Staff Software Engineer, Graphs

Join Chainalysis as a Staff Software Engineer, leading the development of cloud-native services and enhancing customer experiences in the cryptocurrency space.

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.

• •Lead the architecture, maintenance and development of serving cloud-native data ingest and aggregation processes that intake gigabytes of data per day
• •Drive the delivery of features across our product suite that detect activities for market manipulation, fraud, behavioral patterning, and more
• •Own and scale a high-performance services on AWS that handle thousands of requests per second
• •Lead the team's modernization efforts towards a streaming architecture, setting technical direction and best practices
• •Own and drive the direction and enablement of our graphing platform, which is used across multiple products to drive and visualize understanding of our insights and data, both on and off the blockchains
• •Debug and resolve production issues across multiple systems and services, guiding the team through complex technical challenges
• •Mentor and grow engineers across the team, fostering a culture of technical excellence and collaboration

• •Proven experience leading the design and implementation of cloud-native services-based systems in a major cloud provider like AWS or GCP
• •A strong track record of mentoring engineers, leading cross-team projects, and driving design and technology decisions at a senior or lead level
• •The ability to align technical execution with product and design partners, with a strong bias to ship and iterate
• •Deep experience with object-oriented programming languages; we mostly use Java and typescript but appreciate a variety of languages!
• •A strong technical background with 10+ years of experience working directly on complex backend and/or frontend systems and projects, including in leadership or lead engineer roles
• •Great pride from taking ownership of product ideas from inception through to production
• •Good understanding of both frontend and backend best practices and paradigms.
• •Integrated AI impactfully in customer-facing products or engineering infrastructure