Lead Data Engineer

Elliptic is looking for a Lead Data Engineer to join our product-engineering organisation who can help drive forward our support for new blockchains.

We want an engineer who will work collaboratively with the data science team to create and support a data lake that will improve our understanding of new blockchains and bring additional asset support to our market leading compliance products. There are thousands of potential blockchains we could add support for, with varying levels of functional complexity, a vast array of features and extensive data sets, so your role will be to help build a simplified and agnostic solution.

We are looking for somebody who always tackles the biggest risk first, who brings new ideas and approaches to development, who makes decisions with data, and who loves solving customer-centric problems.

What will you do?

• Take pleasure from clean code and see writing tests as core to software engineering
• Use data to make decisions about what to build and how to iterate
• Measure their successes with usage data rather than release milestones
• Are not afraid to fail, experiment often and learn quickly
• Are keen to learn new technologies and challenge existing tools, methodologies, processes
• Ship code to production every day

In a typical week you will:

• Work in a fast, lean, Agile environment with minimal process overheads
• Develop new batch or streaming features of our data pipeline
• Review the code of your peers, and test that it works
• Participate in various “chapter” debates about new ideas and interesting tech
• Support your software on production

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in Apache Spark or any other big data processing tool
• Experience leading a team of 3+ engineers in a production environment
• Design, build, test and debug batch and streaming data pipelines capable of processing large volumes of data.
• Experience performance tuning queries and data models to produce the best execution plan
• Experience with Data Lake implementations and design patterns
• A strong understanding of the Big Data ecosystem
• A strong coding background in either Scala or Java
• Someone with the desire to learn and code in Scala

Bonus Points for:

• Experience of leading personal development plans for your team e.g. 1-to-1's, performance reviews, etc.
• Experience in other Big Data Technologies (Hadoop, Presto, Kafka, Hive, Flink, Delta, Hudi, etc..)
• Experience with AWS Big Data tools such as Kinesis, Glue, Athena and EMR
• Has experience working with Data Science teams
• Confident working with SQL
• HODLs some crypto

Benefits

• Share Options
• Holiday - 25 days + public holidays + additional day for your birthday
• Private Health Insurance - we use Vitality!
• Work Pension Scheme
• Quarterly full-day off-sites & annual company 3-day offsite
• $1000 Personal training budget & LinkedIn Learning subscription
• £500 Home office allowance
• 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 job-protected leave
• Full access to Spill Mental Health Support
• Our offices provide all of the amenities you could need
• Work with top of the range equipment - MacBook Pro and any other equipment you need

We know Diversity and Inclusion is much deeper than just hiring, but it’s important for us to mention it here. We welcome and embrace individuals of all backgrounds and identities at Elliptic, and this is an ongoing priority for us. We know incredible people don’t all think in the same way. We want to be challenged every day. We believe our diverse team of individuals underpins this by bringing creative thinking and innovation to Elliptic every day. We are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace, so we welcome applications from everyone, even if you may not think you fit all of the requirements of our roles. We foster an environment of psychological safety, where everyone feels comfortable to bring their whole self to work.

About

As digital assets and cryptocurrency become more widely adopted every day, our products are essential to ensure cryptocurrency is safe and accessible to all. Our solutions help to prevent financial crime and allow cryptocurrencies to be used for good. Our products are used by some of the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges, financial institutions and government agencies to screen over $1 billion of transactions every single week.

The company has offices in London, UK, New York City, Singapore and Tokyo. We are backed by Evolution Equity Partners, SoftBank, SBI Group, Albion VC, Octopus Ventures, SignalFire, Paladin Capital, Santander InnoVentures, and Digital Currency Group.

To achieve our mission, we depend on our incredible team of Elliptites. Our values are reflected in everything we do and every decision we make, both internally and outwardly to our customers. We actively encourage Elliptities to challenge the status quo and allow the freedom to innovate and learn every day. We encourage new ideas and learning, whether that’s through collaboration, our curiosity sessions, or utilising your professional development budget - personal growth is important to us all.