About MoonPay 🌖💸
Hi, we’re MoonPay. We’re here to onboard the world to Web3.
Why? Because we think Web3 is a unique and democratising technology. It gives people back control of their money, digital identity, data, and property like nothing else before it.
What we do
We’re the leading infrastructure company in Web3. This means we offer our partners everything from payment solutions (we call them 'Ramps') to minting software for digital collectibles, like NFTs. And over 30 million people around the world now trust our products — just take a look on Trustpilot.
We’re also big on collaborations. And we've worked on stunts, drops, and partnerships with some of the world's most prestigious and forward-thinking brands.
But that’s not all. We have also built our own consumer app because we wanted to see if we could build a better Web3 account. It’s taken off in a big way, and we're working hard to continually improve it and to strive for perfection.
So whatever your background, we’re sure there’s something for you here. Come help us build the future of Web3 and digital ownership.
🌔 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 Staff Data Engineer on our Data Platform team, you'll be at the forefront of shaping our data platform. You'll be a key technical leader and contributor, shaping the future of how data is used. Your work will involve building and enhancing the core infrastructure and services that empower other developers and our data users.
Day-to-day, you will:
* Architect, design, and develop our data platform capabilities. This means getting hands-on to build the robust foundations our data and AI capabilities rely on. Including real-time streaming, orchestration, data warehousing and governance. We value deep expertise in at least two of these core areas.
* Actively contribute to our technical vision and roadmap, including the estimation, planning, and execution of complex data platform projects, including new service integrations and major infrastructure upgrades
* Contribute and improve our existing data platform codebase, data pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), focusing on scalability, reliability, performance, and cost-effectiveness
* Collaborate across engineering and analytics teams to deliver reliable platform capabilities that directly empower them, and to ensure these services are well-adopted and impactful
* Work closely with engineers, analysts, and data scientists to understand their needs, define clear requirements, and develop effective implementation plans for platform enhancements
* Write well-tested, high-quality, and performant code for data processing, platform automation, and infrastructure management
As a Staff Data Engineer, you will also:
* Lead technical initiatives for the data platform from an engineering perspective, partnering effectively with stakeholders to drive these from concept through to successful delivery and adoption
* Mentor and coach engineers and other technical team members, helping to elevate their skills and fostering best practices in data engineering and system design
* Champion high standards for code quality, testing, and documentation within the data platform, and proactively identify and strategize on managing technical debt.
* Define and contribute to our overall data engineering standards, patterns, and best practices, including areas like data modeling, pipeline design, IaC, monitoring, and alerting for our data systems
💻 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 we deploy, monitor, and manage our data infrastructure.
* Data Governance & Quality Systems: Developing tools and processes to ensure our data is compliant, reliable, secure, and well-documented.
* Data Warehousing: Designing, building, and optimizing how we store and model data for analytics and reporting.
* ML Platform Enablement: Building and supporting the underlying infrastructure and data pipelines that our Machine Learning teams need.
🧑🚀 About You
You are a seasoned engineer with a passion for building robust, scalable, and high-impact data solutions. You thrive in a collaborative environment and are driven to elevate the entire team's capabilities. Your technical expertise is matched by your ability to influence, mentor and lead.
We’re looking for someone who brings:
* A history of building beloved data platforms. You have designed and delivered shared services that your internal users (engineers, analysts, scientists) view as products that accelerate their work and reduce their cognitive load
* Proven technical leadership driving data platform architecture, and influencing technical roadmaps
* Deep, hands-on experience with real-time/event-driven systems (e.g., Kafka, Pub/Sub), data warehousing/modeling, and orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow) to create reusable patterns for data consumers
* Mastery of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (e.g., Terraform) for managing complex, production-grade data infrastructure
* A team first attitude, you enjoy mentoring others and sharing knowledge because you believe that rising tides lift all boats
* A track record of building platform capabilities that enable at least one of: self-service, real-time analytics, robust data governance
* A continuous drive to stay at the forefront of data engineering technologies and platform best practices, championing their adoption to drive innovation.
Most importantly, though, you will embody the core principles that everyone here at the MoonPay lives by. Our “BLOCK Values” are at the heart of everything we do - and they are…
B - Be Hungry
L - Level Up
O - Own It
C - Crypto Curious
K - Kaizen
MoonPay Perks
Equity package 📈
Unlimited holidays 🏝
Paid parental leave 🍼
Annual training budget 💻
Home office setup allowance 🪑
Monthly budget to spend on our products 💰
Working in a disruptive and fast-growing industry where the possibilities are endless 🚀
Freedom, autonomy and responsibility 💪
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 learnt, diversity cannot.
Please let us know if you require any accommodations for the interview process, and we’ll do our best to provide assistance.
Commitment To Diversity
At MoonPay we believe that every voice matters. We strive to create a mindful and respectful environment where everyone can bring their authentic self to work, and experience a culture that is free of harassment, racism, and discrimination. That’s why we are committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and are a proud equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including, but not limited to, hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, and leave of absence.
MoonPay is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our job application procedures for qualified individuals with disabilities. Please inform our Talent Team if you need any assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process.
Please be aware that MoonPay does not request an AI-led interview without seeing a recruiter or team member from MoonPay on video call. We won't ask for your personal identification documents or any money from you during your interview process with us. Be fraud smart! If you receive an email - claiming to be from MoonPay - but from an email address ending in anything other than @moonpay.com, please be aware that this is not us.
