Senior Blockchain Analyst

It’s an exciting time to join Metrika, a Series A-funded startup that’s shaping the future of digital asset risk management. As a Senior Blockchain Analyst, you will play a critical role in analysing and interpreting blockchain and off-chain data to help financial institutions and regulators identify, measure, manage, and monitor blockchain risks.

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to the early stages of our platform, influence key initiatives, and become a domain expert in blockchain technology. If you have a strong background in data analysis, programming, and a passion for blockchain, we want to hear from you.

What you will be doing:

1. Blockchain Data Analysis: Analyse on-chain and off-chain data to uncover insights, trends, and anomalies that impact the operational health and viability of blockchain networks.

2. Smart Contract Analysis & Risk Indicators: Delve into the smart contract code of digital assets to understand their implementation and develop Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) to monitor these risks.

3. Data Ingestion & Synthesis: Identify data sources to collect data, build robust data ingestion services and create aggregate data sets and scripts to calculate synthetic derived metrics.

4. Dashboard & Alert Development: Design, develop, and QA dashboards, reports, and alerts to convey critical metrics and insights for the unique use cases of our users. Ensure comprehensive documentation of these dashboards and alerts, providing clear, user-friendly guides and explanations to help users understand and effectively utilise the platform’s features.

5. Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with Product and Engineering teams to refine and implement new data-driven product features, ensuring seamless integration into the Metrika Platform

6. Innovation & Research: Stay current with the latest blockchain and data science developments. Apply new techniques to enhance our analytical capabilities and contribute to the advancement of our platform.

What we look for in you:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science or related field

• At least 5 years of professional experience - includes internships and side projects

• 3+ years of programming experience in production environments (our team works predominantly with Python):

  • Ingesting data from APIs and databases

  • Data analysis and visualisation (pandas, matplotlib etc)

  • Unit and integration testing

  • Working knowledge of Git

• Experience querying, analysing and visualising data:

  • Experience writing queries for SQL or noSQL databases

  • Experience with data visualisation software (e.g. Tableau, Kibana, Grafana, Apache Superset)

  • Experience synthesising data to identify trends and tell a story

• Familiarity with or interest in blockchain platforms and tools (e.g., EVM-based chains, smart contracts)

  • Basic understanding of fundamental concepts and functionality of blockchain networks (e.g. consensus mechanisms, finality, decentralisation, etc.)

  • Basic understanding of functionality of smart contracts

  • Basic understanding of staking and tokenization

• Ability to work cross-functionally with other teams:

  • Understanding of product development processes

  • Familiarity working with Product and Engineering teams to support the refinement and implementation of product features

• Communications skills:

  • Communicate well with your team, both interactively and asynchronously

  • Be a positive, constructive team member

• Owning your work:

  • Ability to function unaided to solve problems and deliver your work

  • Ability to independently research new technologies and topics (e.g., blockchain protocols)

Nice to have!

• Prior experience in web3, crypto-native, digital assets companies or fintech startups.

• Experience with GenAI/LLMs and machine learning techniques, particularly in analysing unstructured data (e.g., natural language processing, sentiment analysis, clustering, and topic modelling) to extract meaningful insights, especially within blockchain or financial contexts.

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity compensation

• Medical insurance (based on location)

• Flexible working hours

• All-Remote

• Metrika offers a generous budget for your home office

• Supported attendance at blockchain conferences

• Budget to meet other Metrikaers in your locality, if applicable

Please note: Our Analytics team is predominantly based in Europe. This position is currently open to those residents and currently able to work in the European Economic Area (EU, Norway, Liechtenstein), Switzerland and the UK.

Metrika Inc. is an Equal Opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered without regard for race, colour, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion.