Software Engineer, Allium
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Enterprise blockchain data infrastructure
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Enterprise blockchain data infrastructure
1-20 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
1-20 employees
Company mission
To organize blockchain data so that teams don't have to.
Role
Who you are
- You are a builder - You get joy in shipping and creating things. When people use what you've built and give you feedback, be it good or bad, you take it in and iterate
- You are a doer - You get shit done. Quickly. And you want to work with a team of doers. No excuses, no grandstanding, no massive publicity. We take pride in getting things across the finishing line
- You are an owner - You take pride in your work and take extreme ownership of any task, project, or area you take on
- You are crypto curious - You don't have to be a zealot, but you see where this industry is heading and how every event of this the public nature of this movement is recorded on the chain
What the job involves
- This is not your run of the mill "build an ETL pipeline to get data from X to Y" engineering role
- This is Build an ETL pipeline where Allium's (potentially less technical) customer can self serve, transform, and receive the data seamlessly, while ensuring data quality is 100% consistent
- As such, on top of standard data warehouse, batch computing, realtime data streaming and ETL frameworks, we expect engineers at Allium to come in to reinvent and define improved ways to do this as most of the current existing tools are not there yet
- These are the open data problems the tech industry (and not just crypto) has to solve:
- Building a birds eye view of data quality - How does one ensure that we know the health and quality (completeness, consistency, freshness) of every single data schema delivered to every customer?
- Git for data - How does one propagate and manage scheme changes seamlessly to 100 customers using different aspects of the data?
- Reducing the cost of curiosity - How does one make the data schemas discoverable, but more importantly fun to play with?
- Observability - How do we know how our schemas are being used and help improve them?
- Activating the data - How can we build workflows to activate the data within for our customers in as seamless way as possible?
- We believe because of the unique nature of Allium's business, we have the maximum incentive and chance to move faster in most advanced data governance and delivery platforms out there, and we will love for people to join us to be part of defining how the future of data engineering is done
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
As money has poured into blockchain projects and markets, transactions ‘on-chain’ have skyrocketed. While all of these transactions are inherently observable, actually making sense of the immense volume of data is another story.
On-chain analysis (or blockchain analysis) is a field that has emerged to do just this, examining the fundamental factors of cryptocurrencies to improve investment and trading decisions. Allium, that primarily serves crypto analytics teams, provides a range of on-chain data infrastructure products ranging from managed blockchain databases, and enriched data schemas, to real-time alerting capabilities.
Crucially the startup is not trying to deliver the whole package of parsing the data to gathering insights. Instead, the focus is on becoming a platform service. For example, the core product is a unified data platform providing general SQL access, making blockchain data truly accessible for the first time.
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jul 2024
$16.5m
SERIES A
Jul 2022
$4.7m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $21.2m
Company benefits
- An accelerated growth trajectory - you will have a lot of ownership and control over the data infrastructure we are building. You will own projects end to end, that will directly impact our customers
- Tackling interesting problems - we are ingesting and organizing all of blockchain data, providing our users near real-time enriched data, while also providing years of historical data. We have a host of exciting scalability and data problems that you can dig your hands into
- Front row seat to building an early-stage fast growing web3 startup - if you ever wanted to start your company one day, learn how to do it by being part of one
- Unlimited vacation policy - we need you at your best at all times. When you are off, be fully off and rest. When you are on, let’s get stuff done
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and AD&D insurance - 100% coverage for Anthem Gold plans, 80% for dependents
Company values
- Be a builder - Get joy in shipping and creating things. When people use what you've built and give you feedback, be it good or bad, take it in and iterate
- Be a doer - Get shit done. Quickly. No excuses, no grandstanding, no massive publicity. We take pride in getting things across the finishing line
- Be an owner - Take pride in your work and take extreme ownership of any task, project, or area you take on
- Be crypto curious - You don't have to be a zealot, but you see where this industry is heading and how every event of this the public nature of this movement is recorded on the chain
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Founders
Ethan Chan
(CEO)Led machine learning and data engineering teams building realtime ML systems serving Fortune 500, big tech and governments as Director of Engineering at Primer. Former Microsoft Data Scientist.
Cheng Han Lee
(CTO)Led multiple engineering teams and built most of Poynt's cloud and payment applications as a Senior Engineering Leader. Went on to build ad data infrastructure at Meta.
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