Software Engineering Lead

🔥 5 hours ago

🏢🏡 London – Hybrid

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Elliptic

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2013

₿ Crypto

📋 Compliance

☁️ SaaS

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 Corporate Round - Elliptic on 2025-09

Crypto • Compliance • SaaS

Elliptic is a provider of enterprise-grade blockchain analytics and crypto compliance software that helps financial institutions, exchanges, network operators, regulators, and law enforcement detect, investigate, and manage crypto-related financial crime and regulatory risk. Its products include VASP/entity screening, wallet and transaction monitoring, cross-chain investigations, threat intelligence, stablecoin issuer and ecosystem monitoring, and data ingestion and API integrations. Elliptic also offers training and certifications to upskill compliance and forensic teams and delivers its services as configurable, scalable SaaS and API solutions for compliance, surveillance, and forensic workflows.

📋 Description

• As Lead of the Investigations team, you'll shape how compliance teams track fund flows and prevent financial crime. • Working closely with the product, you'll help define the technical direction of the platform by turning complex blockchain data into simple, useful product features. • You will lead an empowered team that takes full ownership of its technology stack and product domain. • You’ll coach and develop high-performing talent, cultivate a culture of innovation and accountability, and collaborate across the business to deliver meaningful value to our users. • Write and review code to unblock the team, demonstrate best practices, and pair with engineers to share knowledge and tackle challenging problems. • Help your team make sound technical decisions by weighing trade-offs and choosing approaches that balance technical quality with business objectives. • Work closely with Product and other stakeholders to make sure the team is focused on the work that matters most. • Help team members find their own solutions by building problem-solving skills and creating a self-sufficient, resilient team. • Provide system context and overviews to new team members, accelerating their onboarding and productivity. • Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to engineers, managers, and business stakeholders.

🎯 Requirements

• You’ve led or mentored a small engineering team (around 3–6 people). • You have strong JavaScript and TypeScript skills across both backend (Node.js) and frontend (React) development, and you’re familiar with frameworks such as NestJS or Redux. • You think architecturally, designing scalable UI applications and APIs, and you’re comfortable making informed decisions about technology choices and patterns. • You have a strong delivery record, having led technical initiatives end-to-end while driving collaboration and maintaining high engineering standards. • You communicate clearly, explaining technical ideas in a way that ensures alignment across engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders. • You actively use AI coding assistants (Copilot, Cursor, Claude, etc.) as part of their daily workflow, can critically evaluate AI-generated code, and understands when AI tools are useful and when they're not

🏖️ 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 • Private Health Insurance - we use Vitality! • Full access to Spill Mental Health Support • Life Assurance: 4 times your salary to your beneficiaries • Cycle to Work Scheme