Senior Fullstack Engineer
Elliptic
Software Engineering
London, UK
Posted on Jan 10, 2026
About the Role
As a senior engineer in our Collection Engineering team, you’ll be working in the heart of Elliptic, building a platform for our intelligence organisation to efficiently and robustly collect intel on crypto crime and make the world a safer place.
The mission of your new team is to scale the collection efforts of Elliptic. Streams of intelligence come from myriad sources: external feeds, internal automation, internal analysis, client submitted data. It all needs to be classified, stored, and reviewed, before it can be processed into our market leading proprietary graph database.
You will work with a team of engineers and data scientists to create tooling, optimise processes, and remove bottlenecks in these intel pipelines.
- Department
- Intelligence Collection
- Employment Type
- Permanent
- Location
- London, UK
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
- Reporting To
- Simon Pickles
Key Responsibilities
What you will do
- Design and build software tools to improve and enhance our intelligence collection and analysis efforts. Examples of such tools range from services deployed on kubernetes to browser extensions and beyond.
- Develop software to analyse and interpret cryptocurrency usage behaviours and trends on the clear and dark web.
- Implement observability mechanisms 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
You will be a great fit here if you
- Have a passionate interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchains and their usage (both from a technical and economic perspective) in the real-world.
- Have great coding skills Typescript 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, making the crypto ecosystem a safer space.
- 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.
- Know when to build PoC vs production grade software.
Required Skills and Experience
- 5+ years of commercial experience
- Expert level in Typescript, plus React, Nest.js
- Familiar with Postgres and K8s
- Experience with AWS, Terraform, Datadog
Bonus points
- Has worked in an intelligence collection setting
- Experience with “big data” technologies, the management of data, and data pipelines
Job Benefits
> How we work:
- 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
> Learning & Development:
- $1,000 Learning & Development budget to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development
> Vacation/ Leave:
- 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.
> Benefits:
- 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
About Elliptic
Elliptic is the leader in digital asset decisioning, we have built the most comprehensive platform for efficiently extracting crypto data and intelligence across blockchains with the greatest accuracy.
Our platform’s unrivalled uptime, scalability, depth and breadth of our data and intelligence means exacting organizations choose Elliptic for their compliance, risk management, intelligence operations and blockchain infrastructure needs.
Founded in 2013, Elliptic is headquartered in London with offices in New York, Washington D.C., UAE, Singapore and Tokyo. To learn more, visit www.elliptic.co and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
Our platform’s unrivalled uptime, scalability, depth and breadth of our data and intelligence means exacting organizations choose Elliptic for their compliance, risk management, intelligence operations and blockchain infrastructure needs.
Founded in 2013, Elliptic is headquartered in London with offices in New York, Washington D.C., UAE, Singapore and Tokyo. To learn more, visit www.elliptic.co and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
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