Associate Staff Engineer, Backend

| New York City, NY | Hybrid
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The Engineers working at Chainalysis build systems that detect fraud in real-time. Chainalysis builds trust in blockchains between people, businesses, and governments. Our Associate Staff Engineers, lead their own projects as Tech leads and work with 3-4 engineers to execute a given project. While doing that, they also mentor other engineers working on other projects within the same team/group and help them refine their systems design and in making architectural decisions on the other projects as well. They also work with other teams to run cross team pods.

The Chainalysis engineering team is building a suite of compliance and investigation products for cryptocurrency businesses, traditional financial institutions and governments. Backend Engineers at Chainalysis build and scale backend services. They build data ingestion pipelines, optimize/scale database operations and create event driven systems. Backend Engineers on the team thrive on not just designing and implementing complex systems but also operating them. We measure our success by how well we enable our customers to fight crime and handle compliance. 

In one year you’ll know you were successful if…

  • You have successfully built cloud-native data ingest and aggregation processes that intakes gigabytes of data per day
  • You’ve added features to our product suite that detect activities for market manipulation, fraud, behavioral patterning, and more 
  • You have built a scalable API service on AWS that handles up to 1000 requests per second
  • You have helped the team to modernize our stack to a streaming architecture
  • You have debugged production issues across multiple systems and microservices

A background like this helps: 

  • Love to build systems that are elegant abstractions over crypto transactions
  • Designed and implemented cloud-native micro services based distributed systems
  • Have built data pipeline infrastructure 
  • Experience in designing and implementing event-driven architecture
  • Have bias to ship
  • Take pride in materializing product ideas to production
  • Experience in JVM. We mostly use Java but also appreciate other languages.
  • Experience with Terraform and Kubernetes is valuable
  • Interest in cryptocurrencies

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.

You belong here.

At Chainalysis, we believe that diversity of experience and thought makes us stronger. We encourage applicants across any race, ethnicity, gender/gender expression, age, religion, ability and experience. With both customers and employees around the world, we are committed to ensuring our team reflects the unique communities around us. We can’t wait to meet you.


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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.

You belong here. 

At Chainalysis, we believe that diversity of experience and thought makes us stronger. With both customers and employees around the world, we are committed to ensuring our team reflects the unique communities around us. Some of the ways we’re ensuring we keep learning are an internal Diversity Committee, Days of Reflection throughout the year including International Women’s Day, Juneteenth, Harvey Milk Day, and International Migrant’s Day, and a commitment to continue revisiting and reevaluating our diversity culture. 

We encourage applicants across any race, ethnicity, gender/gender expression, age, spirituality, ability, experience and more. Additionally, if you need any accommodations to make our interview process more accessible to you due to a disability, don't hesitate to let us know. You can learn more here. We can’t wait to meet you.  

Applying from the EU? Please review our Candidate GDPR Notice.

  

By submitting this application, I consent to and authorize Chainalysis to contact my former employers, and any and all other persons and organizations for information bearing upon my qualifications for employment.  I further authorize the listed employers, schools and personal references to give Chainalysis (without further notice to me) any and all information about my previous employment and education, along with other pertinent information they may have, and hereby waive any actions which I may have against either party(ies) for providing a reference.  I understand any future employment will be contingent on the Company receiving satisfactory employment references.

Chainalysis COVID-19 Policy - USA

All employees are required to have or obtain a COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of employment at Chainalysis, unless an exemption has been approved. All employees shall be required to report their vaccine status. All new employees shall be required to provide proof of their vaccination status prior to the start of their employment.  

Chainalysis COVID-19 Policy - EMEA
As an employer, Chainalysis is obliged to ensure a healthy and safe working environment. This means that we must try to prevent the coronavirus from spreading inside the workplace and all employees are obliged to follow the local regulations issued by the relevant health authorities.  

  • To help support a safe work environment, we encourage all employees in EMEA to get fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
  • Employees will not be required to attend an event or in-person customer meeting. 
  • Employees in the EU and the UK are allowed to travel internationally for internal meetings to any country deemed “green or amber” by the EU and the UK authorities. All attendees for Chainalysis in-person events or meetings will be required to adhere to the following guidelines:  
    • International travel will only be permitted if you receive approval from both your manager and Executive Leader
    • You must familiarize yourself and comply with any screening/safety protocols imposed by the entity/individual hosting the in-person meeting or event
    • You must comply with any and all safety guidelines and travel restrictions established by applicable law  
    • If you are in close or proximate contact with others at the event/customer site and test positive for COVID-19, you must immediately notify the People Team and avoid contact with others for 10 days

Chainalysis COVID-19 Policy - APAC
With circumstances changing on a regular basis and parts of our APAC team going in and out of mandatory lockdown, APAC will continue to follow country legislation and guidelines.

More Information on Chainalysis
Chainalysis operates in the Analytics industry. The company is located in New York, NY and Washington, DC. Chainalysis was founded in 2014. It has 960 total employees. It offers perks and benefits such as Open door policy, OKR operational model, Open office floor plan, Flexible work schedule, Remote work program and Documented equal pay policy. To see all jobs at Chainalysis, click here.
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