Senior Platform Engineer

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Position Overview

At Shakepay, we’re on a mission to usher in the Bitcoin golden age by reimagining financial services to give every Canadian their fair shake. Our culture is built around doing work that matters, winning as a team, and celebrating success. If you value growth, shipping fast, and sharing your ideas openly, come and build with us!

About Shakepay

Since 2015, Shakepay has been building an app to make buying and earning bitcoin fast, easy, and secure. In 2022, we launched the Shakepay Card, allowing users to earn bitcoin rewards when they shop. Today, more than one million Canadians use Shakepay to grow their bitcoin savings and take control of their financial future. We are regulated across all Canadian provinces and territories, backed by renowned venture capitalists with $44M in funding, and have a passionate, loyal, and growing community.

About the Platform Team

The Platform Team empowers other engineering teams by providing the tools and practices they need to be autonomous. Our team's mission and responsibilities include:

• 🚀 Developer Enablement: Build and own internal tools and platforms that improve engineering efficiency, streamline workflows, and reduce friction in the development process.
• 🌐 Scalability & Architecture: Design and evolve the architecture of our monolith, introduce domain-driven design, and implement layered approaches to improve maintainability.
• 🔧 Internal Tooling & Infrastructure: Support and optimize our internal tools (like Retool) and ensure our developer ecosystem is well-supported.
• 🤖 Quality, Automation & Observability: Automate workflows, improve observability, and embed quality into the development lifecycle.

We are in the early stages of organizing our monolith into structured domains and introducing a more layered architecture. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping our backend architecture, improving developer experience, and scaling our internal tooling. This is a hands-on role where you will build tools, lead architectural improvements, and work closely with engineers across teams to eliminate friction, improve reliability, and drive scalability.

Responsibilities

• Shape the architecture of our monolith, introducing domain-driven design and a layered approach to improve modularity and maintainability.
• Develop internal tools that enhance developer experience, including supporting and optimizing Retool and other engineering workflows.
• Mentor engineers on improving their development workflows, tooling, and best practices.
• Lead automation efforts to reduce manual toil, streamline CI/CD pipelines, and improve developer productivity.
• Measure and improve DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, MTTR) to drive engineering excellence.
• Work closely with engineers to identify pain points in the development process and deliver impactful improvements.
• Participate in the on-call rotation to ensure platform reliability and maintain a sustainable on-call experience.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a Developer Experience (DevEx), Platform, or DevOps role, with a proven track record of delivering impactful improvements.
• Deep understanding of system architecture, infrastructure, and developer workflows, with experience optimizing monolithic applications and supporting internal tools.
• Strong proficiency with automation and scripting languages (e.g., Bash, TypeScript, YAML) and experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Expertise in GitOps, infrastructure as code (IaC) tools, and developer tooling (e.g., build systems, code quality tools, IDE integrations).
• Passion for improving developer efficiency and driving measurable business outcomes through technical excellence.

Bonus Points

• Experience with technologies like Kubernetes, SQS, Datadog, AWS Cloud.

Application Instructions

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Company Information

At Shakepay, we’re on a mission to usher in the Bitcoin golden age. We’re reimagining financial services to give every Canadian their fair shake. Our culture is built around doing work that matters, winning as a team, and celebrating success. If you value growth, shipping fast, and sharing your ideas openly with a group of like-minded people, come and build with us!