Senior Fullstack Engineer

Senior Fullstack EngineerDepartment: Intelligence Collection Employment Type: Full TimeLocation: London, UKDescription
About the Role
As the senior engineer in our Crypto Intelligence Engineering team, you’ll be working in the heart of Elliptic, building a platform for our intelligence organisation to efficiently and robustly collect intel on crypto crime.The mission of your new team is to scale the collection efforts of Elliptic. Streams of intelligence come from myriad sources: external feeds, internal automation, internal analysis, client submitted data. It all needs to be classified, stored, and reviewed, before it can be processed into our market leading proprietary graph database.You will work with two other engineers - and with our technical founder - to create tooling, optimise processes, and remove bottlenecks in these intel pipelines.Key ResponsibilitiesWhat you will do
Design and build software tools to improve and enhance our intelligence collection and analysis efforts. Examples of such tools range from compiled build-and-load programs up to browser extensions and web applications.
Develop software to analyse and interpret cryptocurrency usage behaviours and trends on the clear and dark web
Implement observability mechanisms (we use DataDog) to detect problems in your environment(s), and run the associated business processes to resolve
Work with the existing engineers on your team to foster their growth and development, and facilitate best practices, through mentoring and coaching
Be highly opinionated about the engineering strategy of your team, and a key contributor to the same
Skills, Knowledge and ExpertiseYou will be a great fit here if you
Have a passionate interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchains and their usage (both from a technical and economic perspective) in the real-world
Demonstrably great coding skills in at least one language and the proven ability to engineer good solutions
Have increased operational efficiency by integrating disparate systems
Enjoy working as part of a close-knit team on highly impactful problems
Promote a positive culture of collaboration, through open and effective communication, particularly when addressing issues or raising concerns.
Are able to form well reasoned, data driven or otherwise evidence based arguments, to influence key stakeholders across the business.
Required Skills and Experience
Has 5+ years commercial experience
Expert level in (Javascript|Typescript|Python)
Familiar with Postgres and K8s
Feels at home in AWS console
Has built infrastructure with Terraform
Bonus points
Has worked in an intelligence collection setting
Experience with “big data” technologies, the management of data, and data pipelines
Familiarity with functional programming concepts
Has run production workloads of 1000s QPS
Has been part of an “on call” incident response team (though this role does not involve an “on call” component)
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
LinkedIn Learning subscription.
> 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
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