Job title: Senior Backend Engineer (Remote)

Company: CoinTracker

Job description: makes cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and tax compliance simple. Beyond cryptocurrency, we are building a general automated financial assistant for all financial assets. Our mission is to increase the financial freedom and prosperity of the world.

Some things we’re proud of:

???? 3% of all global cryptocurrency assets are tracked on CoinTracker ($50B daily)

???? Profitable

???? Partnered with Coinbase, TurboTax, OpenSea, and other industry leaders

???? Venture-backed by Accel, Y Combinator, and other top investors

????️ Founders: previously built TextNow (200M downloads), was previously a product manager at Google

Learn more about .

Your opportunity

Join our tight-knit early-stage distributed team that thrives on interesting technical challenges and building magical products that improve people’s lives. As an early engineer on the team, you will work on scaling our backend systems and directly own top-level product and engineering objectives.

You will

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

Evolve our technical architecture, infrastructure, code quality, tools, and culture to continually step up the quality and speed of our engineering systems

Help interview new engineers

You may enjoy this role if you

Love building great products and engineering systems

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 scaling the architecture of a startup to a mid-size company

Sample projects you might work on

Implement real-time transaction synchronization with blockchains and exchanges

Develop a smart order routing platform to enable cryptocurrency trading across exchanges, taking into account full transaction history, tax lots, fee detection, arbitrage, and slippage

Implement tax-loss harvesting to reduce capital gains taxes for cryptocurrency users

Some of the skills we’re excited about

5+ 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

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

Our engineering process includes

Code reviews

Continuous integration

Multiple daily automated deployments to production

Automated testing with >85% code coverage

Some of the technical challenges we face are

Lots of data – billions of data points to track transactions and market pair prices

Data structures & algorithms – automated transfer detection, cost basis tracking, tax optimization, and more. Your CS fundamentals finally come in handy!

Scalability – some cryptocurrency users, such as algorithmic traders, accumulate millions of transactions per year. CoinTracker needs to work seamlessly for those power crypto traders.

Blockchain – whether it’s running our own nodes, implementing xPub address generation and traversal, or parsing smart contracts to seamlessly support decentralized trading, we get our hands dirty with core blockchain technology

Technical complexity – integrating with hundreds of exchanges and blockchains and supporting thousands of cryptocurrencies means we have to methodically architect our software and build critical monitoring systems to deliver a robust and accurate platform

Product challenges – building a consumer finance product that works flawlessly for our global user base and through our partner integrations with top crypto exchanges, marketplaces, and tax-filing software

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!

What’s it like working at CoinTracker?

We are a fully internationally distributed, tight-knit team. We have minimal process, and the majority of our time is spent working and collaborating asynchronously through tools like Figma, Github, Google Meet, Linear, Notion, Slack, Zendesk. We also stay aligned and bonded through weekly sprints, standups, all hands, and socials. We aim to empower every individual on the team with full transparency, ownership, autonomy, and clear objectives. Learn more about our .

If this sounds exciting, we’d love to hear from you! Not sure you’re a perfect fit? Reach out anyway. We’re looking for awesome individuals, not folks who perfectly match a job posting.

Expected salary:

Location: Chicago, IL

Job date: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 22:56:40 GMT

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