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
In this role, you’ll:
📍You have successfully built cloud-native data ingest and aggregation processes that intake gigabytes of data per day 📍You’ve added features to our product suite that detect activities for market manipulation, fraud, behavioral patterning, and more 📍You have built a scalable API service on AWS that handles 1,000’s requests per second 📍You have helped the team to modernize our stack to operated at 10x current load 📍You have debugged production issues across multiple systems and microservices
We’re looking for candidates who have:
📍You’ve led or played an instrumental role in designing and implementing cloud-native microservices-based distributed systems in a major cloud provider like AWS or GCP 📍Experience mentoring other engineers, leading cross-team projects, and driving design and technology decisions 📍You have a bias to ship and iterate alongside product management and design partners 📍Experience with object-oriented programming languages. We mostly use Java but appreciate a variety of languages! 📍Strong technical background with 8+ years of experience working directly on backend systems/ projects
