Cointracker

Backend Engineer

United States

Not SpecifiedCompensation
Mid-level (3 to 4 years), Senior (5 to 8 years), Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Fintech, Cryptocurrency, SaaSIndustries

Job Description

Employment Type: Full-Time Location Type: Remote Salary: $146,000 - $175,000 (Actual compensation based on skills, education, and experience)


Position Overview

CoinTracker makes cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and tax compliance simple. We enable consumers and businesses to seamlessly track their cryptocurrency portfolio, investment performance, taxes, and more. CoinTracker is a globally distributed team on a mission to enable everyone in the world to use crypto with peace of mind.

Some things we’re proud of:

  • Building foundational tools in the cryptocurrency space.
  • Over 1M tax forms generated.
  • $80B+ in cryptocurrency tracked on CoinTracker (~over 5% of the entire crypto market).
  • Partnerships 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].
  • Raised $100M+ in venture capital 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.


Responsibilities

  • 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:

  • Strong CS fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, system design, and distributed systems.
  • Ability to write high-quality code, value software testing, and uphold best practices in engineering, security, and design.
  • Experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services.
  • Experience evolving a startup’s architecture to support mid-size company growth.
  • 2+ 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.
  • Strong fundamentals with a cloud platform like GCP or AWS.
  • 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.

Sample Projects You Might Work On

  • Scale our data ingestion and computation platform to handle millions of transactions efficiently.
  • Build a smart trade insights platform that recommends trades across exchanges, factoring in transaction history, tax lots, fee detection, arbitrage opportunities, and slippage.
  • Integrate the latest country-specific tax regulations to deliver accurate, compliant tax reports for users.

Engineering Process

Our engineering process includes:

  • Code reviews.
  • Continuous integration.
  • Multiple daily automated deployments to production.
  • Automated testing with >85% code coverage.

Tech Stack

  • 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!)


Application Instructions

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Company Information

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.

Skills

backend development
system design
scalability
API development
cryptocurrency

Cointracker

Cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and tax reporting

About Cointracker

CoinTracker helps individuals and businesses manage their cryptocurrency investments and tax obligations. It offers a portfolio tracking and tax reporting software that allows users to connect their crypto wallets and exchanges, enabling them to monitor their balances, transactions, and investment performance in one place. A key feature is its tax reporting capabilities, which assist users in calculating their cost basis, net fiat invested, and capital gains, simplifying compliance with complex tax regulations. CoinTracker operates on a subscription-based model, providing premium features for a fee while also offering a free tier to attract new users. The goal is to provide essential services for portfolio management and tax compliance in the growing cryptocurrency market.

San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2017Year Founded
$98.8MTotal Funding
SERIES_ACompany Stage
Crypto & Web3, Financial ServicesIndustries
51-200Employees

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Life Insurance
401(k) Retirement Plan
401(k) Company Match
Paid Vacation
Paid Sick Leave

Risks

IRS's Form 1099-DA may impact users valuing privacy, affecting CoinTracker's user base.
A recent security breach could undermine user trust and raise data privacy concerns.
Coinbase's expansion of its subscription model could increase competition for CoinTracker.

Differentiation

CoinTracker offers seamless crypto portfolio tracking and tax compliance in one platform.
Partnerships with Coinbase and TurboTax enhance CoinTracker's credibility and user reach.
CoinTracker's multichain support includes Arbitrum, Optimism, and Cosmos, broadening its user base.

Upsides

Increased demand for DeFi tax solutions due to IRS's new Form 1099-DA requirements.
Partnership with H&R Block positions CoinTracker in the mainstream tax preparation market.
CoinTracker Connect offers real-time crypto tax advice, enhancing user engagement.

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