Senior Blockchain Platform Engineer

MoonPayHybrid

EngineeringSenior

MoonPay is hiring a Senior Blockchain Platform Engineer to build scalable transaction, wallet, cross-chain, observability, and recovery infrastructure.

About the Role

MoonPay is for builders with something to prove.

This isn't a "work on cool crypto stuff" company. It's a high-standards, high-velocity, high-accountability company building the operating system for value movement. If the internet moves information, we move value: crypto, stablecoins, tokenized assets, and whatever comes next. Four offerings make that real: fund, tokenize, trade, and spend. 30M+ customers and 500+ ecosystem partners run on us. Licensed in the U.S. Regulated across the UK, EU, Canada, and Australia.

AI is the default operating mode here. It's woven into every role, and we expect you to use it daily. It handles the manual work so you can deliver on what actually matters.

You'll thrive here if outcomes excite you more than process, if impact motivates you more than titles, and if you want hard problems, real ownership, and teammates who love winning, building, and doing it together.

The bar is high. The pace is real. We're building for what's next, for humans and agents.

Forbes' America's Best Startup Employers 2026 . 2nd in Crypto Services on Fortune's inaugural Crypto 100,

The Sunday Times Best Places to Work two years running.

Responsibilities

Transaction Infrastructure at Scale

Design and improve high-volume transaction broadcasting pipelines

Manage transaction lifecycle

Detect, retry, rebroadcast, and safely recover stuck transactions

Wallet & Lifecycle Management

Contribute to wallet infrastructure and automation systems
Implement safe parallel transaction handling
Improve monitoring, observability, and operational guardrails
Design systems with financial correctness and reconciliation and auditability in mind

Cross-Chain & DeFi Integrations

Build infrastructure supporting cross chain and multi step flows (fiat to on-chain and vice versa)
Handle non-atomic multi-step journeys across chains
Design state machines and recovery strategies for partial failure scenarios
Support routing mechanics and swap execution considerations such as price impact, liquidity changes, including MEV awareness
Build reliable off-chain services that interact with on-chain contracts

End-to-End Engineering Ownership

Participate in estimation, planning, and execution of projects, features, and integrations
Develop and maintain thoroughly tested, high-quality, and performant code
Collaborate closely with Product Managers to design scalable implementation strategies
Contribute to reliable, maintainable systems that evolve with product needs
Participate in incident response and post-mortems
Improve reliability, alerting, and system resilience
Continuously evolve infrastructure to support growing volume and complexity

Requirements

Must-Have
Strong backend/platform engineering fundamentals
Experience operating production systems with real uptime requirements
Hands-on experience interacting with live blockchain networks in production
Clear understanding of transaction lifecycle in at least 1 Blockchain and failure recovery
You think in failure modes, not just happy paths
Strong Signals
You can explain a real production incident end-to-end
Experience with at least 1 wallet infrastructure (Eth, Bitcoin, Solana) or custody systems
Awareness of MEV, slippages, pricing impact and swap execution risks
Experience with high-throughput or financial systems

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working at exchanges, custody providers, wallet infrastructure teams, or high-volume DeFi platforms
Familiarity with UTXO-based chains (e.g., Bitcoin), including coin selection and fee bumping strategies (RBF / CPFP)
Experience designing cross-chain or multi-step transaction orchestration systems
Familiarity with blockchain indexing or event ingestion pipelines
Understanding of common token standards (ERC-20, SPL) and interacting with smart contracts from backend services

Benefits

💰 Competitive salary package
🤝 Equity package: financial freedom starts with our employees, so all employees have ownership at MoonPay
📈 Pay-for-performance equity bonus: those who drive outsized outcomes receive outsized rewards
🚀 Moonshot award: we honor exceptional impact. 10 employees twice a year, each earning a $250,000 equity grant
📊Pension: employer contributions from day one
🎁Employee referral program: refer great people, earn 10K in USDC
🏝 Flexible Time Off: choose when to work and when to switch off
🎂 Birthday leave: take the day off to celebrate you
🍼 Enhanced parental leave: more time with family, no second thought
🌍 Hybrid working schedule: work fully remotely or from your nearest Moonbase
🚆 Commuter benefits: public transport to and from the office
🩺 Private healthcare benefits: to protect you and your loved ones