Principal Crypto Risk Architect – Remote

Castle Island; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working schedule

Private healthcare benefits

Annual training budget

Lunch credit

Home office setup allowance

Remote working allowance

Regular remote company offsites

Flexible Time Off

Job summary

MoonPay is seeking a Principal Risk Analyst to identify, measure, and mitigate risks in a fast-moving crypto payments business. You will partner with Product, Engineering, Compliance, Treasury, and Operations to enable rapid growth while maintaining controls.

You will evaluate cross-chain exposure, liquidity and market risks, and technology risks, while developing the risk framework, KRIs, and reporting for executives and the board.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years in risk management at a payments company, fintech, exchange, bank, or crypto firm.
• Hands-on experience with credit/counterparty, operational, or market risk in a regulated or high-growth environment.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills; comfortable building dashboards and models from raw data.
• Crypto payments knowledge essential: fiat-to-crypto and crypto-to-fiat flows, stablecoin settlement, etc.
• Understanding of blockchain fundamentals, cross-chain bridges, and bridge exploits.
• Knowledge of swaps, DEXs/AMMs, liquidity pools, slippage, MEV, and routing.
• Knowledge of hedging approaches in crypto (spot, futures, options) and stablecoins.
• Familiarity with stablecoin mechanics and smart contract risks/audits.
• Experience with blockchain analytics tools and on-chain data exploration.

Responsibilities

• Review & challenge risk assessments across payment flows, on-ramps/off-ramps, and settlement.
• Assess and monitor counterparty risk across liquidity providers, exchanges, custodians, and partners.
• Evaluate exposure from cross-chain bridges and smart contract interactions.
• Review risk for crypto trading, including price slippage and hedging liquidity.
• Work with Treasury on market, liquidity, FX risk, and hedging strategy.
• Provide independent review of new product proposals; identify risks and conditions.
• Review business continuity testing and impact analyses for resilience.
• Develop and evolve risk framework, KRIs, risk registers, and escalation procedures.
• Review tech and information security risks across core systems and suppliers.
• Prepare risk reporting for senior leadership, the board, auditors, and partners.
• Conduct third-party risk assessments and ongoing monitoring of key vendors.

Skills

Risk management

Quantitative skills

Dashboards/analytics

Crypto payments knowledge

Communication

Collaborative approach

Tools

Chainalysis

TRM

Elliptic

Job description

MoonPay is seeking a Principal Risk Analyst to identify, measure, and mitigate risks in a fast-moving crypto payments business. You will partner with Product, Engineering, Compliance, Treasury, and Operations to enable rapid growth while maintaining controls.

You will evaluate cross-chain exposure, liquidity and market risks, and technology risks, while developing the risk framework, KRIs, and reporting for executives and the board.