Senior Backend Engineer

Join our closeknit, earlystage distributed team, where we tackle exciting technical challenges and create transformative crypto products that give people peace of mind. As one of the engineers, youll play a key role in scaling our backend systems and take direct ownership of highimpact product and engineering goals.

What you will do

• Build new features, products, integrations, and backend services

• Design scalable systems to support millions of users

• Own and deliver toplevel product and engineering objectives

• Collaborate with team members across the company

• What we look for

  Roleagnostic

  • 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

  • Rolespecific

    • Have strong CS fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, system design, and distributed systems

    • Write highquality code, value software testing, and uphold best practices in engineering, security, and design

    • Enjoy designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services

    • Have experience evolving a startup’s architecture to support midsize company growth

    • 5+ years of software development experience

    • Productive, resourceful, and effective at problemsolving

    • Drawn to an earlystage, highgrowth startup environment with less stability and more ambiguity

    • Strong fundamentals with a cloud platform like GCP or AWS

    • Interested in financial products andor cryptocurrency

    • Able to work effectively in a remote setting and able to overlap with our core hours of 9 AM to 12 PM PT

    • Sample projects you might work on

      • Scale our data ingestion and computation platform to handle millions of transactions efficiently

      • Build a smart trade insights platform that recommends trades across exchanges, factoring in transaction history, tax lots, fee detection, arbitrage opportunities, and slippage

      • Integrate the latest countryspecific tax regulations to deliver accurate, compliant tax reports for users

      • 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, StyledComponents

          • Mobile: React Native, Expo, GraphQL

          • Backend: Python, Flask, GraphQL, Postgres, BigTable, Redis, Python RQ

          • Infrastructure: GCP, Terraform, PostgreSQL, Docker, PubSub, 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. The actual compensation offered will be based on a variety of jobrelated 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.