Moonpay

Senior Full Stack Engineer - Platform

Job Description

Location supported 🌍
South Africa, Cape Town
This role will be hybrid, and will require you to spend some portion of your time in our office in this location.

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
  • Architect and develop new and existing products and features.
  • Work with Product Managers to come up with the best solutions and implementation plans for new features or changes to existing ones.
  • 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.

    • About You
  • Extensive backend engineering experience at leading startups or fast growing tech companies.
  • Confident in developing, releasing and maintaining server applications in a fast paced, iterative environment. 
  • Experience with some of our tech stack, or confident you can cross train and up skill quickly. 
  • Have a deep understanding of database structures, theories, principles, and best practices.
  • Hold Cloud native experience with Google Cloud or similar e.g AWS, Azure.
  • Bonus points if you make open-source contributions or have experience in web3.

    • As a Senior you will be expected to: 
  • Mentor and coach Engineers.
  • Champion the writing of high quality code.
  • Contribute to our overall approach and standards within the Engineering discipline. Including design, documentation, monitoring and alerting.
  • Lead initiatives from an engineering perspective, partnering closely with product managers.

    • What you be working with
  • Typescript as our programming language of choice 
  • Node.js as our backend platform
  • TypeORM, TypeDI, TypeGraphQL and routing-controllers as our backend libraries
  • React and NextJS hosted on Vercel as our frontend
  • Google Cloud Platform to host our services
  • Postgres as our core database
  • Redis for caching
  • Bull to manage background tasks
  • DataDog for logging and monitoring
  • GitHub to manage our source code
  • Jest to run our tests ✅

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