Staff Engineer, Full Stack (Trust, Safety & Risk)

Responsibilities

• ▹Fraud prevention: build real-time risk controls and decisioning systems for products such as ACH, debit cards, onramps and off-ramps
• ▹Scam and abuse detection: develop signals, models and product interventions that identify malicious wallets, transactions, applications and user behavior
• ▹Identity and compliance infrastructure: build scalable KYC, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, case management and audit systems
• ▹Data and intelligence: create pipelines and tools combining on-chain activity, product data and third-party signals into actionable risk insights
• ▹Product safety: partner with product and engineering teams to design safeguards into new features from the start, without compromising user experience
• ▹Operational tooling: build internal tools that help Risk, Compliance, Support and Security teams investigate and act on incidents efficiently
• ▹Team building: help establish the technical foundations and engineering culture for a new, high-impact function at Phantom

Requirements

• ▹8+ years of full-time software engineering experience
• ▹Experience designing and operating reliable, data-intensive production systems
• ▹Strong product judgment and the ability to balance user experience, financial risk and operational complexity
• ▹Ability to work across frontend, backend, APIs, data pipelines and third-party integrations
• ▹Demonstrated interest in protecting users and building trustworthy financial products

Nice to have

• ▹Experience with fraud, risk, identity, KYC, AML, sanctions, payments, fintech or blockchain systems

Soft skills

About the company

Phantom's mission is to connect the world to the freedom of open markets; tens of millions of users access global, always-open markets through it (perpetuals, prediction markets, tokenized assets, stablecoins). It ranks #1 in Google Play's finance category, is a fully remote team of around 180 people, and is backed by a $150M Series C from a16z, Sequoia Capital and Paradigm.