Cointracker

Staff Backend Engineer, Integrations Core

United States

Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Cryptocurrency, Financial TechnologyIndustries

Job Description

Employment Type: Full-Time Location Type: Remote Salary: Not Specified


Position 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.


About CoinTracker

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.


Responsibilities

  • 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.

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: Not Specified

Skills

Backend architecture
System scaling
Data processing pipelines
Distributed systems
API design
Performance optimization
Reliability engineering
Cross-functional collaboration
Mentoring engineering teams

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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