Software Engineer II, Compliance Core
Chainalysis4 hours ago
Base Salary
$146k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain backend services and APIs for transfer and withdrawal screening, continuous monitoring, and risk aggregation.
- Develop event-driven data ingestion and processing systems for high-volume blockchain activity with attention to correctness, throughput, and latency.
- Own scoped features from design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
- Modernize existing services and support incremental migrations with safe rollouts.
- Collaborate with Product and partner engineering teams to clarify requirements, evaluate tradeoffs, and deliver customer-focused changes.
- Improve automated tests, monitoring, and documentation; participate in code reviews, production debugging, incident response, and blameless postmortems.
Requirements
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools, including verifying and improving AI-generated output.
- Production experience building and maintaining backend services, APIs, and database integrations.
- Proficiency in an object-oriented programming language; the team primarily uses Java.
- Experience developing cloud-based services on AWS or another major cloud provider, with knowledge of microservices and distributed systems fundamentals.
- Experience with SQL and relational databases, including data modeling and query writing.
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures or streaming applications and the effects of failures, retries, and duplicate events on data correctness.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver well-tested code, diagnose issues, and take ownership of software in production.
- Clear communication and collaborative work with engineering and Product partners.
- Interest in blockchain and cryptocurrencies or willingness to learn; prior blockchain experience is not required.
- Preferred experience with Java, Spring, Kafka, Apache Flink, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, production observability tools, production migrations, strict-latency or high-availability customer-facing systems, or compliance, payments, fraud, and other regulated domains.
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About Chainalysis
Chainalysis builds blockchain data and analytics software used by law enforcement, regulators, crypto businesses, and financial institutions to investigate transactions and manage compliance risk. Its products include investigation tools and transaction monitoring offered via subscriptions and professional services. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York City, the privately held company serves global markets across cryptocurrencies and traditional finance.