Requirements

• 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 extensive 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

Nice to Haves

• Experience with AI-friendly and driven systems
• Exposure to or interest in the cryptocurrency technology ecosystem
• Terraform and Kubernetes knowledge

What You'll Be Doing

• 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, behavioural patterning, and more
• Own and scale a high-performance services on AWS that handle thousands of requests per second
• Lead the team's modernisation 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 visualise 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

Perks and Benefits

• AI is not a feature at Chainalysis - it is a new way of working
• Opportunity to be part of the world's most trusted blockchain analytics platform
• Commitment to diversity and continuous learning
• Encouragement of applicants across various backgrounds and experiences