Staff Engineer, Crypto

About the role

Millions of contractors watch their earnings lose value the moment they land. With DLUSD, Deel's USD-denominated stablecoin, contractors can hold pay in a dollar-backed balance, earn rewards on it, and soon spend it anywhere with the Deel Card—all without leaving the platform they already use to get paid. DLUSD launched in June 2026 with early access in Argentina and is expanding across Latin America, APAC, MENA, and Africa. It runs on a modern stablecoin stack: issued through Bridge's Open Issuance platform, settled on Tempo, held in Privy embedded wallets, with Earn rewards powered by Morpho vaults. You'll build the systems that make all of that invisible: contractors see a dollar balance that just works, not a blockchain. This is one of the largest real-world stablecoin deployments in payroll. You'll shape how it scales from one market to dozens.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the core services behind DLUSD: minting and redemption flows, wallet orchestration, on-chain settlement, and reconciliation between fiat and stablecoin ledgers
• Own integrations with our issuance, wallet, and settlement partners (Bridge, Privy, Tempo) and the Morpho-based Earn rewards infrastructure
• Set the technical direction for the stablecoin platform as it expands to new markets, chains, and products like card spend
• Build monitoring, alerting, and reconciliation systems that keep customer funds safe and balances accurate to the cent
• Partner with Product, Compliance, and Legal to ship features that meet regulatory requirements across many jurisdictions
• Raise the bar across the Crypto team through design reviews, mentorship, and hands-on pairing
• Lead incident response for the systems you own, and design them so incidents stay rare and small

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years building production crypto or blockchain systems that move real money
• Deep knowledge of EVM-based chains, smart contract integration patterns, and wallet infrastructure (embedded wallets, key management, transaction signing)
• Experience with stablecoin mechanics: issuance and redemption, reserve models, on-chain/off-chain reconciliation, and peg stability considerations
• Strong backend engineering skills (we work in Node.js/TypeScript; adjacent stacks welcome) and experience designing high-throughput, correctness-critical financial systems
• A security-first mindset: you think in threat models, idempotency, and double-entry ledgers, and you treat customer funds as sacred
• Track record of leading technical initiatives across teams at staff level, and communicating clearly with non-engineering partners like Compliance and Legal

Qualifications

• Bonus: experience with DeFi lending protocols (Morpho, Aave), stablecoin issuance platforms, payments L1s/L2s, or building financial products in emerging markets

Benefits

• Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location
• Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country
• The flexibility of remote work, including optional WeWork access

Pay

Our salary range reflects gross base salary. For commercial roles with commission eligibility, this figure represents On-Target Earnings (OTE), inclusive of base salary and target commission. Salary ranges are quoted in USD as a consistent global reference. Your offer will be localized to your country's currency using a market-aligned conversion. Final pay is based on objective, job-related criteria including experience, skills, and location.