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Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Moonpay
Location
London - Hybrid
Posted
27 days ago
Department
Software Engineering
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • Real-time serving experience with high-availability services under strict latency budgets
  • Systems thinking with a holistic view of architecture and failure management
  • Strong engineering craft with a focus on maintainable and reliable code
  • Experience owning feature or data pipelines end-to-end
  • Ability to turn vague problems into actionable work and influence peers
Nice to have
  • Experience with decision explainability systems
  • Background in anomaly detection and identifying suspicious behavior
  • Familiarity with GCP, BigQuery, Bigtable, Memorystore, Vertex AI, and Kubernetes
What the job really is

As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at MoonPay, you will be responsible for owning the decisioning system and platform that processes real-time transactions, focusing on fraud detection and prevention. Your role involves building and maintaining the entire machine learning lifecycle, ensuring high availability and low latency for critical services, and continuously improving workflows and platform capabilities. You will also lead efforts to define solutions for ambiguous problems and set technical standards within the team.

Benefits
  • Competitive salary package
  • Equity package for all employees
  • Pay-for-performance equity bonus
  • Moonshot award for exceptional impact
  • Pension with employer contributions from day one
  • Employee referral program with rewards
Things to weigh
  • No salary listed
  • High expectations and fast-paced environment
  • Focus on real-time decisioning in a critical domain
  • Ambiguity in problem-solving is a key part of the role
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