Senior Crypto Risk Architect | Hybrid/Remote

Inflection Managing Partner, Inc.; New York (NY); Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary package

Equity-like incentives: performance-al

Private healthcare benefits

Hybrid/Remote work options

Annual training budget

Job summary

MoonPay is seeking a Principal Risk Analyst to identify, measure, and mitigate risks in a high-velocity crypto payments business. You will work with Product, Engineering, Compliance, Treasury, and Operations to enable rapid growth with strong controls.

You will assess counterparty, liquidity, market, and technical risks, develop KRIs, and provide independent risk reviews for new proposals. Strong crypto payments knowledge is essential.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years in risk management at payments/fintech/exchange/bbank/crypto firm.
• Hands-on experience with credit/counterparty, operational, or market risk.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills; comfortable building dashboards and models.

Responsibilities

• Review risk across payment flows and funding methods.
• Assess counterparty risk across liquidity providers, exchanges, custodians, and banks.
• Evaluate exposure from cross-chain bridges, DEX swaps, and smart contracts.
• Review risks in crypto trading, including price slippage and hedging liquidity.
• Collaborate with Treasury on market, liquidity, and FX risk and hedging strategies.
• Provide independent review of new product proposals; ensure risks and controls are embedded.
• Test business continuity and resilience; maintain risk framework and KRIs.
• Review tech and information security risks across core systems and third parties.
• Prepare risk reports for leadership, board, auditors, and partners.
• Conduct third-party risk assessments and continuous monitoring.

Skills

Risk management

Credit/Counterparty risk

Operational risk

Market risk

Quantitative analysis

Data dashboards

Crypto payments knowledge

Blockchain fundamentals

Cross-chain bridges

DeFi familiarity

Clear communication

Education

Professional risk certification (FRM/PRM/CAMS)

Quantitative degree

Tools

Chainalysis

TRM

Elliptic

Job description

MoonPay is seeking a Principal Risk Analyst to identify, measure, and mitigate risks in a high-velocity crypto payments business. You will work with Product, Engineering, Compliance, Treasury, and Operations to enable rapid growth with strong controls.

You will assess counterparty, liquidity, market, and technical risks, develop KRIs, and provide independent risk reviews for new proposals. Strong crypto payments knowledge is essential.