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?
Elliptic is looking for a software engineer with 2-3 years of experience to join our product-engineering organisation who can help develop our application suite to better support new and existing blockchain analysis products.
We offer a number of products and services that sit on top of a common big-data analytics platform. They cover features like customizable risk scoring algorithms through reporting dashboards and API only user journeys. The products we make have an impact on thousands of people around the world and enable the legitimate use of cryptocurrencies.
This opportunity is to join the product engineering team who are building our flagship APIs and UIs in multiple initiatives to provide the best, real-time and high availability (thousands of requests in each seconds) intelligence to our customers.
- Department
- Applications
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Location
- London, UK
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
- Reporting To
- Madhura Chaganty
Key Responsibilities
The impact you will have:
Our product engineering team takes all of the blockchain intelligence that our platform provides and turns it into valuable products that make our customers’ lives easier and protect them from financial crime. You will join a growing team of experienced and passionate engineers that are not afraid to fail and enjoy tackling difficult problems head on. Openness is one of our core values at Elliptic and nowhere is this more evident than in our engineering teams where we strongly encourage engineers to challenge convention and find unique and innovative solutions to our customers’ problems. You will quickly be able to see your impact on the wider business as we value lean thinking and getting our ideas to market early and often.
What you will do:
Write beautiful code and tests for both frontend and backendPassionate about tackling challenging problems and openly collaborating with the team to discuss solutionsThink about how to solve problems and weigh up the pros and cons of different approaches against a variety of requirementsBuild small features to minimize repetitive coding and focus more on solving customer problemsTake responsibility for the code that you write and see it through from PR to production and aftercare – with a “You build it, You run it” mentalityShare your experiences and ideas to improve development processes
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
You will be a great fit here if you:
- Take pleasure from writing clean code and see tests as core to software engineering
- Apply learned patterns and techniques, and collaborate with others to assess their effectiveness in solving problems
- Are not afraid to fail, experiment often, and learn quickly
- Are keen to learn new technologies and challenge existing tools, methodologies, and processes
Our ideal candidate has:
- Experience working on modern Javascript UI applications (React/Redux are preferred) and Node.js APIs, ideally using Typescript
- A basic understanding of different non-functional requirements (e.g. scalability, reliability, performance) and how to factor in these requirements to writing software
- Experience with graph visualisation and data visualisation
- A passion for working collaboratively in an Agile environment
Bonus Points for:
- An Interest or some working knowledge in cloud technology like Terraform, Kubernetes or AWS
- Experience in monitoring tools like DataDog tracing and Mixpanel
- An interest in cryptocurrency and/or blockchain technology
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 Crypto 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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