Crypto Intelligence Engineer

Department: Intelligence Collection

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: London, UK

Reporting To: Simon Pickles

Description

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build software tools to improve and enhance our intelligence collection and analysis efforts. Examples of such tools range from compiled build-and-load programs up to browser extensions and web applications.
• Develop software to analyse and interpret cryptocurrency usage behaviours and trends on the clear and dark web
• Implement observability mechanisms (we use DataDog) to detect problems in your environment(s), and run the associated business processes to resolve
• Work with the existing engineers on your team to foster their growth and development, and facilitate best practices, through mentoring and coaching
• Be highly opinionated about the engineering strategy of your team, and a key contributor to the same.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• Have a passionate interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchains and their usage (both from a technical and economic perspective) in the real-world
• Demonstrably great coding skills in at least one language and the proven ability to engineer good solutions
• Have increased operational efficiency by integrating disparate systems
• Enjoy working as part of a close-knit team on highly impactful problems
• Promote a positive culture of collaboration, through open and effective communication, particularly when addressing issues or raising concerns.
• Are able to form well reasoned, data driven or otherwise evidence based arguments, to influence key stakeholders across the business.

• Has 5+ years commercial experience
• Expert level in (Javascript|Typescript|Python)
• Familiar with Postgres and K8s
• Familiarity with AWS
• Has built infrastructure with Terraform

• Has worked in an intelligence collection setting
• Experience with “big data” technologies, the management of data, and data pipelines
• Familiarity with functional programming concepts
• Has run production workloads of 1000s QPS

Job Benefits

• 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 and leave.

• Private Health Insurance - we use Vitality!
• Full access to Spill Mental Health Support
• Life Assurance: we hope you will never need this - but our cover is for 4 times your salary to your beneficiaries
• £100 Crypto for you!
• Cycle to Work Scheme