Blockchain Java Jobs

The global financial ecosystem is changing. Revolutionary blockchain technology has unlocked the potential for people around the world to have more equal access to wealth and information. This transformation has begun with the mass global adoption of cryptocurrencies but like all new financial systems, it needs greater trust to realize its full potential and remain safe from bad actors. That’s where we come in. The Chainalysis blockchain data platform enables businesses, governments, and banks to solve the world’s most high-profile criminal cases, paving the way for an economy built on blockchains.

The global financial ecosystem is changing. Revolutionary blockchain technology has unlocked the potential for people around the world to have more equal access to wealth and information. This transformation has begun with the global mass adoption of cryptocurrencies. Still, like all new financial systems, it needs greater trust to realize its full potential and remain safe from bad actors. That’s where we come in. The Chainalysis blockchain data platform enables businesses, governments, and banks to solve the world’s most high-profile criminal cases, paving the way for an economy built on blockchains.

Software Engineers in the data platform and clustering teams strike a balance between forward-looking software engineering best practices, and data engineering infrastructure know-how. This team partners with data scientists, research, and product teams, helping architect, create and maintain data pipelines. Software Engineers in the data platform and Clustering teams have a deep understanding of blockchain data, are experts at understanding protocol schemas and nuances, and build scalable AWS ingest pipelines, lambdas, and services. We measure success by the coverage of data clustered for the various Chainalysis products.

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

• You have successfully built cloud-native data ingest and aggregation processes that intake 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:

• You’ve led or played an instrumental role in designing and implementing cloud-native microservices-based distributed systems in a major cloud provider like AWS or GCP
• Experience mentoring other engineers, leading cross-team projects, and driving design and technology decisions
• You have a bias to ship and iterate alongside product management and design partners
• Experience with object-oriented programming languages. We mostly use Java but appreciate a variety of languages!
• Strong technical background with 8+ years of experience working directly on backend systems/ projects
• You take great pride in materializing product ideas through production
• Exposure to or interest in the cryptocurrency technology ecosystem
• Experience with Terraform and Kubernetes is a plus!