Staff Backend Engineer

Location Type: Remote Employment Type: Full-Time

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, 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.

This role is for our new Enterprise product - this is a 0-1 initiative with a small, focused team. We’ve already signed initial customers and are seeing strong early traction. You’ll help define core features, lay the technical foundation, and collaborate closely with leadership. It’s a pivotal moment for CoinTracker as we expand from a single-product company to a multi-product platform - and you’ll play a central role in our next chapter.

What You Will Do

• Architect backend systems, including to serve as the foundation of a new 0-1 product.
• Lead and drive critical technical projects, making high-impact decisions that shape the product and ensure long-term maintainability and performance.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, and other teams to align technical execution with early-stage product goals and customer feedback.
• Mentor and guide engineers, fostering technical excellence and best practices across the team.
• Continuously improve system performance, observability, and maintainability to support rapid iteration.
• Take ownership in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment, balancing speed with technical rigor in service of early customer needs.

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:

• 8+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Strong CS fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, system design, and performance optimization.
• Proven experience building and scaling products through rapid growth phases.
• Track record of technical leadership, leading complex projects, mentoring engineers, and setting engineering standards.
• Experience with large-scale data ingestion and processing systems.
• Drawn to an early-stage, high-growth startup environment.
• Fluent in Python.

[Bonus] Experience in crypto or financial systems.

Sample Projects You Might Work On

• 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 de