Staff Data Engineer
MoonPay is a financial technology company that builds payments infrastructure for crypto.
Maintainer signals as of 8/14/2026
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About MoonPay
Moonpay is a financial technology company that enables web and mobile developers to let their users buy and sell cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies using conventional payment methods. The company focuses on creating a safe, simple, and transparent bridge between fiat currencies and cryptocurrencies.
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About the Role
You will lead the design and evolution of a data platform supporting analytics, product insights, integrations, and machine learning. You will set technical direction, design and implement reliable data infrastructure, lead cross-team initiatives, improve reliability and efficiency, establish engineering standards, partner on regulatory requirements, influence priorities, and mentor senior engineers.
Requirements
- Significant experience designing and evolving large-scale data platforms
- Experience with distributed and stream processing systems
- Deep knowledge of real-time and event-driven architectures
- Experience leading complex technical initiatives across multiple teams or domains
- Experience building platform capabilities, shared services, and reusable engineering patterns
- Strong judgement across reliability, scalability, performance, governance, security, and cost management
- Ability to make high-level architectural decisions and contribute to hands-on implementation
- Experience influencing engineers and stakeholders on shared technical standards and long-term priorities
- Experience mentoring experienced engineers
- Strong communication skills
- Experience working in a regulated environment or designing systems with compliance and auditability requirements
Responsibilities
- Set and evolve the technical direction of the data platform
- Lead complex cross-team initiatives from architectural decisions through implementation
- Design and build real-time pipelines, shared tooling, reusable frameworks, and scalable data infrastructure
- Establish secure, consistent, and efficient engineering paths
- Improve platform reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency
- Partner with Security, Compliance, Product, and Engineering teams on operational and regulatory requirements
- Identify systemic risks and reduce unnecessary complexity
- Strengthen standards for data modelling, pipeline design, observability, testing, deployment automation, and infrastructure as code
- Influence technical priorities and planning
- Mentor senior engineers through design reviews, code reviews, documentation, and collaboration
Benefits
- Equity package
- Pay-for-performance equity bonus
- Moonshot award with a $250,000 equity grant
- Employer pension contributions from day one
- Employee referral program earning 10K in USDC
- Flexible time off
- Birthday leave
- Enhanced parental leave
- Hybrid working schedule with fully remote option
- Commuter benefits
- Private healthcare benefits
- Wellhub wellness membership
- Unlimited enterprise access to AI tools
- Lunch credit
- Home office setup allowance
- Remote working allowance
- Monthly product budget
- Zero-fee crypto transactions
- $1,000 annual training budget
- High Potential Program with structured development and mentorship
- Regular remote company offsites
- Ireland Cycle to Work scheme
- UK EV Salary Sacrifice
