Engineering Team Lead, Alterya at Chainalysis Inc.

The engineering team at Chainalysis is inspired by solving the hardest technical challenges and building products that establish trust in cryptocurrencies. We're a global organization that thrives on challenging work and doing it alongside exceptionally talented teammates. Our industry evolves rapidly, and our mission is to build a flexible, AI-driven platform that automates entity resolution, optimizes data labeling pipelines, and creates predictive models that identify illicit patterns before they escalate. Our data and solutions have been used to solve some of the world's most high-profile criminal cases and grow consumer access to cryptocurrency safely. Now, by pairing the industry's most trusted blockchain data with agents that reason, investigate, and act, we help our customers scale their workflows as the cryptocurrency economy becomes increasingly mainstream. We are looking for a Staff-level Backend Engineer who is ready to transition into an Engineering Team Lead role within 3–6 months for our Alterya team. This team operates as an innovation hub in Tel Aviv at the intersection of AI, fraud prevention, and large-scale data intelligence, where you will eventually be responsible for the growth, delivery, and technical excellence for one if its core squads. As an Engineering Team Lead, you will be a pivotal leader in our mission. You will lead a high-performing team of engineers building and scaling the APIs and data layers that global institutions rely on to stop crime, manage risk, and fight fraud. In this job, you’ll: Lead & Mentor: Drive a team of experienced software engineers, providing technical guidance, career coaching, and fostering a culture of high performance and continuous learning. Build & Scale Data Pipelines : Own the architecture of our ETLs and data layers. You’ll be responsible for making systems run 100x faster and handling massive data volumes with precision. Lead Technical Excellence: Once in the Lead role, you will mentor a team of senior engineers, driving code quality, performance-critical flows, and architectural standards. Drive the Roadmap: Partner with Product Managers to translate complex fraud-prevention requirements into robust, production-grade technical solutions. Optimize Everything: From PostgreSQL queries to Kubernetes-based deployments, you will look for ways to overhaul scalability and efficiency across the stack. We’re looking for candidates who have: Deep Python Expertise: You are a Python expert who understands the nuances of the language, and knows your way around FastAPI and serving requests at scale The Data Mindset: You have a proven track record of building and optimizing Data Pipelines, ETLs, and Big Data systems. You know how to handle data at scale. AI-First Engineering Mindset: You are an "AI-First" developer who leverages AI tools to accelerate development. You understand how to support, build, and deploy tooling that employs AI (LLMs, agents, etc.) throughout the organization and