Staff Full Stack Engineer, Phantom
Trust, Safety & Risk
$200-250k
+ Equity
Crypto wallet built for everyone
Be an early applicant
Crypto wallet built for everyone
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-250k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make the digital economy safe and easy to use for everyone.
Role
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
Our take
Cryptocurrency wallets provide a way to protect secret information that gives users control over your digital assets. Many crypto enthusiasts prefer the wallet option as non-custodial wallets remove the third-party option and users gain full control over their data. Phantom is a cryptocurrency wallet that creates a space for users to buy, send, receive, swap tokens and collect NFTs.
Phantom hosts the Solana blockchain, though Ethereum is generally more popular within the crypto world, Solana is said to have faster speeds and lower transaction costs. Offering the same wallet features as its competitors, the company is setting itself apart with newer features like the “Burn NFTs” feature allowing users to remove spam NFTs sent by attackers and support them in dodging NFT theft prevalent in the sector. The company prides itself on extremely high-security factors.
Founded in 2021, the company has an impressive firm valuation of $3B and has earned its place as a top-rated crypto wallet. As the crypto space continues to evolve, Phantom is positioning itself not just as a wallet, but as a comprehensive platform for managing the full range of digital assets and decentralized applications.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2022
$12m
SERIES A
Dec 2021
$4m
SEED
Total funding: $16.3m
Company benefits
- Daily meal benefit
- Unlimited PTO
- Comprehensive health plans
- Learning & development
- Montlhy wellness benefit
- Global company offsites
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Brandon Millman
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Phantom in 2021, Brand was an Engineering Manager & Tech Lead at 0x Labs and a Senior Engineer at Twitter.
Chris Kalani
(Co-Founder & CPO)Chris previously spent nearly 3 years at 0x Labs as a Director of Design and General Manager of Match. Before that, they co-founded Wake where they served as the CEO for over 4 years.
Francesco Agosti
(Co-Founder & CTO)Francesco previously worked at 0x Labs as a Software Engineer and Tech Lead. Prior to that, they were a Software Engineer at Yelp and a Lead Engineer at Code at Uni.
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