Backend Engineer
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
- 1+ year(s) of software development experience as an IC.
- 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 a startup mindset: you’re resourceful, adaptable, and not afraid of ambiguity.
- Able to work effectively in a remote setting and able to overlap with our core hours of 9 AM to 12 PM PT
- [Bonus] Interest in cryptocurrency, financial products, or tax
- [Bonus] If you've shipped your own side projects, let us know!
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 $121,000 - $146,000 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.