The engineering team at Chainalysis is inspired by solving the hardest technical challenges and building products that establish trust in cryptocurrencies. We're a global organisation that thrives on challenging work and doing it alongside exceptionally talented teammates. Our industry evolves rapidly, and our mission is to build a flexible, AI-driven platform that automates entity resolution, optimises data labelling pipelines, and creates predictive models that identify illicit patterns before they escalate.

Our data and solutions have been used to solve some of the world's most high-profile criminal cases and grow consumer access to cryptocurrency safely. Now, by pairing the industry's most trusted blockchain data with agents that reason, investigate, and act, we help our customers scale their workflows as the cryptocurrency economy becomes increasingly mainstream.

As a Senior Software Engineer within Investigations, you'll be a driving force in a team of engineers, taking ownership of technical direction and sharing responsibility for providing the right tools and the right data to build best in class customer experiences. You'll lead the design, build and maintenance of new customer facing web-features as well as the APIs and services backing them. A key part of this role is partnering closely with product managers and designers, leveraging your deep understanding of the underlying data platform to deliver impactful, scalable solutions to our customers.

In this role, you'll

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

We're looking for candidates who have

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

You might also have:

Experience with AI-friendly and driven systems

Exposure to or interest in the cryptocurrency technology ecosystem

Terraform and Kubernetes knowledge

Technologies we use

Java (Spring Boot)

Typescript (React, Angular)

Kafka (Warpstream)

K8S

Terraform

PostgreSQL

AI at Chainalysis

AI is not a feature at Chainalysis - it is a new way of working. One that turns instructions into work done, and helps us move faster than the threats we're built to counter, and we expect our employees to take ownership of the output and ensure quality. As the world's most trusted blockchain analytics platform, Chainalysis sits at a rare intersection of proprietary data, regulatory relationships and crypto expertise that makes it uniquely placed to shape and lead the next era of AI-driven intelligence - and we expect everyone here, regardless of role, to be an active part of it.