Staff Backend Engineer – FinOps, IAM, Blockchain

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🕒 March 24

🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

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Moonshot

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2015

₿ Crypto

🏪 Marketplace

💰 $7.1M Series A - Moonshot on 2021-06

Crypto • Marketplace

Moonshot is a platform for buying and selling memecoins, providing a simple, user-friendly way for users to trade meme-themed cryptocurrencies.

📋 Description

• Own some of the most critical systems in our stack: identity and access, funds movement and ledgering, and the blockchain infrastructure that powers our on-chain trading. • Design, build, and operate Identity & Access Management services: • - Authentication flows, sessions, device trust. • - Authorization and entitlements (roles, permissions, policies). • - Security controls such as MFA and key management (working with security teams). • Own financial operations systems: • - Transfers and payments orchestration. • - Ledgering and reconciliation flows. • - Limits, risk controls, and transactional correctness. • Build and maintain blockchain infrastructure: • - Node and RPC management. • - Transaction submission, monitoring, and retry logic. • - Indexing and streaming of on-chain data into internal services and data stores. • Define and uphold reliability and observability standards: • - SLOs and error budgets for core services. • - Dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and incident management practices. • Lead large, cross-functional technical projects from design through rollout, collaborating with Product, Security, and Ops. • Mentor and guide other engineers, contributing to engineering standards, design reviews, and documentation. • Stay close to industry best practices in auth, key management, and secure infrastructure for crypto and trading.

🎯 Requirements

• 5–12+ years of backend or product or platform engineering, including experience with high-scale, high-availability systems in fintech, crypto, or similar domains. • Deep expertise in at least one of: • - Identity & access / security engineering • - Financial systems / ledgering / payments • - Blockchain infrastructure / on-chain data • Strong experience designing and operating distributed systems (datastores, queues, streaming, background workers). • Track record driving architecture decisions and seeing them through implementation and adoption. • Strong operational mindset: monitoring, on-call, incident response, and postmortems. • Excellent collaboration skills, especially with Product, Security, and Ops.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity. • 5% 401(k) match. • Health benefits with employer-covered premiums, plus life insurance coverage. • One-time office setup stipend. • Flexible PTO.