Role in brief
MoonPay is seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to develop high-throughput backend services for financial operations in a hybrid work environment. Candidates with strong backend experience in Rust, Go, C#, or C++ and a passion for crypto should consider applying.
About the role
In this role, you will design and maintain backend services that handle significant volumes of financial transactions, ensuring accuracy and reliability. You will work autonomously, taking ownership of features from conception to deployment, and collaborate with various teams to enhance engineering quality.
MoonPay Enterprise operates at a fast pace, focusing on building infrastructure that facilitates value movement in the crypto space. The company values outcomes over processes, encouraging a mindset geared towards impact and innovation. Success in this role means delivering features quickly while maintaining high standards of correctness and security.
The salary range for this role is between $135,000 and $225,000, reflecting the competitive nature of the position.
Skills that matter here
- Rust: You will primarily work with Rust to build and operate backend services.
- Go: Experience with Go is beneficial for backend development.
- C#: C# expertise is relevant for backend systems.
- C++: C++ knowledge is applicable in the context of backend engineering.
- distributed systems: Understanding distributed systems is crucial for handling financial transactions.
- API design: You will be involved in improving API design for better integration with external partners.
Who this role suits
- A candidate who enjoys solving complex problems and values ownership.
- Someone comfortable with high-pressure environments and rapid feature delivery.
- An individual who communicates effectively and thrives in collaborative settings.
- A person with a keen interest in financial systems and the future of payments.
From the employer
Design, build, and operate backend services written in Rust that process high volumes of financial transactions with strong guarantees around correctness, idempotency, and auditability.
- Own features end to end, from shaping the product spec through technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production monitoring. You won’t just receive work from product: as a domain expert, you’ll help define what we build and propose the work you consider most useful.
- Integrate with external partners such as banks, payment processors, blockchains, and identity and compliance vendors, and build the abstractions that make those integrations reliable.
- Improve engineering quality across observability, incident response, security practices, and API design.
- Collaborate closely with product, compliance, and other engineering teams across MoonPay’s global network.
- (Staff level) Set technical direction for your area, mentor other engineers, and drive architectural decisions that span multiple teams.
5+ years of backend engineering experience (8+ for Staff), with a track record of shipping and operating production systems at scale.
- Strong backend experience with a statically compiled language (e.g. Rust, Go, C#, C++) is a must. Deep fundamentals matter more to us than your specific language history.
- Prior professional Rust experience is not required, but interest in Rust and motivation to become an expert in it are very welcome, since our services are written in Rust.
- Solid fundamentals in distributed systems, API design, data modeling, and asynchronous processing.
- Comfort working in domains where precision matters, such as financial systems, double-entry ledgers, reconciliation, or similarly correctness-critical software.
- A pragmatic, autonomous, ownership-driven mindset. You care about outcomes, communicate clearly, and thrive on high throughput: on this team, features ship in hours to days and products in days to weeks.
- Strong critical thinking, including in how you use AI tools. You know how to drive AI-assisted development productively while staying firmly in control of correctness, security, and design quality.
- Interest in crypto, stablecoins, and the future of payments. Prior crypto experience is a plus rather than a requirement, except for Track 3, where hands-on blockchain development experience is expected.
💰 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. 20 employees a year, each ea
Questions about this role
What is the remote policy?
This role is hybrid, allowing for work from Berlin or New York.
What level of seniority is this position?
The position is open for senior and staff level engineers.
How can I apply for this role?
Interested candidates can apply through the MoonPay website.