Backend Engineer
Posted 2025-08-23
Remote, USA
Full Time
Immediate Start
<h2><strong>Overview</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="notion-link-token notion-focusable-token notion-enable-hover" href="https://www.cointracker.io/">CoinTracker</a> 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. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.notion.so/cointracker/CoinTracker-is-Hiring-7308c712493940a3b6e62257d283dad8">Learn more</a> about our mission, culture, and hiring process.</p><h2><strong><br>Some things we’re proud of</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">🛠️ Building foundational tools in the cryptocurrency space</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">📄 Over 1M tax forms generated</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">💲 $80B+ in cryptocurrency is tracked on CoinTracker (~over 5% of the entire crypto market)</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">🤝 Partnered with Coinbase, H&R Block, Intuit TurboTax, MetaMask, OpenSea, Phantom, Solana, and Uniswap</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">🗺️ Founders: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonlerner/">Jon</a> previously built TextNow (200M downloads), <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/clodha/">Chandan</a> was previously a product manager at Google & Google[x]</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">💼 $100M+ venture capital raised from Accel, General Catalyst, Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Kraken Ventures, Intuit Ventures, 776 Ventures, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="notion-link-token notion-focusable-token notion-enable-hover" href="https://twitter.com/balajis">Balaji Srinivasan</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="notion-link-token notion-focusable-token notion-enable-hover" href="https://twitter.com/chughesjohnson">Claire Hughes Johnson</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="notion-link-token notion-focusable-token notion-enable-hover" href="https://twitter.com/gokulr">Gokul Rajaram</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="notion-link-token notion-focusable-token notion-enable-hover" href="https://twitter.com/serenawilliams">Serena Williams</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="notion-link-token notion-focusable-token notion-enable-hover" href="https://twitter.com/zachperret">Zach Perret</a></p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">🌴 Awesome <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.notion.so/cointracker/Benefits-b5db95c6d3224ab1ae3a384048cbaee3">benefits</a></p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>Your mission</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.<br></p><h2><strong>What you will do</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build new features, products, integrations, and back-end services</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Design scalable systems to support millions of users</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own and deliver top-level product and engineering objectives</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Collaborate with team members across the company</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>What we look for</strong></h2><h3>Role-agnostic</h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Impact: Demonstrated ability to drive business impact</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Mission alignment: Hungry and motivated about making progress towards our mission of <em>Enabling everyone in the world to use crypto with peace of mind</em>.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Trust: Say what you believe. Do what you say.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Communication: Able to clearly talk about the details and also zoom out to the bigger picture</p></li></ul><h3>Role-specific</h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Have strong CS fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, system design, and distributed systems</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Write high-quality code, value software testing, and uphold best practices in engineering, security, and design</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Enjoy designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Have experience evolving a startup’s architecture to support mid-size company growth</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">2+ years of software development experience</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Productive, resourceful, and effective at problem-solving</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Drawn to an early-stage, high-growth startup environment with less stability and more ambiguity</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Strong fundamentals with a cloud platform like GCP or AWS</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Interested in financial products and/or cryptocurrency</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Able to work effectively in a remote setting and able to overlap with our core hours of 9 AM to 12 PM PT</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>Sample projects you might work on</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Scale our data ingestion and computation platform to handle millions of transactions efficiently</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build a smart trade insights platform that recommends trades across exchanges, factoring in transaction history, tax lots, fee detection, arbitrage opportunities, and slippage</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Integrate the latest country-specific tax regulations to deliver accurate, compliant tax reports for users</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>Our engineering process includes</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Code reviews</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Continuous integration</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Multiple daily automated deployments to production</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Automated testing with >85% code coverage</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>Our tech stack is</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Web: HTML, Typescript, React, React Native, Styled-Components</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Mobile: React Native, Expo, GraphQL</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Backend: Python, Flask, GraphQL, Postgres, BigTable, Redis, Python RQ</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Infrastructure: GCP, Terraform, PostgreSQL, Docker, Pub/Sub, Datadog, PagerDuty</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You don’t need to know any or all of these, but be willing to learn!</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">The starting salary for this position is between $146,000 - $175,000. 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.</p>