribute in different ways.
- Be deeply opinionated about where we’re spending our time (as the above team in particular, but also as a company), and how we can increase the value of our intelligence.
- Own your time and output based on the above. Is your time better spent today building a model or researching a new more powerful model?
- Participate in a collegiate group of blockchain experts, share your knowledge across our business wherever it is effective.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
You will be a great fit here if you:
- Are highly curious and sceptical.
- Have experience digging into huge datasets, spotting quirks in the data and pulling the thread – finding the truth.
- Can focus only on analysis or models which will be useful for our business – cut through the noise.
- Are entrepreneurial and create connections, both internally and within the community.
- Are very interested in Cryptocurrencies.
Our ideal candidate:
- Has a STEM degree.
- Has experience defining effective metrics, monitoring the results and optimising accordingly.
- Is comfortable querying data with SQL and Python.
- Can optimise queries for huge datasets.
- Has a solid understanding of blockchain ecosystem elements like DeFi, Exchanges, Wallets, Smart Contracts, mixers and privacy services.
Bonus Experience:
- Databricks and PySpark
- Analysing blockchain data
- Building and maintaining data pipelines
- Deploying machine learning models
- Use of graph analytics and graph neural networks
- Following funds on chain by using block explorers
Job Benefits
> How we work:
- Hybrid working and the option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year
- £500 Remote working budget to set up your home office space
> Learning & Development:
- $1,000 Learning & Development budget to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development
> Vacation/ Leave:
- Holidays: 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
- An extra day for your birthday
- Enhanced parental leave: we provide eligible employees, regardless of gender or whether they become a parent by birth or adoption, 16 weeks fully-paid leave and leave.
> Benefits:
- Private Health Insurance – we use Vitality!
- Full access to Spill Mental Health Support
- Life Assurance: we hope you will never need this – but our cover is for 4 times your salary to your beneficiaries
- £100 cryptocurrency for you!
- Cycle to Work Scheme
About Elliptic
At Elliptic, we believe cryptocurrency will play a huge role in the future of value transfer, and we care deeply about helping to build this future. As digital assets and cryptocurrency become more widely adopted, our products are essential to ensure cryptocurrency is safe and accessible to all.
Elliptic’s blockchain analytics solutions help prevent financial crime and allow cryptocurrencies to be used for good. The company is the global leader in detecting, preventing, and pursuing criminal activity in cryptocurrencies. Our products are used by some of the world’s most highly regulated banks and financial institutions, leading cryptocurrency exchanges, and government agencies to screen over $1 billion of transactions every single week.
The company has offices in London (Global HQ), New York City, and Singapore. We are backed by leading institutions including Evolution Equity Partners, SoftBank, SBI Group, Albion VC, Octopus Ventures, SignalFire, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan, Paladin Capital, Santander InnoVentures, and Digital Currency Group.
To achieve our mission, we depend on our incredible team of Elliptites. Our values are reflected in everything we do and in every decision we make, both internally and outwardly to our customers. We actively encourage Elliptities to challenge the status quo and allow the freedom to innovate and learn everyday. We encourage new ideas and learning, whether that’s through collaboration, our curiosity sessions, or utilising your professional development budget – the team’s personal growth is key to our success.
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