Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. MoonPay is building a unified identity and KYC platform that supports customers across its products. The Staff Software Engineer will shape the platform’s architecture and technical direction, build its core components and secure APIs and SDKs, and collaborate across product, engineering, compliance and security.
Responsibilities
- Turn a broad identity and KYC vision into a clear technical strategy, architecture and sequence of deliverable work
- Identify the boundaries between identity, authentication, verification, compliance and product-specific onboarding
- Set the technical bar through rigorous reviews, clear standards and lasting engineering habits
- Align teams across ramps, cards, virtual accounts and enterprise products around a shared identity model
- Design a unified identity layer that can support multiple MoonPay products, partners and regulated use cases
- Model the lifecycle of a customer’s identity, including creation, verification, linking, updates, consent and deletion
- Build secure APIs and SDKs that allow internal teams and external partners to use identity capabilities without understanding the underlying complexity
- Integrate KYC and identity-verification providers while keeping MoonPay’s internal model consistent and extensible
- Develop clear ownership boundaries between the identity platform and the products built on top of it
- Define how identity data is stored, accessed and shared across products, jurisdictions and legal entities
- Design for consent, auditability, data residency, retention and deletion from the beginning
- Build clear authorisation controls around who and what can access verified customer information
- Ensure the platform degrades safely when external verification providers or internal dependencies fail
- Partner closely with Security, Privacy, Legal and Compliance without allowing the platform to become difficult for developers to use
- Build public-facing APIs, SDKs and documentation that make complex identity workflows straightforward to integrate
- Establish stable contracts, versioning strategies and migration paths for teams and partners using the platform
- Provide observability into identity journeys, verification decisions and integration failures
- Reduce the need for product teams to rebuild identity and KYC logic independently
Skills
- You have built or owned production identity, KYC, authentication or customer-data infrastructure used across multiple products
- You have defined shared technical foundations rather than delivering only a single onboarding or login experience
- You have built interfaces used by external developers and understand stability, versioning, documentation and backwards compatibility
- You understand the security, privacy and operational requirements involved in storing and processing identity information
- You can reason across data models, verification providers, product workflows, compliance requirements and failure modes
- You have taken a problem nobody had fully scoped, created a technical direction and brought multiple teams with you
- You continue to design, build, review and operate production systems rather than leading only through documents and meetings
- Built identity or KYC infrastructure within payments, fintech, banking or another regulated environment
- Experience with reusable verified identity, identity vaults or portable customer profiles
- Experience with OAuth, OIDC, WebAuthn, passkeys, session management or account recovery
- Built systems supporting consent, data residency, privacy requests and audit trails
- Worked with multiple KYC, KYB or identity-verification providers
- Experience building developer platforms for external partners
- Familiarity with cryptocurrency, wallets or digital-asset products
- Familiarity with our stack: TypeScript, Node.js, GCP, PostgreSQL, Redis and Kubernetes
Benefits
- Equity package: all employees have ownership at MoonPay
- Pay-for-performance equity bonus
- Moonshot award: 20 employees a year, each earning a $250,000 equity grant
- Pension: employer contributions from day one
- Employee referral program: refer great people, earn 10K in USDC
- Flexible Time Off
- Recharge Period: end-of-year company-wide time off
- Birthday leave
- Enhanced parental leave
- Hybrid working schedule: work fully remotely or from your nearest Moonbase
- Commuter benefits: public transport to and from the office
- Private healthcare benefits
- Wellhub wellness membership: access to gyms, studios, classes, and wellness apps in one membership
- Enterprise access to the latest AI tools: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and whatever's next
- Lunch credit: meals covered on the days you're in the office
- Home office setup allowance
- Remote working allowance: for those working fully remotely
- Monthly product budget and zero-fee crypto transactions
- $1,000 Annual training budget
- High Potential Program: structured development, mentorship, and stretch opportunities
- Regular remote company offsites: high-impact in-person sessions and hackathons
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