About MoonPay MoonPay is for builders with something to prove. This isn't a "work on cool crypto stuff" company. It's a high-standards, high-velocity, high-accountability company building the operating system for value movement. If the internet moves information, we move value: crypto, stablecoins, tokenized assets, and whatever comes next. Four offerings make that real: fund, tokenize, trade, and spend. 30M+ customers and 500+ ecosystem partners run on us. Licensed in the U.S. Regulated across the UK, EU, Canada, and Australia. AI is the default operating mode here. It's woven into every role, and we expect you to use it daily. It handles the manual work so you can deliver on what actually matters. You'll thrive here if outcomes excite you more than process, if impact motivates you more than titles, and if you want hard problems, real ownership, and teammates who love winning, building, and doing it together. The bar is high. The pace is real. We're building for what's next, for humans and agents.
Recent recognition:
Forbes' America's Best Startup Employers 2026 . 2nd in Crypto Services on Fortune's inaugural Crypto 100, The Sunday Times Best Places to Work two years running.
Research has shown that women are less likely than men to apply for this role if they do not have experience in 100% of these areas. Please know that this list is indicative, and that we would still love to hear from you even if you feel that you are only a 75% match. Skills can be learned, diversity cannot.
Day-to-day, you will:
Set and evolve the technical direction of our data platform across streaming, batch processing, warehousing, orchestration, governance, and machine learning enablement. Lead the design and delivery of complex, cross-team initiatives from early architectural decisions through to implementation Design and build core platform capabilities, from reliable real-time pipelines, shared tooling, reusable frameworks, and scalable data infrastructure for other teams Establish and champion golden paths that enable teams to build securely, consistently, and efficiently. Improve platform reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency as data volumes and use cases grow. Partner with Security, Compliance, Product, and Engineering teams to ensure our systems meet operational and regulatory requirements. Identify systemic risks, reduce unnecessary complexity, and guide pragmatic, incremental improvements to the platform. Strengthen engineering standards across data modelling, pipeline design, observability, testing, deployment automation, and infrastructure as code. Influence technical priorities and planning by working closely with engineering managers, product managers, and senior technical leaders. Mentor senior engineers and raise technical capability through design reviews, code reviews, documentation, and hands-on collaboration. 💻 What you will be working with/on GCP Pub/Sub and Kafka Apache Beam Bigtable Redis Kubernetes Airflow BigQuery Terraform Python and SQL Real-time and batch processing Data governance, quality, and observability 3. About You You’re a systems thinker who has helped design and scale data platforms used by multiple teams. You’re comfortable operating across architecture, hands-on delivery, and organisation-wide technical influence. You value pragmatic solutions, strong engineering foundations, and quality outcomes over complexity for its own sake.
We’re looking for someone who brings:
Significant experience designing and evolving large-scale data platforms, distributed and stream processing systems Deep knowledge of real-time and event-driven architectures using technologies such as Kafka or Pub/Sub. A track record of leading complex technical initiatives that span multiple teams or domains. Experience building platform capabilities, shared services, and engineering patterns that other teams can adopt Strong judgement across reliability, scalability, performance, governance, security, and cost management. The ability to move between high-level architectural decisions and hands-on implementation. Experience influencing engineers and stakeholders around shared technical standards and long-term priorities A team-first approach, with a passion for mentoring experienced engineers and raising the technical bar Strong communication skills and the ability to make complex technical decisions clear to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Experience working in a regulated environment, or designing systems with strong compliance and auditability requirements Experience with our specific technology stack is helpful, but architectural judgement, systems thinking, and technical leadership matter more than expertise in any one tool.
Salary Bandings: $260,000 - $274,000
MoonPay is a unified payments platform for digital currency that enables users to buy, sell, swap, and pay in digital currencies with the simplicity of sending an email. The company serves as an end-to-end solution powering the flow between fiat and crypto, with built-in compliance, identity checks, fraud prevention, and settlement. MoonPay is trusted by over 30 million customers and 500+ ecosystem partners globally, driving mainstream crypto adoption through secure, enterprise-grade infrastructure. Fully licensed in the U.S. and regulated across the UK, EU, Canada, and Australia, MoonPay has recently launched a consumer app designed to make crypto accessible and intuitive for everyone. The company's mission is to onboard the world to the decentralized economy and provide tools for global financial empowerment.
