Staff Engineer, Crypto

As a Staff Engineer, Crypto at Deel, you'll design and build the core infrastructure behind DLUSD, Deel's USD-denominated stablecoin. You'll own the systems that let millions of contractors hold pay in a dollar-backed balance, earn rewards, and spend via the Deel Card, all within the platform they already use. DLUSD launched in June 2026 and is expanding across Latin America, APAC, MENA, and Africa on a modern stack: issued through Bridge, settled on Tempo, held in Privy embedded wallets, and powered by Morpho vaults for Earn rewards. Your work will make blockchain invisible to contractors, who see only a dollar balance that just works.

What you'll do

• 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 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

What you bring

• 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 and off-chain reconciliation, and peg stability considerations
• Strong backend engineering skills (Node.js/TypeScript or adjacent stacks) 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
• A track record leading technical initiatives across teams at staff level, and communicating clearly with non-engineering partners like Compliance and Legal

Nice to have

• Experience with DeFi lending protocols such as Morpho or Aave
• Experience with stablecoin issuance platforms, payments L1s or L2s, or building financial products in emerging markets

What we offer

• Competitive salary in USD, localized to your country's currency using market-aligned conversion
• Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status, and location
• Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country
• Flexibility of remote work, including optional WeWork access

About Deel

Deel is an all-in-one payroll and HR platform for global teams, combining HRIS, payroll, compliance, benefits, performance, and equipment management. The company operates in 150+ countries and paid $11.2 billion to workers in nearly 100 currencies in 2024. Deel is backed by a $17.3 billion valuation and $1 billion in Annual Recurring Revenue, recognized as a CNBC Disruptor 50, Forbes Cloud 100, and Deloitte Fast 500 company.