Backend Engineer, Senior (United States & Canada)

Overview

CoinTracker makes cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and tax compliance simple. CoinTracker enables consumers and businesses to seamlessly track their cryptocurrency portfolio, investment performance, taxes, and more. We are a globally distributed team on a mission to enable everyone in the world to use crypto with peace of mind. Learn more about our mission, culture, and hiring process.

Some things we’re proud of

• 🛠️ Building foundational tools in the cryptocurrency space
• 📄 Over 1M tax forms generated
• 💲 $250B+ in cryptocurrency is tracked on CoinTracker (~over 5% of the entire crypto market)
• 🤝 Partnered with Coinbase, H&R Block, Intuit TurboTax, MetaMask, OpenSea, Phantom, Solana, and Uniswap
• 🗺️ Founders: Jon previously built TextNow (200M downloads), Chandan was previously a product manager at Google & Google[x]
• 💼 $100M+ venture capital raised from Accel, General Catalyst, Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Kraken Ventures, Intuit Ventures, 776 Ventures, Balaji Srinivasan, Claire Hughes Johnson, Gokul Rajaram, Serena Williams, Zach Perret
• 🌴 Awesome benefits

Your mission

Join our close-knit, early-stage distributed team, where we tackle exciting technical challenges and create transformative crypto products that give people peace of mind. As one of the engineers, you'll play a key role in scaling our backend systems and take direct ownership of high-impact product and engineering goals.

What You Will Do

• Build new features, products, integrations, and back-end services
• Design scalable systems to support millions of users
• Own and deliver top-level product and engineering objectives
• Collaborate with team members across the company

What We Look For

Role-agnostic

• Impact: Demonstrated ability to drive business impact
• Mission alignment: Hungry and motivated about making progress towards our mission of Enabling everyone in the world to use crypto with peace of mind.
• Trust: Say what you believe. Do what you say.
• Communication: Able to clearly talk about the details and also zoom out to the bigger picture

Role-specific

• 5+ years of professional (non-internship) experience as a backend engineer, preferably in the data engineering or crypto/finance domain. Experience in crypto is strongly preferred.
• Have strong CS fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, system design, and distributed systems. Deep knowledge of backend technologies, including databases, orchestrators, messaging systems, data pipelines, and more.
• Write high-quality code, value software testing, and uphold best practices in engineering, security, and design.
• Experience designing, scaling, and maintaining production systems, ideally within high-growth or early-stage environments. or drawn to high growth stage startups.
• Strong fundamentals with a cloud platform like GCP or AWS
• Able to work effectively in a remote setting and able to overlap with our core hours of 9 AM to 12 PM PT / 12 - 3pm EST

Sample projects you might work on

• Scale our data ingestion platform to handle millions of blockchain and exchange transactions efficiently
• Leverage AI technologies to automate our integration workflows
• Build and maintain high-quality blockchain and exchange integrations, ensuring performance, correctness, and long-term maintainability.Go deep into DeFi protocols to support complex transaction classification.

Our engineering process includes

• Code reviews
• Continuous integration
• Multiple daily automated deployments to production
• Automated testing with >85% code coverage

Our tech stack is

• Web: HTML, Typescript, React, React Native, Styled-Components
• Mobile: React Native, Expo, GraphQL
• Backend: Python, Flask, GraphQL, Postgres, BigTable, Redis, Python RQ, Temporal
• Infrastructure: GCP, Terraform, PostgreSQL, Docker, Pub/Sub, Datadog, PagerDuty
• You don’t need to know any or all of these, but be willing to learn!

The starting salary for this position is between $175,000 - $210,000 USD. Candidate's location does not impact the posted salary range. The actual compensation offered will be based on a variety of job-related factors including relevant skills, education, and experience. This position also includes equity in CoinTracker and benefits like medical, dental, vision, 401(k), life insurance, and PTO.