Staff Full Stack Engineer

Who you are

• 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
• We strongly encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply

What the job involves

• As a Trust, Risk & Safety Engineer at Phantom, you’ll build the systems that safeguard our users, products, and platform
• Working across the stack, you’ll detect and prevent abuse, assess emerging risks, reduce financial loss, and equip internal teams with the tools and intelligence needed to respond quickly and effectively
• The ideal candidate brings high agency, a strong sense of ownership, exceptional technical judgment and product taste, a relentless work ethic, and the emotional intelligence to navigate complex, high-stakes situations
• Fraud prevention: Build real-time risk controls and decisioning systems for products such as ACH, debit cards, onramps, off-ramps, and other money movement experiences
• Scam and abuse detection: Develop signals, models, and product interventions that identify malicious wallets, transactions, applications, and user behavior
• Identity and compliance infrastructure: Build scalable KYC, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, case management, and audit systems
• Data and intelligence: Create pipelines and tools that combine on-chain activity, product data, and third-party signals into actionable risk insights
• Product safety: Partner with product and engineering teams to design safeguards into new features from the beginning without compromising the user experience
• Operational tooling: Build internal tools that help Risk, Compliance, Support, and Security teams investigate incidents and take action efficiently
• Team building: Help establish the technical foundations and engineering culture for a new, high-impact function at Phantom

Benefits

• Daily meal benefit
• Unlimited PTO
• Comprehensive health plans
• Learning & development
• Montlhy wellness benefit
• Global company offsites