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About the Company

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. Guided by our mission to make digital-asset intelligence seamlessly accessible, we design and scale the data streams and services that power Elliptic's analytics and decisioning products.

About the Role

Data Engineer

As a Data Engineer, you'll design and optimise systems that process large-scale blockchain and off-chain datasets, enabling organisations worldwide to make trusted, data-driven decisions. Whether you join one of our platform-focused teams or those that work directly on product data, you'll tackle challenges spanning batch and streaming processing, building high-quality, scalable solutions for a rapidly evolving ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• 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 distributed systems and platform architecture

Requirements

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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
• No Scala experience yet? If you are an experienced data engineer eager to learn, Elliptic will support you

Tech Stack

Scala, Spark, Databricks, AWS, Airflow, Kubernetes, Terraform, Functional Programming

Engineering Culture

Our engineering culture is grounded in openness, autonomy, and continuous improvement. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere, so our engineers are encouraged to experiment, ask questions, and learn quickly. We use functional programming for clarity and reliability, and we rely on peer reviews, data-driven decisions, and open discussions. Collaboration is central: you will work alongside diverse teams who share knowledge freely.

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
• 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• An extra day for your birthday
• Enhanced parental leave: 16 weeks of fully paid leave for eligible employees, regardless of gender or whether they become a parent by birth or adoption
• Private Health Insurance via Vitality
• Full access to Spill Mental Health Support
• Life Assurance: 4 times your salary to your beneficiaries
• Cycle to Work Scheme

Location

London, GB (Remote)