Senior Staff Software Engineer
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You will design, build, and operate Rust backend services for high-volume financial transactions. You will own features through production monitoring, integrate with financial and compliance partners, improve engineering quality, collaborate across functions, and set technical direction and mentor engineers at staff level.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate Rust backend services for high-volume financial transactions
- Own features from product specification through production monitoring
- Integrate with banks, payment processors, blockchains, and identity and compliance vendors
- Improve observability, incident response, security practices, and API design
- Collaborate with product, compliance, and engineering teams
- Set technical direction, mentor engineers, and drive cross-team architectural decisions at staff level
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience, or 8+ years for Staff
- Experience shipping and operating production systems at scale
- Backend experience with a statically compiled language
- Knowledge of distributed systems, API design, data modeling, and asynchronous processing
- Experience with correctness-critical software domains
- Critical thinking when using AI tools
- Interest in crypto, stablecoins, and payments
- Hands-on blockchain development experience for Track 3
Benefits
- Equity package
- Pay-for-performance equity bonus
- Moonshot equity award
- Pension contributions from day one
- Employee referral program
- Flexible Time Off
- End-of-year recharge period
- Birthday leave
- Enhanced parental leave
- Fully remote or Moonbase working option
- Commuter benefits
- Private healthcare benefits
- Wellhub wellness membership
- Access to AI tools
- Lunch credit for office days
- Home office setup allowance
- Remote working allowance
- Monthly product budget
- Zero-fee crypto transactions
- Annual training budget
- Regular remote company offsites
- Ireland Cycle to Work scheme
- UK EV Salary Sacrifice scheme