Engineering Team Lead

The engineering team at Chainalysis is inspired by solving the hardest technical challenges and creating products that build trust in cryptocurrencies. We’re a global organization with teams in Denmark, UK, Canada, and the USA who thrive on challenging work and collaborating with exceptionally talented teammates. Our industry changes every day, and our mission is to create user-facing products supported by a flexible and scalable data platform, allowing us to adapt to rapid changes and bring immense value to our customers.

## In this job, you’ll: - **Lead & Mentor:** Drive a team of experienced software engineers, providing technical guidance, career coaching, and fostering a culture of high performance and continuous learning. - **Build & Scale Data Pipelines**: Own the architecture of our ETLs and data layers. You’ll be responsible for making systems run 100x faster and handling massive data volumes with precision. - **Lead Technical Excellence:** Once in the Lead role, you will mentor a team of senior engineers, driving code quality, performance-critical flows, and architectural standards. - **Drive the Roadmap:** Partner with Product Managers to translate complex fraud-prevention requirements into robust, production-grade technical solutions. - **Optimize Everything:** From PostgreSQL queries to Kubernetes-based deployments, you will look for ways to overhaul scalability and efficiency across the stack.

## We’re looking for candidates who have: - **Deep Python Expertise:** You are a Python expert who understands the nuances of the language, and knows your way around FastAPI and serving requests at scale. - **The Data Mindset:** You have a proven track record of building and optimizing Data Pipelines, ETLs, and Big Data systems. You know how to handle data at scale. - **AI-First Engineering Mindset:** You are an "AI-First" developer who leverages AI tools to accelerate development. You understand how to support, build, and deploy tooling that employs AI (LLMs, agents, etc.) throughout the organization and tech stack. - **Seniority with Ambition:** 6+ years of backend experience. You’ve likely led projects or mentored teams and are ready to officially step into a Team Lead role. - **Database Mastery**: Strong familiarity with PostgreSQL (performance tuning is a plus), Redis, and BigQuery. - **Solid Communicator:** You are a great communicator - highly effective at coordinating with leaders and fellow leads to solve complex problems across teams. - **Startup DNA**: You prefer a "get it done" environment. You want to feel the impact of your work and thrive in a high-growth, technical culture. - **High Standards**: take pride in clean, scalable, and testable code.

Chainalysis is a blockchain data platform providing intelligence, risk management, compliance, investigation software, and services to government agencies, financial institutions, cryptocurrency businesses, and other organizations. It helps track illicit activities, ensure regulatory compliance, prevent fraud, and support growth in the crypto ecosystem, serving over 1500 customers across 70+ countries. The platform has been used in high-profile cases like the Mt. Gox hack, Silk Road, and FTX collapse.