The vacancy is well-structured with clear responsibilities and tech stack, but lacks specific compensation details.
Job description
At **Elliptic**, we’re building the intelligence layer for the future of finance. Our teams transform complex blockchain and off‑chain data into actionable insight, empowering financial institutions, regulators, and businesses to innovate with confidence.
Responsibilities
## What you will do
- Build and maintain distributed data pipelines using Scala, Spark, and cloud technologies
- Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, and product teams to deliver reliable, scalable data systems
- Design and optimise data ingestion and transformation workflows across blockchain and traditional datasets
- Ensure accuracy, scalability, and efficiency in systems processing hundreds of millions of daily data points
- Evaluate design options and trade‑offs across performance, scalability, reliability, and cost
- Contribute to the full lifecycle of data platform development from design and deployment to continuous improvement
- Strengthen pipeline reliability, observability, and automation through code and tooling improvements
- Grow your influence and take on greater responsibility as you deepen your understanding of our distributed systems and platform architecture
Requirements
## What we are looking for
- Experience delivering and maintaining distributed data pipelines
- Practical knowledge of Spark, Databricks, or similar big data frameworks
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Understanding of data-architecture trade‑offs, such as scalability, resilience, and observability
- Interest or experience in functional programming
**Bonus points for:**
- Experience in streaming processing concepts like delivery semantics, ordering or partitioning
- Hands‑on work with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation)
- Knowledge of container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm)
- An interest in blockchain and cryptocurrency technology, or a desire to learn
- Experience applying AI or automation within deployed services
Conditions
## 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 of fully paid 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
- Cycle to Work Scheme
About Elliptic
Elliptic is a blockchain analytics firm that provides cryptoasset anti-money laundering, sanctions compliance, and financial crime prevention tools using blockchain analytics. It serves financial institutions, crypto businesses, and government agencies worldwide with real-time wallet screening, transaction monitoring, and investigative solutions. Founded in 2013, it pioneered these tools and is recognized for its leadership in crypto compliance.