Elliptic

Data Engineer

Elliptic

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • United Kingdom

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Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesScalaSparkTerraform

About the role

  • 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 our 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
  • Bonus points for: 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
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 of fully paid leave.
  • Private Health Insurance - we use Vitality!
  • Full access to Spill Mental Health Support
  • Life Assurance: we hope you will never need this - but our cover is for 4 times your salary to your beneficiaries
  • £100 Crypto for you!
  • Cycle to Work Scheme
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Hard Skills & Tools
ScalaSparkDatabrickscloud technologiesdata ingestiondata transformationInfrastructure as Codestreaming processingAIautomation
Soft Skills
collaborationreliabilityscalabilityefficiencydesign evaluationcontinuous improvementinfluenceresponsibilityunderstandingobservability