Staff Engineer, Full Stack (Trust, Safety & Risk)

The role

You will build systems to safeguard users, products, and the platform by detecting and preventing abuse and assessing emerging risks. This role involves working across the stack to develop risk controls, identity infrastructure, and data pipelines.

What you will do

• Build real-time risk controls and decisioning systems for money movement experiences.
• Develop signals, models, and product interventions to identify malicious wallets, transactions, applications, and user behavior.
• Build scalable KYC, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, case management, and audit systems.
• Create pipelines and tools that combine on-chain activity, product data, and third-party signals into actionable risk insights.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to design safeguards into new features.
• Build internal tools to help Risk, Compliance, Support, and Security teams investigate incidents.
• Help establish the technical foundations and engineering culture for a new function.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of full-time software engineering experience
• Experience designing and operating reliable, data-intensive production systems
• Strong product judgment and the ability to balance user experience, financial risk, and operational complexity
• Ability to work across frontend, backend, APIs, data pipelines, and third-party integrations
• Demonstrated interest in protecting users and building trustworthy financial products
• English language proficiency

Nice to have

• Experience with fraud, risk, identity, KYC, AML, sanctions, payments, fintech, or blockchain systems

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Comprehensive insurance (medical/dental/vision): base plan 100% covered
• Flexible hours and a long-standing, supportive remote environment
• Unlimited vacation
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Wellness stipend
• Weekly meal stipend
• Learning & Development stipend
• Remote / WFH set-up stipend

About the company

Phantom is on a mission to connect the world to the freedom of open markets. The company is around 180 people and fully remote.