Elliptic

Senior Backend Engineer

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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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