Staff Engineer, Crypto

Salary: £45,000 - 85,000 per year

Requirements:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years building production crypto or blockchain systems that move real money.
• Deep knowledge of EVM-based chains, smart contract integration patterns, and wallet infrastructure, including embedded wallets, key management, and transaction signing.
• Experience with stablecoin mechanics, including issuance and redemption, reserve models, on-chain/off-chain reconciliation, and peg stability considerations.
• Strong backend engineering skills; we use Node.js and TypeScript, and adjacent stacks are welcome. Experience designing high-throughput, correctness-critical financial systems is required.
• A security-first mindset, with experience thinking in threat models, idempotency, and double-entry ledgers, and treating customer funds as a priority.
• Track record of leading technical initiatives across teams at staff level and communicating clearly with non-engineering partners such as Compliance and Legal.
• Bonus: experience with DeFi lending protocols such as Morpho or Aave, stablecoin issuance platforms, payments L1s/L2s, or building financial products in emerging markets.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build core DLUSD services, including minting and redemption flows, wallet orchestration, on-chain settlement, and reconciliation between fiat and stablecoin ledgers.
• Own integrations with issuance, wallet, and settlement partners, including Bridge, Privy, and Tempo, as well as the Morpho-based Earn rewards infrastructure.
• Set the technical direction for the stablecoin platform as it expands to new markets, chains, and products such as card spending.
• Build monitoring, alerting, and reconciliation systems that protect customer funds and keep balances accurate.
• Partner with Product, Compliance, and Legal to deliver features that meet regulatory requirements across jurisdictions.
• Raise the bar across our Crypto team through design reviews, mentorship, and hands-on pairing.
• Lead incident response for owned systems and design them to keep incidents rare and limited.

Technologies:

• Backend
• Blockchain
• Embedded
• Security
• TypeScript
• NodeJS
• AI
• Cloud

More:

We are Deel, an all-in-one payroll and HR platform for global teams, supporting workers in more than 150 countries. Our team of 7,000 spans over 100 countries and speaks 74 languages. In this role, you will help build the systems behind DLUSD, our USD-denominated stablecoin, which launched in June 2026 with early access in Argentina and is expanding across Latin America, APAC, MENA, and Africa. The platform uses Bridges Open Issuance, Tempo settlement, Privy embedded wallets, and Morpho-powered Earn rewards. This is a full-time role based in the United States or United Kingdom, with a gross base salary range of $130,000–$180,000 USD; final pay depends on experience, skills, and location, and offers are localized to the applicable country and currency. We offer stock grant opportunities, country- and employment-status-dependent perks and benefits, and optional flexible office membership through IWG. We are an equal-opportunity employer and provide application and interview accommodations on request.

last updated 40 week of 2026