26 days ago
Responsibilities
- Define the technical strategy, architecture, and delivery sequence for a unified identity and KYC platform.
- Design and build a reusable identity layer supporting multiple MoonPay products, partners, and regulated use cases.
- Model identity lifecycles covering creation, verification, linking, updates, consent, and deletion.
- Build secure public-facing APIs and SDKs with stable contracts, versioning, migration paths, and documentation.
- Integrate KYC, KYB, and identity-verification providers while maintaining a consistent internal identity model.
- Design controls for authorization, consent, auditability, data residency, retention, deletion, and safe failure handling.
- Establish ownership boundaries between the identity platform and product teams and provide observability into identity journeys and verification decisions.
- Partner with product, engineering, security, privacy, legal, and compliance teams while continuing to design, build, review, and operate production systems.
Requirements
- Experience building or owning production identity, KYC, authentication, or customer-data infrastructure used across multiple products.
- Experience defining shared platform architecture rather than delivering only a single onboarding or login experience.
- Experience building public APIs and SDKs for external developers, including stability, versioning, documentation, and backward compatibility.
- Understanding of the security, privacy, and operational requirements for storing and processing sensitive identity data.
- Ability to reason across data models, verification providers, product workflows, compliance requirements, and failure modes.
- Experience shaping ambiguous problems into technical direction and aligning multiple teams.
- Hands-on experience designing, building, reviewing, and operating production systems.
- Preferred experience in payments, fintech, banking, or another regulated environment.
- Preferred experience with reusable verified identity, identity vaults, portable customer profiles, OAuth, OIDC, WebAuthn, passkeys, session management, account recovery, consent, data residency, privacy requests, audit trails, multiple KYC/KYB providers, or external developer platforms.
- Familiarity with cryptocurrency, wallets, digital-asset products, and the listed MoonPay technology stack.
Benefits
- Competitive salary package and equity ownership, including a pay-for-performance equity bonus and other equity awards.
- Employer pension contributions from day one, private healthcare benefits, enhanced parental leave, birthday leave, and Flexible Time Off.
- Flexible work arrangement: fully remote or hybrid from a nearby Moonbase, with remote working and home-office allowances.
- End-of-year Recharge Period, regular remote company offsites, wellness membership, lunch credit on office days, and monthly product budget with zero-fee crypto transactions.
- Employee referral program, annual training budget, High Potential Program, and enterprise access to Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and other AI tools.
- Location-specific commuter, cycle-to-work, and EV salary-sacrifice benefits where applicable.
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About MoonPay
MoonPay builds crypto payment infrastructure for consumers and businesses, offering fiat on- and off-ramps, stablecoin tools, and APIs/SDKs for checkout and wallets. Users can buy, sell, and transfer digital assets using cards, Apple Pay, PayPal, and Venmo, with built-in KYC/AML and licensing in the U.S., UK, EU, Canada, and Australia. Founded in 2018 and privately held, the company operates remotely and powers integrations for many Web3 and fintech products.