Software Engineer II, Risk & Compliance

The engineering team at Chainalysis is inspired by solving the hardest technical challenges and creating products that build trust in cryptocurrencies. We’re a global organization with teams in Denmark, UK, Canada, the USA who thrive on the challenging work we do and doing it with other exceptionally talented teammates. Our industry changes every day and our job is to create user facing products supported by a flexible and scalable data platform allowing us to adapt to those rapid changes and bring value to our customers.

The Compliance organization is focused on growing the crypto ecosystem by simplifying the work needed for compliance and risk management at a massive scale. Our goal is to ensure developers can send data for any crypto asset and network, scale our systems to make sure we can handle the increasing volumes of data, and provide meaningful insights to our customers. You will be working alongside infrastructure and security-focused engineers, who help make our services highly available and safe for our customers to use for their most sensitive and real-time blockchain workflows. They deeply understand what is possible with cloud-native technologies and use those insights to enable our customers to push the boundaries of the cryptocurrency landscape.

In this role, you’ll:

• Have built a high-availability, scalable API leveraging the most relevant services from AWS

• Add features to our product suite that detect activities for market manipulation, fraud, behavioral patterning, and more.

• Have built cloud-native data ingestion and aggregation processes that intake gigabytes of data per day.

• Have helped modernize our current tech stack into a streaming architecture.

• Set up local team services that are easy to install and simple to understand production health monitoring.

• Have debugged production issues and participated in a blameless post-mortem process to make the systems stronger. 

We’re looking for candidates who have:

• Designed and implemented microservices-based systems in a major cloud provider like AWS or GCP.

• Experience with object-oriented programming languages. We mostly use Java but appreciate a variety of languages! 

• A bias to ship and iterate alongside product management and design partners

• Exposure to or interest in the cryptocurrency technology ecosystem

• Experience in developing and maintaining streaming applications

Technologies we use:

• Java

• Spring

• Postgres

• Kafka

• Kubernetes

• Apache Flink

• Terraform

• AWS

• RESTful APIs

About Chainalysis

Blockchain technology is powering a growing wave of innovation. Businesses and governments around the world are using blockchains to make banking more efficient, connect with their customers, and investigate criminal cases. As adoption of blockchain technology grows, more and more organizations seek access to all this ecosystem has to offer. That’s where Chainalysis comes in. We provide complete knowledge of what’s happening on blockchains through our data, services, and solutions. With Chainalysis, organizations can navigate blockchains safely and with confidence.

You belong here. 

At Chainalysis, we believe that diversity of experience and thought makes us stronger. With both customers and employees around the world, we are committed to ensuring our team reflects the unique communities around us. Some of the ways we’re ensuring we keep learning are an internal Diversity Committee, Days of Reflection throughout the year including International Women’s Day, Harvey Milk Day, World Humanitarian Day, and UN International Migrants Day, and a commitment to continue revisiting and reevaluating our diversity culture. 

We encourage applicants across any race, ethnicity, gender/gender expression, age, spirituality, ability, experience and more. If you need any accommodations to make our interview process more accessible to you due to a disability, don't hesitate to let us know. You can learn more here. We can’t wait to meet you.