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Staff Engineer, Full Stack (Trust, Safety & Risk)
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote
Experience
Senior · 8+ years
Job description
A Trust, Risk & Safety Engineer at Phantom builds systems across the stack to detect and prevent fraud, scams and abuse, and to support identity, compliance and risk operations. The role is for a new, high-impact function safeguarding users, products and the platform.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote
- Languages
- English
- Pay
- USD 200,000 – 250,000 / year
What you'll do
- Build real-time risk controls and decisioning systems for products such as ACH, debit cards, onramps, off-ramps, and other money movement experiences
- Develop signals, models, and product interventions that identify malicious wallets, transactions, applications, and user behavior
- Build scalable KYC, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, case management, and audit systems
- Create pipelines and tools that combine on-chain activity, product data, and third-party signals into actionable risk insights
- Partner with product and engineering teams to design safeguards into new features from the beginning without compromising the user experience
- Build internal tools that help Risk, Compliance, Support, and Security teams investigate incidents and take action efficiently
- Help establish the technical foundations and engineering culture for a new, high-impact function at Phantom
What we're looking for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 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
- English language proficiency
Your team
Trust, Risk & Safety
A new, high-impact function at Phantom
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity
- Comprehensive insurance (medical/dental/vision) — 100% covered
- Stipend for your ideal remote set-up
- Flexible hours and a supportive remote environment
- Unlimited vacation: Take time when you need it (and we really mean it!)
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Monthly wellness benefit
- Weekly meal benefit
- Global off-sites
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About Phantom
Connect the world to the freedom of open markets
Phantom lets tens of millions of people access global markets that never close, including perpetuals, prediction markets, tokenized assets, stablecoins and memes. With self-custody and access to open networks at its core, Phantom lets users control their financial moves in the same app they use to safely store or spend money worldwide.
Key facts
- around 180 people
- Crypto wallet / financial technology
- Reached #1 in Google Play's finance category
- Consistently ranks in the top 50 apps across all categories
- Fully remote
- Backed by a $150M Series C investment from a16z, Sequoia Capital and Paradigm
- Supports Solana, Ethereum, Polygon and Bitcoin with more networks to come
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