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 starting salary for this position is between $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.