Moonshot
Staff Backend & Platform Engineer – FinOps, IAM & Blockchain
remote • USA • senior • Не указана
**Moonshot** is the “Robinhood for DeFi”—an iOS and Android app that lets anyone trade cryptocurrencies on-chain through a user-friendly interface.
Since our launch in July 2024, we’ve attracted 2M+ users.
**Our mission:** Make moonshots possible for everyone.
**Our vision:** Make a world where life-changing financial outcomes are within everyone's reach.
Everyone on our team is both a decision-maker and an implementer—united by a sense of urgency and driven by the conviction that our work can transform global finance. If you thrive on curiosity, welcome tough challenges, and aspire to leave a meaningful mark on the world, Moonshot is the place for you. You’ll run toward the hardest problems alongside high-caliber teammates who consistently push each other to excel and who share your dedication to shaping the future of decentralized finance.
This role is full-time, preferably located in NYC. Open to remote for the right candidate.
### The Opportunity
As a Staff Backend & Platform Engineer at Moonshot, you’ll own some of the most critical systems in our stack: identity and access, funds movement and ledgering, and the blockchain infrastructure that powers our on-chain trading. This role is similar to staff engineers at leading crypto wallets and exchanges who own authentication stacks, key management, and high-scale financial backends. You’ll design, build, and operate systems that must be both highly reliable and extremely secure, enabling product teams to move quickly on a solid foundation.
### What You’ll Do
* Design, build, and operate **Identity & Access Management** services:
* Authentication flows, sessions, device trust.
* Authorization and entitlements (roles, permissions, policies).
* Security controls such as MFA and key management (working with security teams).
* Own **financial operations systems**:
* Transfers and payments orchestration.
* Ledgering and reconciliation flows.
* Limits, risk controls, and transactional correctness.
* Build and maintain **blockchain infrastructure**:
* Node and RPC management.
* Transaction submission, monitoring, and retry logic.
* Indexing and streaming of on-chain data into internal services and data stores.
* Define and uphold **reliability and observability standards**:
* SLOs and error budgets for core services.
* Dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and incident management practices.
* Lead **large, cross-functional technical projects** from design through rollout, collaborating with Product, Security, and Ops.
* Mentor and guide other engineers, contributing to **engineering standards, design reviews, and documentation**.
* Stay close to **industry best practices** in auth, key management, and secure infrastructure for crypto and trading.
### What We Look For in You
* 5–12+ years of backend or product or platform engineering, including **experience with high-scale, high-availability systems** in fintech, crypto, or similar domains.
* Deep expertise in at least one of:
* **Identity & access / security engineering**
* **Financial systems / ledgering / payments**
* **Blockchain infrastructure / on-chain data**
* Strong experience designing and operating **distributed systems** (datastores, queues, streaming, background workers).
* Track record driving **architecture decisions** and seeing them through implementation and adoption.
* Strong operational mindset: **monitoring, on-call, incident response, and postmortems**.
* Excellent collaboration skills, especially with Product, Security, and Ops.
### Nice to Haves
* Experience with Flutter, React Native, React, Headless CRMs
* Experience with Go, Rust, Solana
* Experience with Google Cloud or Amazon Web Services
* Experience with **crypto wallets, exchanges, or onchain protocols including DeFi, L2s, ZK**
* Exposure to **data warehousing and analytics** for financial reporting.
* Contributions to **open-source projects**.
### Location
* NYC preferred (with periodic in-person sprints).
* Remote-friendly within the United States and Canada; travel ~1wk/quarter
### Compensation & Package
* Competitive salary and meaningful equity.
* 5% 401(k) match.
* Health benefits with employer-covered premiums, plus life insurance coverage.
* One-time office setup stipend.
* Flexible PTO.