Senior Backend Engineer, Integrations Core

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.

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, 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

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

Our 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!

Compensation

The starting salary for this position is between $175,000 - $210,000. The actual compensation offered will be based on a variety of factors.