Software Engineering Lead
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Requirements
• Team leadership experience — you've led or mentored a small engineering team (roughly 3–6 people) and helped engineers grow in their careers. • Strong JavaScript/TypeScript skills across backend (Node.js) and frontend (React) development. Familiarity with frameworks like NestJS or Redux is a plus. • Architectural thinking — you've designed scalable UI applications and APIs, and you're comfortable making informed decisions about technology choices and patterns. • Delivery track record — you've led technical initiatives end-to-end, driving collaboration and maintaining high engineering standards. • Clear communication — you can explain technical ideas so that everyone from engineers to product managers stays aligned. • Experience with data visualisation, particularly libraries or tools for rendering network graphs or complex data flows. • Familiarity with cloud technologies such as AWS Serverless, API Gateway, Kubernetes, or Terraform. • Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Datadog. • Interest or experience in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology — though we're happy to help you learn. • Don't Check Every Box? • We know that some candidates are less likely to apply unless they meet every single requirement. If you're excited about this role and our mission but your experience doesn't perfectly align, we'd still love to hear from you. Diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and skill sets make our team and our product stronger. • Ensuring that people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences feel welcome at Elliptic is an ongoing priority for us. We believe that diverse thinking and cultures enable us to solve problems in new ways — benefiting both Elliptic and our customers.
Responsibilities
• As Lead of the Investigations team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of crypto investigations and how compliance teams track and prevent financial crime. • Working closely with the product team, you’ll help define the technical direction of our product that’s quickly becoming the industry standard. You will work with product and data engineers to turn complex data into simple, useful product features and lead the development of new improvements across the platform. • In this role, you will also coach and mentor a high-performing team, foster innovation, and partner with cross-functional teams to ensure we deliver meaningful value to our users and set the benchmark for excellence in crypto investigations. • Write and review code to unblock the team, or demonstrate best practices, and pair with team members to share knowledge and tackle challenging technical issues. • Help your team make sound technical decisions by considering trade-offs and choosing approaches that align with both technical excellence and business objectives. • Work closely with the Product team and other stakeholders to ensure the team works on meaningful missions. • Help team members find their own solutions, building problem-solving skills and creating a self-sufficient, resilient team. • Provide system overviews and context to new team members, accelerating their integration and productivity. • Attend regular lead meetings to share updates and exchange best practices. • Explain complex technical concepts to engineers, managers, and business stakeholders to ensure quality delivery and collaboration. • Balance technical quality with business needs, knowing when to aim for perfection and when good enough helps the team move and learn faster. • Care about writing clean, reliable code and enjoy working across backend, frontend, and data systems to build great products. • Explain technical ideas clearly so everyone from engineers to product managers stays aligned and informed. • Help team members grow by coaching, encouraging confidence and ownership in their work. • Focus on what really matters by delivering meaningful results that serve both users and the business. • Foster a supportive, open, and collaborative team culture where everyone can do their best work.
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 • Learning & Development • $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 • £100 cryptocurrency for you! • Cycle to Work Scheme