Job description
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 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
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
Sample projects you might work on
Scale our data ingestion platform to handle millions of blockchain and exchange transactions efficiently
Leverage AI technologies to automate our integration workflows
Build and maintain high-quality blockchain and exchange integrations, ensuring performance, correctness, and long-term maintainability.Go deep into DeFi protocols to support complex transaction classification.
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.
