Backend Engineer

1 Month ago • 2 Years + • Backend Development • $146,000 PA - $175,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

CoinTracker is seeking a Backend Engineer to join their globally distributed team. The role involves building foundational tools in the cryptocurrency space, enabling consumers and businesses to track their cryptocurrency portfolios, investment performance, and taxes. The engineer will be responsible for building new features, products, integrations, and backend services, designing scalable systems to support millions of users, and owning and delivering top-level product and engineering objectives. Collaboration with team members across the company is essential. The ideal candidate will have strong CS fundamentals, experience with backend services, and an interest in financial products or cryptocurrency.
Must have:
  • Strong CS fundamentals (algorithms, data structures, system design)
  • Experience evolving startup architecture
  • 2+ years software development experience
  • Effective problem-solver
  • Comfortable in startup environment
  • Strong fundamentals with cloud platform (GCP/AWS)
  • Interested in finance/crypto
  • Able to work remotely and overlap with PT hours
Good to have:
  • Experience with Python, Flask, GraphQL, Postgres, BigTable, Redis
  • Experience with GCP, Terraform, Docker
Perks:
  • Equity in CoinTracker
  • Medical benefits
  • Dental benefits
  • Vision benefits
  • 401(k)
  • Life insurance
  • Paid time off

Job Details

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

  • 💲 $80B+ 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

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

  • Write high-quality 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 mid-size company growth

  • 2+ years of software development experience

  • Productive, resourceful, and effective at problem-solving

  • Drawn to an early-stage, high-growth startup environment with less stability and more ambiguity

  • Strong fundamentals with a cloud platform like GCP or AWS

  • Interested in financial products and/or 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 country-specific 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, Styled-Components

  • Mobile: React Native, Expo, GraphQL

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

  • 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 $146,000 - $175,000. 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.

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