Backend Engineer, Senior

Posted 3 Hours Ago
2 Locations
Remote
175K-210K Annually
Senior level
Blockchain • Consumer Web • Fintech • Software • Cryptocurrency
The Role
The Senior Backend Engineer will build scalable backend systems, design new features, and maintain production systems while collaborating with the distributed team on impactful product goals.
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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 forRole-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

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.

Top Skills

Bigtable
Docker
Flask
GCP
GraphQL
Postgres
Python
Redis
Terraform
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The Company
San Francisco, CA
90 Employees
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

CoinTracker is on a mission to increase the world’s financial freedom and prosperity. By enabling seamless cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and accurate tax reporting, we empower people to better understand their crypto portfolio, comply with existing regulations, and make better financial decisions.

Today, our users track over $50 billion of assets across 300+ exchanges and 8,000+ cryptocurrencies, which accounts for more than 3% of the entire crypto market. We recently raised a $100M Series A round from a world-class group of investors, and are partnered with leading companies such as Coinbase, OpenSea, and Intuit.

We are profitable and growing rapidly to meet the increased adoption of cryptocurrency and demand for our products. We are in a strong position to become a foundational layer in the crypto ecosystem, and aim to be a generational company. Reach out to learn more!

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