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CoinTracker

Staff Backend Engineer, Integrations

Job Posted 19 Days Ago Posted 19 Days Ago
Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
210K-240K
Senior level
Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
210K-240K
Senior level
As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will architect backend systems, drive technical projects, mentor engineers, and optimize data processing pipelines for millions of users.
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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

  • 💲 $80B+ 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 complex technical challenges and build transformative crypto products that give people peace of mind. As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will play a critical role in shaping our backend architecture, scaling our systems, and driving high-impact engineering and product initiatives. You'll work cross-functionally to influence technical direction and mentor engineers, helping us build a world-class engineering team.

What you will do
  • Architect and scale backend systems to support millions of users and transactions.

  • Lead and drive critical technical projects, ensuring long-term scalability, performance, and reliability.

  • Design and optimize complex data processing pipelines, distributed systems, and APIs.

  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, and other teams to align technical execution with business objectives.

  • Mentor and guide engineers, fostering technical excellence and best practices across the team.

  • Continuously improve system performance, observability, and maintainability.

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
  • 8+ years of backend engineering experience ideally in data engineering domains. Ideally 2+ years experience in data intensive systems and exposure to crypto strongly preferred.

  • Strong CS fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, system design, and performance optimization.

  • Deep knowledge of backend technologies, including databases, orchestrators, messaging systems, data pipelines, and more.

  • Track record of technical leadership, leading complex projects, mentoring engineers, and setting engineering standards.

  • Experience with large-scale data ingestion and processing systems. Has built/ owned ETL pipelines or data ingestion flows (eg: with Kafka, Spark etc). Understands data modeling and is comfortable with large data sets, thinks about cost/performance tradeoffs

  • Drawn to an early-stage, high-growth startup environment with less stability and more ambiguity.

  • [Bonus] Experience in crypto or financial systems.

Sample projects you might work on
  • Scale our data ingestion platform to handle millions of transactions efficiently

  • Leverage AI technologies to automate our integration workflows

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

  • 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 $210,000 - $240,000. 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
HTML
Kafka
Postgres
Python
React
React Native
Redis
Spark
Styled-Components
Terraform
Typescript

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