Backend Engineer (United States & Canada)

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.

• 🛠️ 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

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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 1 - 5 years of software development experience (Multiple levels - junior/mid)

• 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

• Backend engineers on this team build new blockchain and exchange integrations and enrich blockchain data with DeFi categorization as well as exchange data with exchange-specific nuances. While primarily backend-focused, engineers work closely with the Customer Experience team and directly shape the CoinTracker products through the niche expertise they gain in exchange and blockchain data. If you’re excited about digging into the nuances of blockchain and exchange transactions, building reliable integrations at scale, and influencing the product roadmap through your technical and domain expertise, this is the role for you. You’ll also collaborate with the Assets team, which is responsible for crypto metadata and pricing.

• Code reviews

• Continuous integration

• Multiple daily automated deployments to production

• Automated testing with >85% code coverage

• 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 $121,000 - $175,000 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.