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Hi, we're MoonPay. We're here to onboard the world to the decentralized economy.
Why?
Because crypto and blockchain aren't just technologies--they're tools for global financial empowerment. They give people control over their money, their digital assets, and their future, unlocking opportunities that traditional systems have kept out of reach.
What We Do
At MoonPay, we're building the infrastructure that powers this new financial system. We make it easy for anyone, anywhere, to buy, sell, and trade crypto using everyday payment methods like cards, Apple Pay, PayPal, Revolut and Venmo. We provide simple tools to send, receive, and manage stablecoins, so anyone can participate in the crypto economy confidently.
Trusted by nearly 30 million customers and over 500 companies, our secure, enterprise-grade platform is driving mainstream crypto adoption worldwide.
We collaborate with innovative brands and projects to build secure, scalable solutions for a blockchain-powered future. And we're committed to doing it right--fully licensed in the U.S. and regulated across the UK, EU, Canada, and Australia--because trust and compliance are non-negotiable.
But we're just getting started. We've launched a consumer app that makes crypto accessible, intuitive, and usable for everyone, and it's growing fast. We're iterating every day to make it the best it can be.
If you believe financial freedom should be for everyone--if you believe in building a fairer, more open financial system--we want you with us. To build systems that benefit all, we need contributions from all, regardless of background.
Come build the future of payments and the decentralized economy with MoonPay. Let's make financial freedom and autonomy the new normal.
About the Opportunity
This is a hands-on technical leadership role with the opportunity to shape the future of our data platform. You will be responsible for designing and building the core systems to unlock value from our data as we grow. We are looking for a passionate engineer who thrives on solving complex challenges, from high-level architectural design down to implementation. Your impact will come from tackling technical problems directly while also mentoring the team and influencing the long-term vision.
What you will do
As a Senior Data Engineer on our Data Platform team, you'll be a critical player in the evolution of our data platform. You will be a hands-on technical expert, responsible for designing, building, and optimizing the core infrastructure and services that empower our developers and data users.
Day-to-day, you will:
Design and develop key components of our data platform. This means getting hands-on to build and scale the robust foundations our data and AI capabilities rely on, including real-time streaming, orchestration, data warehousing, batch ingestion and governance. We value strong experience in at least one of these core areas
Take ownership of the estimation, planning, and execution of complex data platform projects, including new feature development and major service upgrades
Improve and scale our existing data platform codebase, data pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), with a focus on enhancing scalability, reliability, performance, and cost-effectiveness
Collaborate closely with engineering, analytics, and data science teams to understand their needs, gather requirements, and deliver reliable and well-adopted platform capabilities
Write well-tested, high-quality, and performant code for data processing, platform automation, and infrastructure management
Lead the design and delivery of complex data engineering projects, partnering effectively with stakeholders to drive these from concept through to successful implementation
Mentor other engineers on the team, helping to elevate their skills and fostering best practices in data engineering through code reviews and technical guidance
Uphold and contribute to high standards for code quality, testing, and documentation, and proactively identify and help manage technical debt
What you'll be working on
Within our Data Platform team you will partner and collaborate across our Platform, Security and Data teams to shape and develop Moonpay's data capabilities.
Key Technologies you'll use daily:
Primarily Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - think Kubernetes, Kafka, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Airflow, Cloud Storage, Datadog. (Experience with AWS/Azure is also great)
Languages: we primarily use Python, Terraform, Bash, SQL
Types of projects and systems you'll focus on:
Real-Time Event Streaming: Enhancing and managing our infrastructure for handling high-volume, low-latency event streams
Shared Data Tooling & Frameworks: Creating reusable libraries, APIs, and services that make it easier and faster for other teams to build data-driven applications
Core Data Pipelines: Building and scaling the systems that ingest, process, and make data available from various sources
Platform Automation & Observability: Improving how w
About the Company
We are MoonPay. Architects of the future, inventors, artists, and authors of innovation.
Our vision? To unlock digital ownership for everyone. We are onboarding the world to Web3, where people can own and control their digital identity, data, property, and money.
MoonPay is the world’s leading Web3 infrastructure company. We provide end-to-end solutions for payments, enterprise-scale smart contract development, and digital asset management. Many of the world's most iconic brands rely on MoonPay to power their Web3 strategi...
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