Crypto Payments, DeFi & Web3 Monetisation Specialist

About Casini and Role Overview

Casini is hiring a specialist focused on the operational and commercial aspects of crypto payments, decentralized finance (DeFi), and Web3 monetization strategies. This full-time remote position invites candidates internationally, with a preference for those able to travel occasionally to Yerevan, Armenia for team engagements and collaboration. The ideal candidate combines practical cryptocurrency expertise with a disciplined operational mindset, security awareness, solid commercial judgment, and meticulous documentation practices. This role explicitly excludes investment advice or trading speculation.

Key Responsibilities

• Track Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency market conditions, network statuses, transaction fees, and industry updates.
• Manage cryptocurrency payments workflow, including transfers, wallet management, exchanges, and payment providers according to established security and authorization protocols.
• Ensure blockchain transactions are monitored for accuracy and processed timely with reconciliation of deposits, withdrawals, wallet, and exchange balances against fiat settlement records.
• Conduct pre-transfer validations including recipient/address verification, selecting appropriate networks and tokens, fee assessments, transaction limits, and compliance with approval processes.
• Maintain comprehensive transaction logs, wallet registers, treasury reports, and documentation that support audit readiness.
• Investigate and resolve delayed, erroneous, disputed, or suspicious transactions and document these interventions.
• Analyze operational and market data to produce concise reports offering actionable insights for management decisions.
• Assist in integrating, testing, and optimizing crypto payment solutions, custody arrangements, on/off-ramp services, exchanges, and liquidity providers.
• Support treasury operations by managing crypto liquidity tailored for operational payments, contractors, suppliers, and emergency needs.
• Help sustain wallet architecture separating funds by use-case such as treasury, operational liquidity, payroll, customer payouts, and experimental exposure.
• Oversee wallet security protocols including key management, access controls, backup, recovery, incident response, and conduct periodic testing.
• Stay involved with custody models including cold storage, institutional custody, multi-signature/MPC wallets, exchange accounts, and siloed operational wallets.
• Monitor exposures related to asset volatility, stablecoins, counterparties, network congestion, and liquidity limitations.
• Engage in wallet permission reviews, access audits, control assessments, and incident response drills.
• Collaborate with finance, operations, legal, compliance, product, and management teams on crypto compliance and related initiatives.
• Assist with AML/CFT, KYC/KYB processes, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring (KYT), Travel Rule compliance, recordkeeping, and related escalation procedures.
• Use blockchain explorers and analytics tools to monitor transactions and escalate suspicious or high-risk activities per company policy.
• Maintain confidentiality around company balances, counterparties, transactions, commercial arrangements, and control protocols.
• Continuously research DeFi and Web3 advancements relevant to payments, partnerships, treasury, products, and business growth.
• Evaluate DeFi protocols including DEXs, lending platforms, staking, bridges, and layer-2 solutions for opportunities and risks.
• Assess Web3 infrastructure elements such as wallet connection flows, payment APIs, RPC providers, blockchain data tools, and smart contract integration.
• Identify and propose innovations involving crypto, stablecoins, DeFi, and Web3 that optimize payment conversion, cut costs, increase user retention, build partnerships, or drive revenue.
• Analyze crypto-payment funnels to diagnose friction points and recommend process enhancements.
• Develop business cases evaluating commercial impact, costs, risk, compliance, customer experience, and key performance indicators.
• Conduct pilot projects with cross-functional teams and advise on scaling, modification, or termination.
• Prepare detailed reporting on crypto user acquisition, payment success, fees, withdrawal performance, retention, revenue contribution, and exceptions.

Candidate Requirements

• Solid hands-on knowledge of Bitcoin, blockchain fundamentals, crypto markets, wallets, exchanges, transaction fees, blockchain explorers, and typical crypto payment flows.
• Experience in crypto payments, wallet or exchange operations, digital asset treasury functions, reconciliation, fintech, payments, blockchain, iGaming, or equivalent financial operational roles.
• Understanding of major blockchain networks, confirmation mechanisms, network congestion challenges, address formatting, failure modes, and stablecoins.
• Expertise in wallet security practices, including hot and cold storage, multi-signature setups, MPC and custody procedures, access controls, address allowlisting, private key management, and recovery processes.
• Adept at interpreting operational/market data to detect significant trends and prepare clear, actionable reports and recommendations.
• Strong analytical abilities, problem-solving skills, attention to detail, documentation capabilities, and excellent communication.
• High integrity, discretion, calmness under pressure, and focus on accuracy especially in time-critical or high-value situations.
• Proficiency in written and spoken English.
• Advanced skills with Excel or Google Sheets; knowledge of SQL, Python, BI dashboards, payment analytics, or API-based reporting considered a plus.
• Independent work capability in remote environments with reliable communication across global teams and differing time zones.
• Willingness and ability to travel to Yerevan for periodic face-to-face meetings when needed.
• In-depth knowledge of DeFi concepts such as DEXs, AMMs, lending/borrowing mechanisms, staking, governance, tokenomics, and collateral/liquidation processes.
• Familiarity with Web3 self-custodial wallets, wallet connection workflows, RPC providers, token standards, decentralized applications (dApps), smart contract interactions, and on-chain data.
• Understanding of smart contract and on-chain risks including phishing, scams, exploited frontends, oracle manipulation, bridge and governance attacks, liquidity risks, and stablecoin instability.
• Able to verify networks, token contracts, transactions, identify token approvals, and escalate issues when necessary.

Desirable Extras

• Experience working with OTC desks, custody providers, wallet infrastructure, payment orchestration platforms, exchange APIs, treasury tools, or blockchain analytics/KYT solutions.
• Familiarity with USDT and USDC settlements across multiple blockchains such as Ethereum, Tron, Solana, Polygon, Arbitrum, Bitcoin, among others.
• Professional exposure to DEXs, liquidity pools, lending protocols, staking platforms, bridges, and Web3 wallets.
• Understanding of EVM-compatible chains, Solana, smart-contract risk evaluation, DeFi due diligence, on-chain analytics, APIs, RPC, webhooks, and event indexing.
• Knowledge of Armenian and/or Russian languages advantageous.

Security, Compliance and Operational Guidelines

• Adhere strictly to wallet access controls, transaction preparation and approval workflows, allowlisting, and detailed recordkeeping.
• Avoid connecting company wallets to any unapproved dApps, browser extensions, websites, smart contracts, networks, or service providers.
• Require thorough verification of domain, network, contract addresses, actions, and internal authorizations before signing any transactions, messages, permits, or wallet connection requests.
• Exercise heightened caution and escalate all unlimited token approvals, unverified contracts, unknown bridges, liquidity pools, and unaudited smart contracts as potential risks.
• Ensure that all material digital asset and partnership initiatives have received proper internal approval prior to launch.
• This role excludes any unapproved trading, misleading investment claims, market manipulation, or bypassing regulatory responsibilities including responsible gaming, AML, KYC, sanctions and consumer protection laws.
• Focus remains on secure, transparent, compliant, and sustainable commercial development rather than speculative or short-term volume growth.

What Casini Offers

• Remote full-time employment with a fast-growing, international company.
• Flexible work arrangements with an emphasis on in-person collaboration in Yerevan as feasible.
• Opportunity to gain expertise in blockchain, crypto, DeFi, Web3, payments, treasury, and digital asset technology domains.
• A competitive salary commensurate with experience and skills.
• Performance bonuses aligned with operational, security, commercial, and process enhancement goals.
• Career development avenues in crypto operations, treasury, compliance, DeFi, and digital asset strategy fields.