Backend Engineer, Senior (Crypto)

Overview

We make a cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and tax compliance simple. Our software 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.

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

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: Python, Flask, GraphQL, Postgres, BigTable, Redis, Python RQ, Temporal

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!