Senior Software Engineer, Alterya
Alterya by Chainalysis is an AI-powered crypto fraud prevention tool designed to safeguard customers from authorized push-payment (APP) fraud and secure platforms with advanced threat intelligence.
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About Alterya by Chainalysis
Alterya by Chainalysis connects crypto fraud across financial identifiers to block scams instantly. It safeguards customers from authorized push-payment (APP) fraud and secures platforms with AI-powered threat intelligence. The service detects and blocks fraudulent payments before funds leave a customer's account, monitors over $8B in monthly transactions, and protects over 100M users. It helps businesses grow by reducing false declines and increasing approval rates, thereby building customer trust and ensuring compliance with fraud management regulations. Alterya provides 360° protection from scams and money mules by automatically preventing payments to scammers, identifying fraudulent accounts during KYC processes, linking scam activity across networks with reliable intelligence, and tracking fraudulent activity on the platform.
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About the Role
You'll join a core team of experienced developers building production-grade backend services, data solutions, infrastructure, and data collection capabilities in a multi-cloud, hybrid SAAS infrastructure that supports production. You'll collaborate with your peers to define architecture, quality standards, and best practices, manage multiple projects and deadlines proactively, work closely with different sections of the R&D team as well as other business units, and deliver simple, high-quality, maintainable and well-tested code and solutions.
Requirements
- Extensive experience as a backend developer, demonstrating a track record of delivering high-quality products
- Strong proficiency in Python
- Familiarity with Redis, BigQuery, PostgreSQL (or equivalent SQL language)
- Ability to be independent and proactive, as well as a team player
- Great communication and ability to simplify complex ideas and collaborate effectively with others
- A strong sense of ownership and responsibility over work and tasks
- Experience in Cloud based architecture (nice to have)
- A track record in contributing to open source projects (nice to have)
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with peers to define architecture, quality standards, and best practices
- Manage multiple projects and deadlines proactively
- Interface closely with different sections in the R&D team as well as other business units
- Deliver simple, high-quality, maintainable and well tested code and solutions