Full-Time

Senior Blockchain Platform Engineer

Updated on 8/18/2026

MoonPay

MoonPay

201-500 employees

Crypto payment platform for digital assets

Compensation Overview

$190k - $255k/yr

+ Equity package + Equity bonus + $250,000 equity grant + Pension contributions + $10,000 USDC referral reward + Commuter benefits + Home office setup allowance + Remote working allowance

New York, NY, USA

Hybrid

Hybrid working is offered, with the option to work fully remotely or from the nearest Moonbase.

Category
DevOps & Infrastructure (1)
Required Skills
Ethereum
Incident Response
Smart Contracts
Blockchain
Solana
Observability

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Requirements
  • Strong backend and platform engineering fundamentals.
  • Experience operating production systems with real uptime requirements.
  • Hands-on experience interacting with live blockchain networks in production.
  • A clear understanding of the transaction lifecycle in at least one blockchain and failure recovery.
  • Ability to reason about failure modes rather than only happy paths.
Responsibilities
  • Design and improve high-volume transaction broadcasting pipelines.
  • Manage transaction lifecycles, including detecting, retrying, rebroadcasting, and safely recovering stuck transactions.
  • Contribute to wallet infrastructure and automation systems.
  • Implement safe parallel transaction handling.
  • Improve monitoring, observability, and operational guardrails.
  • Design systems with financial correctness, reconciliation, and auditability in mind.
  • Build infrastructure supporting cross-chain and multi-step flows between fiat and on-chain systems.
  • Handle non-atomic multi-step journeys across chains.
  • Design state machines and recovery strategies for partial-failure scenarios.
  • Support routing mechanics and swap execution, including price impact, liquidity changes, and MEV awareness.
  • Build reliable off-chain services that interact with on-chain contracts.
  • Participate in estimation, planning, and execution of projects, features, and integrations.
  • Develop and maintain thoroughly tested, high-quality, performant code.
  • Collaborate with Product Managers to design scalable implementation strategies.
  • Contribute to reliable, maintainable systems that evolve with product needs.
  • Participate in incident response and post-mortems.
  • Improve reliability, alerting, and system resilience.
  • Continuously evolve infrastructure to support growing volume and complexity.
Desired Qualifications
  • Ability to explain a real production incident end-to-end.
  • Experience with at least one wallet infrastructure or custody system, including Ethereum, Bitcoin, or Solana.
  • Awareness of MEV, slippage, pricing impact, and swap execution risks.
  • Experience with high-throughput or financial systems.
  • Experience at exchanges, custody providers, wallet infrastructure teams, or high-volume DeFi platforms.
  • Familiarity with UTXO-based chains such as Bitcoin, including coin selection and fee-bumping strategies such as RBF and CPFP.
  • Experience designing cross-chain or multi-step transaction orchestration systems.
  • Familiarity with blockchain indexing or event-ingestion pipelines.
  • Understanding of common token standards such as ERC-20 and SPL, and of interacting with smart contracts from backend services.

MoonPay provides cryptocurrency payment solutions that let individuals, businesses, and developers buy and sell digital assets through a global platform. Its product processes crypto purchases and sales, charging transaction fees and offering built-in fraud prevention and compliance tools to secure transactions. The service is designed to be accessed worldwide, with a focus on integrating payments into other applications and platforms. MoonPay sets itself apart with its broad global reach, developer-focused offerings, and emphasis on security and regulatory support, as well as its fully remote, paperless operations and commitment to carbon neutrality by 2030. The company’s goal is to make crypto payments easy and secure for users around the world while reducing its environmental impact over time.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Debt Financing

Total Funding

$1B

Headquarters

Miami, Florida

Founded

2018

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Franklin Templeton partnered with MoonPay on June 2, 2026 for tokenized fund flows.
  • Gateway added Hyperliquid on May 22, 2026, giving partners instant fiat-to-token access.
  • PayBox launched July 29, 2026 with Solana, EVM chains, and merchant integrations.

What critics are saying

  • Illinois BIPA and BAYC NFT class actions still hang over MoonPay's brand and balance sheet.
  • A PayBox exploit after July 2026 wipes trust and shuts MoonPay's AI payments push.
  • Crypto payments remain commoditized; Coinbase, Visa, and Robinhood can crush distribution quickly.

What makes MoonPay unique

  • MoonPay combines consumer ramps, institutional trade, and AI wallets across 200-plus blockchains.
  • PayBox embeds ChatGPT and Claude payments through x402 and non-custodial controls.
  • MoonPay holds New York BitLicense, MiCA authorization, and broad U.S. money-transmitter coverage.

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Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

↓ -4%

1 year growth

↓ -1%

2 year growth

↓ -3%
Associated Press
Aug 5th, 2026
MoonPay enables gasless transactions on TRON network processing $22B daily stablecoin volume

MoonPay has integrated the TRON network with its Trade infrastructure, enabling users to complete transactions without holding TRX to pay network fees. The integration brings gasless transactions to TRON, which supports over $22 billion in average daily transfer volume. Traditionally, users needed to maintain a balance of TRX, TRON's native utility token, to cover network fees when sending or swapping stablecoins. MoonPay's infrastructure abstracts these gas fees and incorporates them into the overall transaction, allowing users to transact with only the assets they hold. Trust Wallet is the first launch partner supporting the integration. The TRON blockchain has recorded over 396 million total user accounts and more than 15 billion total transactions as of August 2026.

Fortune
Jul 23rd, 2026
MoonPay launches Paybox AI wallet for ChatGPT and Claude to complete purchases

MoonPay has launched Paybox, a wallet tool that enables non-technical consumers to make purchases through Claude and ChatGPT. The tool allows AI agents to complete transactions including flight bookings, restaurant reservations, and Amazon shopping. Users can add Paybox through Claude's Connectors menu without coding or special software. Once connected, they can fund the wallet via bank account or cryptocurrency and instruct their AI agent to make purchases in plain English. Paybox differs from similar offerings by Robinhood and Coinbase through its decentralised design using the x402 protocol, meaning it operates independently and doesn't favour specific merchants. Users can set spending limits or require purchase notifications. However, MoonPay faces adoption challenges as it's primarily known as a backend payment service, whilst competitors like Robinhood and Visa can leverage existing customer bases. Questions remain about handling mistaken or fraudulent purchases.

Crypto Briefing
Jul 16th, 2026
MoonPay acquires Y Combinator-backed Glide in all-equity deal to expand crypto deposits infrastructure

MoonPay has acquired Glide, a Y Combinator-backed crypto deposits startup, in an all-equity deal. The acquisition strengthens MoonPay's infrastructure for moving fiat currency into crypto wallets through enhanced bank and fiat integrations. The deal continues MoonPay's strategy of using equity rather than cash for acquisitions. The company previously bought Israeli cryptography firm Sodot for $100 million in equity and Solana payments company Helio for $175 million, also in equity. Founded in 2019, MoonPay has been executing a multi-deal acquisition strategy targeting security, stablecoin infrastructure, and payments. The moves position the crypto payments company to compete with Circle and Visa whilst capitalising on growing institutional adoption of stablecoins for cross-border payments and treasury management.

MoonPay
Jun 23rd, 2026
MoonPay Acquires Entendre

Acquisition adds agentic reconciliation, bookkeeping, treasury, reporting, and close automation to MoonPay's infrastructure for businesses operating with digital assets

Axios
Jun 22nd, 2026
MoonPay acquires AI accounting startup Entendre to reconcile stablecoin transactions

MoonPay has acquired Entendre, an AI accounting startup for companies using stablecoins and digital assets, CEO Ivan Soto-Wright told Axios. The transaction involved cash and stock, though terms were not disclosed. Entendre uses AI agents to reconcile digital asset transactions against accounting systems and general ledgers. The startup's customers include Polygon Labs, Thirdweb and Babylon Labs, processing 25,000 transactions monthly across more than 30 financial accounts. Entendre's team of fewer than 10 employees will join MoonPay, with founder Kareem Khattab becoming VP of applied AI. The company had previously raised $4 million in seed funding led by Basis Set Ventures. Soto-Wright said MoonPay plans additional acquisitions and expects to announce new regulatory licences before year-end. The company now employs about a dozen former CEOs and CTOs.