# Senior Backend Engineer - Company: [Moonshot]() - Location: New York, NY · USA - Remote: Yes - Team: Engineering - Employment type: Full Time - Posted: July 1, 2026 ## Job description **Moonshot** is the “Robinhood for DeFi”—an iOS and Android app that lets anyone trade cryptocurrencies on-chain through a user-friendly interface. Since our launch in July 2024, we’ve attracted 2M+ users. **Our mission:** Make moonshots possible for everyone. **Our vision:** Make a world where life-changing financial outcomes are within everyone's reach. Everyone on our team is both a decision-maker and an implementer—united by a sense of urgency and driven by the conviction that our work can transform global finance. If you thrive on curiosity, welcome tough challenges, and aspire to leave a meaningful mark on the world, Moonshot is the place for you. You’ll run toward the hardest problems alongside high-caliber teammates who consistently push each other to excel and who share your dedication to shaping the future of decentralized finance. This role is full-time, preferably located in NYC. Open to remote for the right candidate. ### The Opportunity As a Backend Engineer at Moonshot, you’ll 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. This role is similar to staff engineers at leading crypto wallets and exchanges who own authentication stacks, key management, and high-scale financial backends. You’ll design, build, and operate systems that must be both highly reliable and extremely secure, enabling product teams to move quickly on a solid foundation. ### What You’ll Do * 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. ### What We Look For in You * 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. ### Nice to Haves * Experience with Flutter, React Native, React, Headless CRMs * Experience with Go, Rust, Solana * Experience with Google Cloud or Amazon Web Services * Experience with **crypto wallets, exchanges, or onchain protocols including DeFi, L2s, ZK** * Exposure to **data warehousing and analytics** for financial reporting. * Contributions to **open-source projects**. ### Location * NYC preferred (with periodic in-person sprints). * Remote-friendly within the United States and Canada; travel ~1wk/quarter ### Compensation & Package * 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. ## Apply [Apply on Moonshot]() Canonical job page: