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This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Software Engineer - MetaMask (Money Movement) based in Canada.
This is a senior technical leadership role focused on shaping and delivering fiat-to-crypto money movement experiences at global scale. You will architect and build secure, high-performance systems that power onboarding, payments, and asset movement across web, mobile, and extension platforms. The work sits at the intersection of fintech, infrastructure, and Web3, where reliability and trust are mission-critical. You will guide engineering direction across multiple squads while remaining deeply hands-on in system design and implementation. The environment is fast-moving, highly collaborative, and fully remote, with teams distributed globally. Your work will directly impact revenue-generating user flows used by millions of users worldwide. This is an opportunity to shape core financial infrastructure for next-generation digital assets.
Accountabilities:
You will lead the technical vision and execution for money movement systems, ensuring scalable and secure fiat-to-crypto experiences across platforms. You will design and deliver resilient infrastructure while mentoring engineers and driving cross-functional alignment.
- Define and lead the technical architecture for fiat-to-crypto payment flows, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security across systems
- Build and enhance backend and full-stack systems using modern web technologies, supporting seamless integration with third-party payment providers
- Guide and mentor junior and mid-level engineers across backend, frontend, mobile, and desktop domains
- Partner with product managers, designers, analysts, and platform teams to deliver cohesive cross-platform experiences
- Own architectural decisions tied to revenue-critical user journeys, ensuring robustness and long-term maintainability
- Drive engineering best practices including code quality, testing, observability, and system documentation
- Oversee performance, reliability, and operational excellence of money movement services
- Collaborate across platform teams to unify user experiences across mobile apps and browser extensions, including MetaMask
Requirements
This role requires deep engineering expertise, strong architectural thinking, and proven experience leading complex, distributed systems in high-scale environments. You should be comfortable operating at Staff-level scope while staying hands-on technically.
- 5+ years of full-stack or backend engineering experience, including Staff-level or equivalent technical leadership responsibility
- Strong experience with TypeScript, Node.js, React Native, and modern distributed web architectures
- Proven track record of driving technical strategy and delivering impact across multiple teams or workstreams
- Experience building or integrating payment systems, fintech platforms, or financial infrastructure
- Strong understanding of APIs, third-party integrations, system security, and failure-mode design
- Experience mentoring engineers and leading cross-functional technical initiatives in remote-first environments
- Strong communication skills with the ability to align technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Solid grounding in engineering fundamentals including testing, maintainability, and scalable system design
- Bonus: experience with fiat on/off-ramps, DeFi systems, or Web3 infrastructure and wallets such as MetaMask
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package (US base salary range: $146,000 – $218,000 USD, excluding bonus, equity, and additional benefits)
- Equity participation and long-term incentive opportunities (role-dependent)
- Fully remote, globally distributed work environment
- Flexible working culture supporting autonomy and deep work
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage (varies by location)
- High-impact engineering work at the forefront of Web3 and financial infrastructure
- Opportunities to work on large-scale systems used by millions of global users
- Strong culture of learning, experimentation, and technical ownership.
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