Senior Fullstack Engineer

Methodfi; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading crypto intelligence firm is seeking a Senior Engineer to join their Collection Engineering team in Greater London. The position involves building tools for intelligence collection on crypto crime, optimizing processes, and mentoring team members. Candidates should have at least 5 years of experience and expertise in Typescript and related technologies. The firm offers hybrid working options, a remote working budget, extensive leave, and various benefits including private health insurance and learning budgets.

Benefits

Hybrid working

£500 Remote working budget

$1,000 Learning & Development budget

25 days annual leave + bank holidays

Private Health Insurance

Life Assurance

Qualifications

• 5+ years of commercial experience.
• Expert level in Typescript, plus React, Nest.js.
• Familiarity with Postgres and Kubernetes.
• Experience with AWS, Terraform, and Datadog.

Responsibilities

• Design and build tools for intelligence collection.
• Develop software to analyze cryptocurrency behaviors.
• Implement mechanisms to detect problems in the environment.
• Mentor and coach existing engineers to foster growth.
• Contribute to the engineering strategy of the team.

Skills

Typescript

React

Nest.js

Postgres

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Datadog

Job description

About the Role

As a senior engineer in our Collection Engineering team, you’ll be working in the heart of Elliptic, building a platform for our intelligence organisation to efficiently and robustly collect intel on crypto crime and make the world a safer place.

The mission of your new team is to scale the collection efforts of Elliptic. Streams of intelligence come from myriad sources: external feeds, internal automation, internal analysis, client submitted data. It all needs to be classified, stored, and reviewed, before it can be processed into our market leading proprietary graph database.

You will work with a team of engineers and data scientists to create tooling, optimise processes, and remove bottlenecks in these intel pipelines.

What you will do

• Design and build software tools to improve and enhance our intelligence collection and analysis efforts. Examples of such tools range from services deployed on kubernetes to browser extensions and beyond.
• Develop software to analyse and interpret cryptocurrency usage behaviours and trends on the clear and dark web.
• Implement observability mechanisms to detect problems in your environment(s), and run the associated business processes to resolve.
• Work with the existing engineers on your team to foster their growth and development, and facilitate best practices, through mentoring and coaching.
• Be highly opinionated about the engineering strategy of your team, and a key contributor to the same.

You will be a great fit here if you

• Have a passionate interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchains and their usage (both from a technical and economic perspective) in the real-world.
• Have great coding skills Typescript and the proven ability to engineer good solutions.
• Have increased operational efficiency by integrating disparate systems.
• Enjoy working as part of a close-knit team on highly impactful problems, making the crypto ecosystem a safer space.
• Promote a positive culture of collaboration, through open and effective communication, particularly when addressing issues or raising concerns.
• Are able to form well reasoned, data driven or otherwise evidence-based arguments, to influence key stakeholders across the business.
• Know when to build PoC vs production grade software.

Required Skills and Experience

• 5+ years of commercial experience
• Expert level in Typescript, plus React, Nest.js
• Familiar with Postgres and K8s
• Experience with AWS, Terraform, Datadog

Bonus points

• Has worked in an intelligence collection setting
• Experience with “big data” technologies, the management of data, and data pipelines

Job Benefits

How we work:

• Hybrid working and the option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year
• £500 Remote working budget to set up your home office space

Learning & Development:

• $1,000 Learning & Development budget to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development

Vacation/ Leave:

• Holidays: 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
• An extra day for your birthday
• Enhanced parental leave: we provide eligible employees, regardless of gender or whether they become a parent by birth or adoption, 16 weeks fully-paid leave and leave.

Benefits:

• Private Health Insurance - we use Vitality!
• Full access to Spill Mental Health Support
• Life Assurance: we hope you will never need this - but our cover is for 4 times your salary to your beneficiaries
• £100 Crypto for you!
• Cycle to Work Scheme