Staff Backend & Platform Engineer – FinOps, IAM & Blockchain

The role

You will own identity and access, funds movement and ledgering, and blockchain infrastructure. You will design, build, and operate highly reliable and secure systems to enable product teams.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate Identity & Access Management services
• Own financial operations systems including transfers, payments, ledgering, and risk controls
• Build and maintain blockchain infrastructure including node and RPC management
• Index and stream on-chain data into internal services and data stores
• Define and uphold reliability and observability standards
• Lead large, cross-functional technical projects from design through rollout
• Mentor and guide other engineers
• Stay close to industry best practices in auth, key management, and secure infrastructure

Required qualifications

• 5–12+ years of backend or product or platform engineering
• 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, or Blockchain infrastructure / on-chain data
• Strong experience designing and operating distributed systems
• 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

Nice to have

• Experience with Flutter, React Native, React, Headless CRMs
• Experience with Go, Rust, Solana
• Experience with Google Cloud or Amazon Web Services
• Experience with crypto wallets, exchanges, or onchain protocols including DeFi, L2s, ZK
• Exposure to data warehousing and analytics for financial reporting
• Contributions to open-source projects

Benefits

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

About the company

Moonshot is the “Robinhood for DeFi”—an iOS and Android app that lets anyone trade cryptocurrencies on-chain through a user-friendly interface. Their mission is to make moonshots possible for everyone.