Senior Backend Engineer
8.0/10
Elliptic
Not specified
Remote
senior
9 days ago
cryptodevweb3TypeScriptNode.jsevent-driven architectureNoSQLcaching technologiesAI tools
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Description
What you'll do
- •Design and build robust, high-throughput backend services supporting real-time risk scoring, screening, and continuous monitoring workflows.
- •Work closely with data engineering teammates to deliver personalised intelligence to our customers, enabling unique, customer-specific views of the blockchain.
- •Contribute to world-class sanctions reporting infrastructure that compliance teams and regulators depend on.
- •Help scale the system to support Elliptic's growing enterprise customer base, identifying and resolving performance and reliability bottlenecks.
- •Take ownership of technically complex areas, driving architecture and implementation decisions with sound trade-off reasoning.
- •Review code, raise the technical quality of the team, and mentor engineers where appropriate.
- •Collaborate with product, data, and engineering stakeholders to translate compliance requirements into well-designed, maintainable systems.
Conditions
- •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.
- •$1,000 Learning & Development budget to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development.
- •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.
- •Private Health Insurance - we use Vitality!
- •Full access to Spill Mental Health Support.
- •Life Assurance: 4 times your salary to your beneficiaries.
- •£100 cryptocurrency for you!
- •Cycle to Work Scheme.
Requirements
- •5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production backend systems.
- •Strong TypeScript/Node.js experience, with the ability to write clean, well-tested, production-ready code.
- •Proven experience working with complex event-driven, streaming, or queue-backed architectures (e.g.
Kinesis, Kafka, SQS, or similar) in a production environment.
- •Solid understanding of distributed systems trade-offs: consistency, availability, latency, and failure modes.
- •Experience working with NoSQL and caching technologies, with comfort reasoning about data access patterns and performance.
- •A track record of contributing to technically complex codebases, and the ability to communicate architectural thinking clearly.
- •AI fluency: you actively use AI tools to accelerate your work, and can demonstrate how you apply them effectively in engineering contexts.
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