About this role

▸about Elliptic — company background

Do you enjoy building scalable products that empower compliance teams to track fund flows and uncover deeper insights in financial data? Are you excited to solve complex engineering challenges that improve speed, precision, and usability across investigative workflows?

Elliptic is seeking a Software Engineering Lead to join our Investigations team. This is a unique opportunity to make a tangible impact at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and financial crime prevention. You’ll lead a team of talented product and data engineers dedicated to building powerful tools that help investigators worldwide uncover and stop illicit activity in the crypto space.

The impact you will have:

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.

What you will do:

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.