MoonPay

Senior Blockchain Engineer

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25 days ago

Base Salary

$150k - $210k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and improve high-volume transaction broadcasting pipelines.
  • Manage transaction lifecycles, including detection, retrying, rebroadcasting, and safe recovery of stuck transactions.
  • Contribute to wallet infrastructure, automation systems, monitoring, observability, and operational guardrails.
  • Design financially correct, reconcilable, auditable systems with safe parallel transaction handling.
  • Build cross-chain and multi-step infrastructure for fiat-to-chain and chain-to-fiat journeys.
  • Design state machines and recovery strategies for partial failures across non-atomic multi-step flows.
  • Support routing and swap execution while considering price impact, liquidity changes, slippage, and MEV.
  • Build reliable off-chain services that interact with on-chain contracts.
  • Participate in project estimation, planning, implementation, testing, incident response, and post-mortems.
  • Improve alerting, system resilience, reliability, and infrastructure scalability.

Requirements

  • Strong backend and platform engineering fundamentals.
  • Experience operating production systems with real uptime requirements.
  • Hands-on experience interacting with live blockchain networks in production.
  • Clear understanding of the transaction lifecycle and failure recovery in at least one blockchain.
  • Experience with at least one wallet infrastructure or custody system, such as Ethereum, Bitcoin, or Solana.
  • Awareness of MEV, slippage, pricing impact, and swap execution risks.
  • Experience with high-throughput or financial systems is valued.
  • Experience at exchanges, custody providers, wallet infrastructure teams, or high-volume DeFi platforms is a bonus.
  • Familiarity with UTXO-based chains, including Bitcoin coin selection and fee-bumping strategies such as RBF and CPFP, is a bonus.
  • Experience designing cross-chain or multi-step transaction orchestration systems is a bonus.
  • Familiarity with blockchain indexing or event-ingestion pipelines is a bonus.
  • Understanding of ERC-20 and SPL token standards and backend interaction with smart contracts is a bonus.

Benefits

  • Equity package and pay-for-performance equity bonus.
  • Flexible time off and birthday leave.
  • Enhanced parental leave.
  • Fully remote or hybrid work from a nearest Moonbase.
  • Pension contributions, private healthcare, commuter benefits, and Wellhub wellness membership.
  • Unlimited enterprise access to Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and other AI tools.
  • Lunch credit for office days, home office setup allowance, and remote working allowance.
  • Monthly product budget and zero-fee crypto transactions.
  • $1,000 annual training budget, mentorship, structured development, and stretch opportunities.
  • Regular remote company offsites, hackathons, and location-specific Ireland and UK programs.

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