Staff Backend Engineer, Integrations

Job Description

Employment Type: Full-Time Location Type: Remote

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 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, 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 (e.g., 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: [Information truncated]