Software Engineer

Software Engineer

Department: Applications

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: London, UK

Reporting To: Madhura Chaganty

Description

Do you want to be part of the future of value transfer? Are you excited about solving problems that have never been solved before? Are you looking for a values-led company, which cares about the growth of its employees?

Elliptic is looking for a software engineer with 2-3 years of experience to join our product-engineering organisation who can help develop our application suite to better support new and existing blockchain analysis products.

We offer a number of products and services that sit on top of a common big-data analytics platform. They cover features like customizable risk scoring algorithms through reporting dashboards and API only user journeys. The products we make have an impact on thousands of people around the world and enable the legitimate use of cryptocurrencies.

This opportunity is to join the product engineering team who are building our flagship APIs and UIs in multiple initiatives to provide the best, real-time and high availability (thousands of requests in each second) intelligence to our customers.

Key Responsibilities

The impact you will have:

Our product engineering team takes all of the blockchain intelligence that our platform provides and turns it into valuable products that make our customers' lives easier and protect them from financial crime. You will join a growing team of experienced and passionate engineers that are not afraid to fail and enjoy tackling difficult problems head on. Openness is one of our core values at Elliptic and nowhere is this more evident than in our engineering teams where we strongly encourage engineers to challenge convention and find unique and innovative solutions to our customers' problems. You will quickly be able to see your impact on the wider business as we value lean thinking and getting our ideas to market early and often.

What you will do:

• Write beautiful code and tests for both frontend and backend
• Passionate about tackling challenging problems and openly collaborating with the team to discuss solutions
• Think about how to solve problems and weigh up the pros and cons of different approaches against a variety of requirements
• Build small features to minimize repetitive coding and focus more on solving customer problems
• Take responsibility for the code that you write and see it through from PR to production and aftercare - with a “You build it, You run it” mentality
• Share your experiences and ideas to improve development processes

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

You will be a great fit here if you:

• Take pleasure from writing clean code and see tests as core to software engineering
• Apply learned patterns and techniques, and collaborate with others to assess their effectiveness in solving problems
• Are not afraid to fail, experiment often, and learn quickly
• Are keen to learn new technologies and challenge existing tools, methodologies, and processes

Our ideal candidate has:

• Experience working on modern Javascript UI applications (React/Redux are preferred) and Node.js APIs, ideally using Typescript
• A basic understanding of different non-functional requirements (e.g. scalability, reliability, performance) and how to factor in these requirements to writing software
• Experience with graph visualisation and data visualisation
• A passion for working collaboratively in an Agile environment

Bonus Points for:

• An Interest or some working knowledge in cloud technology like Terraform, Kubernetes or AWS
• Experience in monitoring tools like DataDog tracing and Mixpanel
• An interest in cryptocurrency and/or blockchain technology

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.

> 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