Mid/Senior-level GoLang Data Engineer (EU)

About Us

Inca Digital is a veteran-owned data and intelligence company specializing in digital-asset analytics for exchanges, financial institutions, regulators, and blockchain ecosystems. Our technology and expertise provide clarity across crypto markets, tracking blockchain transactions, liquidity movements, and illicit finance, helping clients identify risk, enhance transparency, and improve decision-making. Inca's infrastructure fuses structured and unstructured data from blockchains, exchanges, social networks, and financial markets. The result is a powerful analytics engine that supports ecosystem monitoring, market surveillance, and counter–illicit finance intelligence across digital-asset networks. Inca operates as a fast-paced, nimble, global, and remote technology company. We leverage an asynchronous-first workflow, try to minimize time spent on meetings, and believe in open debate and logic over authority. Work alongside some of the sharpest minds in the world, including intelligence analysts, defense veterans, data engineers, quant researchers, linguists, and more.

The Role

We are seeking a backend engineer with strong Golang expertise to design, build, and operate end-to-end data pipelines and services that power our intelligence platform. You will partner with our Head of R&D, engineers, data scientists, and investigations team to translate intelligence requirements into scalable client-facing products.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate end-to-end batch and incremental ETL/ELT pipelines, turning raw data into production-grade APIs, dashboards, and automated alerts
• Execute high-throughput data acquisition from diverse sources: relational databases, third-party and vendor APIs, flat files, blockchain nodes and indexers, and social and web text at scale
• Develop NLP pipelines working with unstructured and semi-structured text data — entity and claim extraction, classification, deduplication, and enrichment feeding downstream risk models
• Support case management, report generation, and intelligence portal systems
• Partner with the Head of R&D, engineers, data scientists, and the investigations team to translate intelligence requirements into scalable client-facing products
• Contribute to technical design and architecture in a written, argued design process
• Support improving system data quality and system maintenance: versioning, validation, lineage, reconciliation, and freshness monitoring

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional experience developing backend services with Golang
• Good knowledge of Go fundamentals, including concurrency and testing
• Experience with REST APIs and/or gRPC
• Experience working in AWS environments
• Experience with messaging systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, or similar
• Experience with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL
• Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Redis, or DynamoDB
• Familiarity with microservices and distributed systems
• Experience with Docker, Git, and CI/CD

Nice to Have

• Experience with Terraform
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Familiarity with observability tooling and practices

Why Join Us

• Fully remote, high-trust environment where we prioritize impact and delivered results over hours logged
• Competitive compensation paired with a comprehensive benefits suite, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k)
• Investment in our people through childcare and wellness stipends and dedicated employee assistance resources
• Join a thought leader at the intersection of national security and digital assets, working with cutting-edge tech that defines the field