Software Engineer II, Compliance Core

Chainalysis Inc.

. Build and maintain backend services and APIs supporting transfer and withdrawal screening, continuous monitoring, and risk aggregation .

Posted 10/14/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $146,000 - $200,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building and maintaining backend services and APIs, with a strong focus on correctness, throughput, and latency. Proficient in cloud-based services, particularly on AWS, and experienced in compliance infrastructure related to blockchain risk management.

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Backend Service DevelopmentJava ProgrammingAWS Cloud ServicesSQL and Relational DatabasesEvent-Driven Architecture

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Hard Skills

Backend Service DevelopmentJava ProgrammingSQLEvent-Driven ArchitectureMicroservicesCloud-Based ServicesDatabase IntegrationAutomated TestingDebuggingSoftware Responsibility

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationCollaborative Approach

Tools & Technologies

AWSSpringKafkaApache FlinkKubernetesDockerTerraformProduction Observability Tools

Industry Keywords

BlockchainCompliancePaymentsFraudRegulated Domain

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ApacheAWSCloudDistributed SystemsDockerJavaKafkaKubernetesMicroservicesSpringSQLTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build and maintain backend services and APIs supporting transfer and withdrawal screening, continuous monitoring, and risk aggregation
Develop event-driven data ingestion and processing systems for growing volumes of blockchain activity
Focus on correctness, throughput, and latency
Own scoped features and improvements from design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production support
Contribute to platform modernization through incremental migrations and safe rollouts
Work with Product and partner engineering teams to clarify requirements, discuss tradeoffs, and deliver customer-focused changes
Improve automated tests, monitoring, and documentation
Participate in code reviews
Debug production issues
Contribute to incident response and blameless postmortems
Build and operate compliance infrastructure that evaluates blockchain risk and monitors activity across billions of transfers

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience using AI-assisted development tools, including verifying AI-generated output and improving the result
Experience building and maintaining backend services in production, including APIs and database integrations
Proficiency in an object-oriented programming language; Java is primarily used
Experience developing cloud-based services on AWS or another major cloud provider
Understanding of microservices and distributed systems fundamentals
Experience with SQL and relational databases, including designing data models and writing queries
Familiarity with event-driven architectures or streaming applications
Understanding of failures, retries, and duplicate events and their effect on data correctness
Record of delivering well-tested code, diagnosing issues, and taking responsibility for software
Clear communication and collaborative approach with engineering and Product partners
Interest in blockchain and cryptocurrencies, or eagerness to learn
Experience with Java and Spring, Kafka, or Apache Flink is nice to have
Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, or production observability tools is nice to have
Experience improving or migrating production systems while maintaining service continuity is nice to have
Experience with customer-facing systems with strict latency or availability requirements is nice to have
Background in compliance, payments, fraud, or another regulated domain is nice to have
Legally authorized to work for any employer in the United States without restrictions
Must not require sponsorship to maintain United States work authorization

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity
Bonus
Accommodation for disabilities during the interview process
Diversity and inclusion initiatives
Voluntary and anonymous EEOC survey participation
Applicant privacy policy and future contact consent period of 2 years