Software Engineer, Elliptic

Salary not provided
React
TypeScript
Redux
JavaScript
Node.js
Junior, Mid and Senior level
London
Elliptic

Blockchain analytics & crypto compliance platform

Job no longer available

Elliptic

Blockchain analytics & crypto compliance platform

101-200 employees

B2BCryptocurrencyEnterpriseComplianceAnalyticsCyber SecurityBlockchain

Job no longer available

Salary not provided
React
TypeScript
Redux
JavaScript
Node.js
Junior, Mid and Senior level
London

101-200 employees

B2BCryptocurrencyEnterpriseComplianceAnalyticsCyber SecurityBlockchain

Company mission

Elliptic’s mission is to protect its customers from financial crime in crypto assets.

Role

Who you are

  • Take pleasure from writing clean code and see tests as core to software engineering
  • Use data to make decisions about what to build and how to iterate
  • Enjoy working with a variety of technologies to solve a diverse set of problems
  • Are not afraid to fail, experiment often, and learn quickly
  • Are keen to learn new technologies and challenge existing tools, methodologies, and processes
  • Experience working on modern Javascript UI applications (React/Redux are preferred) and Node.js APIs, ideally using Typescript
  • An interest in understanding wider business processes that sit outside of Engineering
  • Experience with Amazon Web Services (or equivalent)
  • A passion for working collaboratively in an agile environment

Desirable

  • Previous experience working with a Growth team
  • An interest in cryptocurrency and/or blockchain technology
  • Experience with user behaviour analytics tools

What the job involves

  • Elliptic is looking for a software engineer to join our product-engineering organisation who can help develop our application suite to better support new and existing blockchain analysis products
  • We offer a number of products and services that sit on top of a common analytics platform
  • They cover features like customizable risk scoring algorithms through to fully interactive graph visualisations
  • The products we make have an impact on thousands of people around the world and enable the legitimate use of cryptocurrencies
  • Our engineering teams take all of the blockchain intelligence that our platform provides and turn it into valuable products that make our customers' lives easier and protect them from financial crime
  • You will join a growing team of experienced and passionate engineers that are not afraid to fail and enjoy tackling difficult problems head on
  • Openness is one of our core values at Elliptic and nowhere is this more evident than in our engineering teams where we strongly encourage engineers to challenge convention and find unique and innovative solutions to our customers' problems
  • You will quickly be able to see your impact on the wider business as we value lean thinking and getting our ideas to market early and often
  • This opportunity is to join our newly founded Growth engineering team, where your engineering skills will directly contribute to the expansion and success of our business
  • Our mission is to optimise the Elliptic product suite in innovative ways, making it more intuitive, efficient, and valuable for our users
  • We're not just building features; we're using a data-driven approach to understand our users' needs and behaviour, and then translating those insights into real product improvements
  • Write beautiful code and tests
  • Enjoy discussing problems and solutions openly with stakeholders from across the business
  • Work across Frontend and Cloud hosted codebases to elegantly optimise the acquisition and value realisation of Elliptic customers
  • Develop a strong understanding of how and why Elliptic’s customers use Elliptic’s product suite
  • Take responsibility for the code that you write and see it through from PR to production and aftercare - with a “You build it, You run it” mentality
  • Contribute to iterations on our development processes and practices, bringing your own experiences and opinions to the table
  • Reporting to Lukasz Kujawa

Salary benchmarks

Otta's take

Theo Margolius headshot

Theo Margolius

COO of Otta

The rise of cryptocurrency has been dramatic. As more established financial institutions move into the sector, these companies need to understand when they can let transactions run — and when they should intervene.

A key issue with most cryptocurrencies is that their nature means they can be used by criminals for illicit activities, such as money laundering. Elliptic’s focus is on tackling financial compliance, and it has developed machine learning tech that screens transactions to identify suspicious patterns and dubious transactors. It offers an integrated suite of products for financial institutions to screen crypto-flows, which it analyses for links to illicit activity such as money laundering, terrorist financing and other financial crimes.

Elliptic’s dataset has been developed since 2014 and includes over 20 billion data points and covers 148 assets, representing 98% of the global trading volume. Two-thirds of global crypto volumes are transacted on exchanges that use Elliptic’s products, highlighting the company's leadership position in the market.

It works with firms like Coinbase on their internal anti-money laundering compliance, and with other big-name clients such as Santander, Revolut, Genesis, and Stellar. Elliptic is currently working with several undisclosed leading research and trading desks to develop its product to maintain its strong position.

Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

41% female employees

-21% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Oct 2021

$60m

SERIES C

Feb 2020

$5.5m

SERIES B

Total funding: $100.5m

Company benefits

  • Share options
  • Health insurance
  • Flexible & remote working
  • Individual training budget of USD 1,000 a year
  • LinkedIn Learning account
  • Quarterly offsites

Company values

  • Empowerment
  • Positive Impact
  • Openness
  • Creating Connections
  • Curiosity

Company HQ

City of London, London, UK

Founders

James Smith

(Board Director)

Computer Science PhD in Natural Language Processing from Oxford. Current Mentor at Seedcamp.

Adam Joyce

(Chief Architect)

Mathematics PhD from Imperial College. Previously a quantitative analyst at Liquid Capital.

Tom Robinson

(Chief Scientist)

Physics PhD from Oxford. Previous CEO of MOF Technologies, a company working towards clean energy.


People progressing

Joined as a Software Engineer in 2018 and was promoted to Lead Software Engineer in 2019. They have since been promoted to Principal Software Engineer.

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