Software Engineer II - Transpose
New Today
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.
Engineers at Chainalysis are driven by working on new technical challenges every day. As relentless problem-solvers and big dreamers, we’re building technology that enables widespread adoption of cryptocurrencies and lays the foundation for a new economic paradigm.
This role is to join the Transpose team. We’re an exciting new member of the Chainalysis family working to deliver cloud-platform style integrations that effortlessly enable startups, enterprises, and governments to build new products and tools powered by blockchain data. Transpose products power leading DeFi protocols, tax and compliance use-cases, and cutting-edge machine learning workloads. Our work also plays an important role for the wider Chainalysis family, who build industry-leading products that enable law enforcement agencies, the world’s largest cryptocurrency businesses, and major financial institutions to take down dark web marketplaces, prosecute child predators, and solve major cybercrime incidents like the Twitter Hack (yeah, we do all that!).
We measure success by how well we build components that are reusable and replaceable, reducing time to production , building tools that simplify data analysis,and fostering collaborative relationships across the company.
Responsibilities:
You’ll play a major role in building new categories of customer integrations (new APIs, data streaming solutions, event driven systems, etc.)
You’ll bring exciting new ideas and energy to the team, that we’ve gone on to integrate into building the future of Transpose
You’ll contribute to increasing the scalability and performance of our systems
You’ll solve complex problems with peers and stakeholders across the organization
Qualifications:
You're an experienced Python developer
You are comfortable contributing to a code base with high code coverage standards
You are comfortable building backend ETL pipelines and services in a Cloud environment (AWS, GCP)
You have general knowledge of how blockchains work and core tenets of decentralized systems
You're comfortable (or interested in) working with SQL databases
You have expertise in APIs, data streaming systems, and event-driven workflows
You've worked in an environment where you support the systems you put into production
You’re interested in distributed systems
You exemplify a high degree of pride in what you create, and ownership
Technologies we use (experience not required):
Experience in functional programming
Experience working with smart contracts, blockchain protocols, and the EVM
Experience working with Kafka
Experience working deploying services with Kubernetes
At Chainalysis, we help government agencies, cryptocurrency businesses, and financial institutions track and investigate illicit activity on the blockchain, allowing them to engage confidently with cryptocurrency. We take care of our people with great benefits, professional development opportunities, and fun.
- Location:
- New York