Senior Crypto Risk Architect

MoonPay Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

MoonPay Inc. is seeking a Principal Risk Analyst in New York for a hybrid compliance role. You will identify, measure, and mitigate risks across crypto payments, liquidity, and market activities, partnering with Product, Engineering, Compliance, Treasury, and Operations.

You will develop the risk framework, KRIs, and risk reporting for senior leadership, while ensuring controls are embedded from inception and business continuity is tested.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years in risk management at payments/fintech/crypto firms.
• Hands-on experience with credit/counterparty, operational, or market risk in regulated or high-growth environments.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills; comfortable building dashboards and models from raw data.
• Crypto payments knowledge: end-to-end flows, stablecoins, cross-chain bridges, and related risk concepts.

Responsibilities

• Review & challenge risk assessments across payment flows (on-ramps/off-ramps, card funding, settlements).
• Assess counterparty risk across liquidity providers, exchanges, custodians, banks and processors.
• Evaluate exposure from cross-chain bridges, DEX swaps, and smart contracts; assess protocol risk.
• Review crypto trading risks: price slippage, latency, and hedging liquidity across venues.
• Work with Treasury on market, liquidity, and FX risk; hedging strategies and stablecoin scenarios.
• Provide independent review of new product proposals with Product and Engineering.

Skills

Risk mgmt (5-10y)

Quantitative analytics

Dashboards & models

Crypto payments knowledge

Regulated/high-growth experience

Tools

Chainalysis

TRM

Elliptic

Job description

MoonPay Inc. is seeking a Principal Risk Analyst in New York for a hybrid compliance role. You will identify, measure, and mitigate risks across crypto payments, liquidity, and market activities, partnering with Product, Engineering, Compliance, Treasury, and Operations.

You will develop the risk framework, KRIs, and risk reporting for senior leadership, while ensuring controls are embedded from inception and business continuity is tested.