Staff Software Engineer - Graphs

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 Staff 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 visualize 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.

AI fluency is tied directly to how we measure performance and how we plan to win. There is no substitute for your own curiosity. We provide the tools, workflows, and space to experiment - but the expectation is that you develop these capabilities yourself, bring ideas, and collaborate across teams to reinvent the way work gets done. We are not using AI to do less. We are using it to do what was never possible before.

About Chainalysis

Chainalysis is the blockchain data platform, making it easy to connect the movement of digital assets to real-world services. Powered by deep blockchain data and AI, organizations can investigate illicit activity, manage risk exposure, and develop innovative market solutions built on the industry's most trusted blockchain intelligence. Our mission is to build trust in blockchains, blending safety and security with an unwavering commitment to growth and innovation.

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. We’re ensuring we keep learning by committing to continually revisit and reevaluate our diversity culture.

We encourage applicants across any race, ethnicity, gender/gender expression, age, spirituality, ability, experience and more. 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.