Moonpay

Backend Engineer

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Job Description



🌍 Locations Supported

This role can be performed remotely from the United Kingdom, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Portugal, or Romania.

Unfortunately we do not offer business to business contracting arrangements.


🌔 About the Opportunity
Our engineering discipline builds the technology that enables MoonPay to learn quickly and scale easily. We organize in small cross-functional squads of 4–6 engineers and an embedded Product Manager and Product Data Analyst. We currently have squads across Crypto / NFT / Payments / KYC / Core Product and others. We're pragmatic and believe in having fluid structure — this means people can move between teams or specialise.

🚀 What you will do
  • Develop new and existing products and features.

  • Collaborate with other product teams to deliver and improve customer facing features.

  • Contribute to the estimations, planning and execution of projects, features, and integrations.

  • Integrate and work closely with external service providers to ensure smooth operation.

  • Maintain and improve our existing codebase.

  • Write fully tested, high quality and performant code.


  • 💻 What you will be working with/on
  • Typescript

  • React and NextJS

  • Node.js

  • TypeORM, TypeDI, TypeGraphQL and routing-controllers

  • Google Cloud Platform

  • Postgres

  • Redis

  • Bull

  • DataDog

  • GitHub

  • Jest


  • 🧑‍🚀 About You
  • Experienced in Software Engineering at leading startups or fast growing tech companies.

  • Confident in developing, releasing and maintaining server applications in a fast paced, iterative environment.

  • Experienced with some of our tech stack, or are confident you can cross train and up skill quickly.

  • Understand database structures, theories, principles, and best practices.

  • Experienced with Cloud Native applications such as Google Cloud or similar (e.g. AWS, Azure) — beneficial but not essential.

  • Bonus points if you make open-source contributions, have experience in Web3, or proven experience in the fintech or payments industry.