MoonPay
Staff Engineer, Agents
Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.
United States only
Employer listed it 3 weeks ago · Added yesterday
Been open since 3 weeks ago, still being checked, but it has been live a while.
Salary
Not stated
Location
United States only
Timezone
US East
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Lead
Category
Software
This employer didn't state pay. Jobs like this usually pay around $200k–$275k a year, a typical range taken from 597 lead-level software roles on Nomaders that do state pay. It's a guide, not an offer.
Remote flexibility
Work from home
This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in United States. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "United States - Remote, remote"
What Nomaders makes of it
- Residency required in United States
- Payroll and tax are likely handled in that country only
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About the role
About MoonPay
MoonPay is for builders with something to prove.
This isn't a "work on cool crypto stuff" company. It's a high-standards, high-velocity, high-accountability company building the operating system for value movement. If the internet moves information, we move value: crypto, stablecoins, tokenized assets, and whatever comes next. Four offerings make that real: fund, tokenize, trade, and spend. 30M+ customers and 500+ ecosystem partners run on us. Licensed in the U.S. Regulated across the UK, EU, Canada, and Australia.
AI is the default operating mode here. It's woven into every role, and we expect you to use it daily. It handles the manual work so you can deliver on what actually matters.
You'll thrive here if outcomes excite you more than process, if impact motivates you more than titles, and if you want hard problems, real ownership, and teammates who love winning, building, and doing it together.
The bar is high. The pace is real. We're building for what's next, for humans and agents. Recent recognition:
Forbes' America's Best Startup Employers 2026 . 2nd in Crypto Services on Fortune's inaugural Crypto 100 The Sunday Times Best Places to Work two years running Research has shown that women are less likely than men to apply for this role if they do not have experience in 100% of these areas. Please know that this list is indicative, and that we would still love to hear from you even if you feel that you are only a 75% match. Skills can be learned, diversity cannot.
Locations Supported 🌍
United States
Additional locations may be considered
Relocation available: Case by case
Work pattern:
Remote, with opportunities to spend meaningful time working with the team in New York.
About the Opportunity
PayBox is one of MoonPay’s newest products. It enables people to transact directly through AI, connecting agents with payments, wallets and applications without requiring users to hand over their underlying credentials.
We launched PayBox recently and saw strong initial traction. Now we’re building the next phase.
There are multiple major product tracks underway: expanding PayBox across AI platforms, building peer-to-peer payment experiences, integrating with DeFi applications, growing our plugin ecosystem and significantly improving the end-to-end product experience.
We’re looking for an exceptional Staff Software Engineer to help own PayBox and take it through this next stage.
You’ll work closely with our Chief Engineer and a small, highly focused team. This is much closer to a founding engineer role than a traditional Staff engineering position. You’ll be expected to identify what matters, reason through difficult problems, make decisions and take areas of the product from idea through to production.
That could mean designing and building an entirely new PayBox capability one week and obsessing over the details of an onboarding flow the next. We care equally about ambitious technical problems and the less glamorous work required to make a product great.
We’re not looking for a specific technology or domain background. You don’t need previous crypto or MCP experience. We’re looking for an exceptional generalist engineer who can learn quickly, think independently, build end-to-end and deeply cares about what they ship.
What You Will Do
Own significant areas of PayBox end-to-end, from identifying the problem and defining the approach through to building, shipping and iterating in production.
Help take a recently launched product through its next phase of 0→1 development and growth.
Requirements
- ·We’re deliberately not defining the ideal candidate by a particular technology stack or domain.
- ·There are three things we care deeply about: technical ability, motivation and thoroughness. We’re looking for someone exceptional across all three.
- ·Must-have experience and skills
- ·Exceptional technical reasoning. You have strong engineering fundamentals and can break down unfamiliar, ambiguous problems and reason towards good solutions.
- ·High agency. You don’t wait for perfectly defined requirements or someone else to identify what needs doing. You find important problems and take responsibility for solving them.
Benefits
No benefits package published with this listing. Ask about it at first interview.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at MoonPay, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (US East).
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
Found 1d ago. Last checked 23 Sept. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.
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