Staff Data Engineer at Moonpay

Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

Moonpay Logo
Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years), Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Web3, Cryptocurrency, FintechIndustries

Requirements

  • Passionate engineer who thrives on solving complex challenges, from high-level architectural design down to implementation
  • Deep expertise in at least two core areas: real-time streaming, orchestration, data warehousing, and governance
  • Hands-on technical leadership experience
  • Ability to mentor and coach engineers and technical team members
  • Experience writing well-tested, high-quality, and performant code for data processing, platform automation, and infrastructure management

Responsibilities

  • Architect, design, and develop data platform capabilities, including real-time streaming, orchestration, data warehousing, and governance
  • Actively contribute to the technical vision and roadmap, including estimation, planning, and execution of complex data platform projects, new service integrations, and major infrastructure upgrades
  • Contribute and improve 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, ensure well-adoption and impact
  • Work closely with engineers, analysts, and data scientists to understand needs, define clear requirements, and develop effective implementation plans for platform enhancements
  • Lead technical initiatives for the data platform from an engineering perspective, partnering with stakeholders to drive from concept to delivery and adoption
  • Mentor and coach engineers and other technical team members, elevating skills and fostering best practices in data engineering and system design
  • Champion high standards for code quality, testing, and documentation, and proactively manage technical debt
  • Define and contribute to overall data engineering standards, patterns, and best practices, including data modeling, pipeline design, IaC, monitoring, and alerting

Skills

Data Engineering
Data Platforms
System Architecture
Infrastructure Building
Technical Leadership
Mentoring

Moonpay

Cryptocurrency payment solutions and services

About Moonpay

MoonPay provides cryptocurrency payment solutions that allow users to easily buy and sell digital assets. The platform operates globally and caters to individual investors, businesses, and developers. Users can make transactions through MoonPay, which charges fees for each purchase or sale. To enhance security, MoonPay also includes services like fraud prevention and compliance support. A key aspect that sets MoonPay apart from its competitors is its commitment to sustainability; it operates as a fully remote and paperless organization and aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030 by offsetting emissions and investing in eco-friendly initiatives.

Miami, FloridaHeadquarters
2018Year Founded
$631.5MTotal Funding
EARLY_VCCompany Stage
Fintech, CybersecurityIndustries
201-500Employees

Benefits

Stock options 📈
Unlimited holidays 🏝
Home office equipment allowance of $600 USD (or local equivalent) 🪑
Working in a disruptive and fast-growing industry where the possibilities are endless 🚀
Fully remote: your life, your way of working 🌎
Freedom, autonomy and responsibility 💪

Risks

Increased competition from DeFi platforms could erode MoonPay's market share.
Cryptocurrency price volatility may lead to unpredictable transaction volumes and revenue.
Emergence of new stablecoins like RLUSD could challenge MoonPay's market position.

Differentiation

MoonPay offers a seamless fiat-to-crypto conversion experience with major payment methods.
The company provides additional services like fraud prevention and compliance support.
MoonPay operates as a fully remote and paperless organization, aiming for carbon neutrality by 2030.

Upsides

MoonPay's acquisition of Helio expands its crypto payment capabilities and market reach.
MiCA approval allows MoonPay to expand its offerings across the European Economic Area.
Partnership with Element Wallet enhances access to self-custodial Bitcoin staking solutions.

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