Senior Blockchain Platform Engineer

What You Will Do

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
  
  

About You

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
  
  

Bonus points

• 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
  
  

Salary Bandings: $190,000 - $255,000 

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Benefits & Perks 💡

• 💰 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

• 🧘 Wellhub wellness membership: access to gyms, studios, classes, and wellness apps in one membership

• 🤖 Unlimited enterprise access to the latest AI tools: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and whatever's next

• 🍱 Lunch credit: meals covered on the days you're in the office

• 🪑 Home office setup allowance: build the home office of your dreams

• 👛 Remote working allowance: those working fully remotely get a little extra for utilities

• 🌕 Monthly product budget and zero-fee crypto transactions

• 📚 $1,000 Annual training budget: we support your learning journey

• 🎯 High Potential Program: structured development, mentorship, and stretch opportunities

• ✈️ Regular remote company offsites: high-impact in-person sessions and hackathons

• 🚲 (Ireland) Cycle to Work scheme: tax-efficient bike, gear, and safety kit

• 🔌 (UK) EV Salary Sacrifice: lease an electric vehicle through pre-tax salary

Sourced from MoonPay's official listing — full details and how to apply at the link above.