Senior Software Engineer - Data

Elliptic • New York, NY

1d • $165,000 - $305,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join Elliptic's Product-Engineering organisation, focusing on data engineering solutions that power our blockchain analytics and intelligence products. This is a hands-on engineering role: as a senior member of the team, you will spend the majority of your time designing, building, and shipping the data platform yourself, while driving the technical direction that ensures it continues to meet the growing demands of blockchain analysis. Challenges include building a blockchain-agnostic solution that scales globally, processing large batch and streaming datasets, and solving complex data processing problems that give our customers deep insights into the flow of value across the crypto ecosystem. Our data and intelligence platform sits at the heart of everything we do. As a senior engineer, you will personally design and build data systems that serve as the backbone of all Elliptic products. By collaborating across blockchain, intelligence and product teams, you will deliver innovative features that help the world fight financial crime and increase transparency in the crypto space. Very few engineering roles have such clearly measurable real-world impact. You will also help us excel in engineering excellence by mentoring and upskilling our highly-engaged and passionate engineers, by championing best practices, and holding yourself and your team to a high standard.

Requirements

• Hands-on production experience with Scala and functional programming.
• Ability to design, build, and maintain distributed data systems in a cloud-based environment.
• Hands-on experience with big data frameworks such as Spark or Databricks.
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Judgement to balance scalability, performance, and maintainability.
• Experience with data modelling and workflow orchestration.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in stream processing frameworks and event-driven architecture.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Experience working in containerised environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Interest in AI-driven tooling for engineering workflows.
• Interest in crypto and blockchain technologies.

Responsibilities

• Write, ship, and maintain production code as a hands-on engineer.
• Architect, design, and implement large-scale distributed data systems and pipelines.
• Contribute to technical decision-making across batch and streaming data solutions.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, data scientists, and intelligence analysts to build customer-focused products.
• Explore and integrate new technologies (e.g. data orchestration or cloud-native tools) to optimise performance and scalability.
• Take shared ownership of data systems, from design to deployment and ongoing improvement and support.
• Perform thoughtful peer reviews that raise code quality and share best practices across the team.
• Contribute to platform-wide initiatives that improve reliability, observability, and cost efficiency.
• Help shape the technical roadmap for data engineering across Elliptic.
• Leverage and deploy AI and agentic systems to operate more effectively.

Benefits

• Hybrid working: The option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year.
• $650 budget to set up your home office space.
• $1,000 annual Learning & Development budget to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development.
• 25 days of annual leave + US Public Holidays.
• An extra day off for your birthday.
• 16 weeks fully-paid leave for enhanced parental leave.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage through a range of providers (including Tufts, Kaiser, Aetna, UHC, and Blue Shield of CA) with generous premium contributions for you and your dependents.
• Company match included for 401k.
• Full access to Spill mental health support.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed