Senior Blockchain Engineer

MoonPay

$150K — $210K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 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
  • Ability to think in failure modes, not just happy paths

Responsibilities

  • Design and improve high-volume transaction broadcasting pipelines
  • Manage transaction lifecycle
  • Detect, retry, rebroadcast, and safely recover stuck transactions
  • Contribute to wallet infrastructure and automation systems
  • Implement safe parallel transaction handling
  • Build infrastructure supporting cross chain and multi-step flows
  • Participate in estimation, planning, and execution of projects, features, and integrations

Benefits

  • Competitive salary package
  • Equity package with ownership opportunities
  • Performance-based equity bonuses
  • Pension contributions from day one
  • Flexible Time Off for work-life balance
  • Enhanced parental leave for family time
  • Hybrid working options for remote or onsite work
  • Private healthcare benefits for employees and families
  • Annual training budget for professional development
  • Regular offsite events for team building and collaboration
Full Job Description
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 Bands: $150,000 - $210,000

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

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