Data Engineer

Join Elliptic as a Data Engineer to build and optimize systems for processing large-scale blockchain and off-chain datasets, enabling organizations to make data-driven decisions. At Elliptic, we’re building the intelligence layer for the future of finance. Our teams transform complex blockchain and off‑chain data into actionable insight, empowering financial institutions, regulators, and businesses to innovate with confidence.

• •Build and maintain distributed data pipelines using Scala, Spark, and cloud technologies
• •Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, and product teams to deliver reliable, scalable data systems
• •Design and optimise data ingestion and transformation workflows across blockchain and traditional datasets
• •Ensure accuracy, scalability, and efficiency in systems processing hundreds of millions of daily data points
• •Evaluate design options and trade‑offs across performance, scalability, reliability, and cost
• •Contribute to the full lifecycle of data platform development from design and deployment to continuous improvement
• •Strengthen pipeline reliability, observability, and automation through code and tooling improvements
• •Grow your influence and take on greater responsibility as you deepen your understanding of our distributed systems and platform architecture

> 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 of fully paid 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
• •Cycle to Work Scheme

• •Experience delivering and maintaining distributed data pipelines
• •Practical knowledge of Spark, Databricks, or similar big data frameworks
• •Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• •Understanding of data-architecture trade‑offs, such as scalability, resilience, and observability
• •Interest or experience in functional programming

Bonus points for:

• •Experience in streaming processing concepts like delivery semantics, ordering or partitioning
• •Hands‑on work with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation)
• •Knowledge of container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm)
• •An interest in blockchain and cryptocurrency technology, or a desire to learn
• •Experience applying AI or automation within deployed services