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Staff Backend Engineer – FinOps, IAM, Blockchain
Location
New York
Posted
66 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Backend Engineer – FinOps, IAM, Blockchain
Moonshot
• 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.
Job 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.
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