Staff Backend Engineer

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USA
Annual salary, USD
210,000 - 240,000
Job type
Full Time,
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31 May 2025
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About CoinTracker

Cryptocurrency portfolio assistant. Seamlessly track your portfolio, investments, taxes and more.

Actively Hiring
4.9 Rated

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
  • 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.
  • 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 and computation platform to handle millions of transactions efficiently
  • 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 deliver accurate, compliant tax reports for users

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
  • 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!

The startingΒ salaryΒ for this position is betweenΒ $210,000 – $240,000. The actual compensation offered will be based on a variety of job-related factors including relevant skills, education, and experience. This position also includes equity in CoinTracker and benefits like medical, dental, vision, 401(k), life insurance, and PTO.

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CoinTracker is hiring a remote Staff Backend Engineer from πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ USA

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This is a Full Time role.

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