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Overview
Join Moonpay as a Staff Data Engineer to lead the design and evolution of our data platform. Work on complex challenges in a high-velocity environment, shaping the future of value movement in crypto. MoonPay is for builders with something to prove. This isn't a "work on cool crypto stuff" company. It's a high-standards, high-velocity, high-accountability company building the operating system for value movement. If the internet moves information, we move value: crypto, stablecoins, tokenized assets, and whatever comes next. Four offerings make that real: fund, tokenize, trade, and spend. 30M+ customers and 500+ ecosystem partners run on us. Licensed in the U.S. Regulated across the UK, EU, Canada, and Australia.
What you'll do
As a Staff Data Engineer on our Data Platform team, you’ll provide technical leadership across the platform while remaining closely involved in design and delivery.
Day-to-day, you will
- •Set and evolve the technical direction of our data platform across streaming, batch processing, warehousing, orchestration, governance, and machine learning enablement.
- •Lead the design and delivery of complex, cross-team initiatives from early architectural decisions through to implementation.
- •Design and build core platform capabilities, from reliable real-time pipelines, shared tooling, reusable frameworks, and scalable data infrastructure for other teams.
- •Establish and champion golden paths that enable teams to build securely, consistently, and efficiently.
- •Improve platform reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency as data volumes and use cases grow.
- •Partner with Security, Compliance, Product, and Engineering teams to ensure our systems meet operational and regulatory requirements.
- •Identify systemic risks, reduce unnecessary complexity, and guide pragmatic, incremental improvements to the platform.
- •Strengthen engineering standards across data modelling, pipeline design, observability, testing, deployment automation, and infrastructure as code.
- •Influence technical priorities and planning by working closely with engineering managers, product managers, and senior technical leaders.
- •Mentor senior engineers and raise technical capability through design reviews, code reviews, documentation, and hands-on collaboration.
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.
We’re looking for someone who brings
- •Significant experience designing and evolving large-scale data platforms, distributed and stream processing systems.
- •Deep knowledge of real-time and event-driven architectures using technologies such as Kafka or Pub/Sub.
- •A track record of leading complex technical initiatives that span multiple teams or domains.
- •Experience building platform capabilities, shared services, and engineering patterns that other teams can adopt.
- •Strong judgement across reliability, scalability, performance, governance, security, and cost management.
- •The ability to move between high-level architectural decisions and hands-on implementation.
- •Experience influencing engineers and stakeholders around shared technical standards and long-term priorities.
- •A team-first approach, with a passion for mentoring experienced engineers and raising the technical bar.
- •Strong communication skills and the ability to make complex technical decisions clear to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- •Experience working in a regulated environment, or designing systems with strong compliance and auditability requirements.
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