Staff Backend Engineer, CoinTracker
$210-240k
+ Equity
Crypto portfolio tracking & taxes
Open for applications
Crypto portfolio tracking & taxes
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$210-240k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To increase the world's financial freedom and prosperity.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Overview
- Application
- 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. Learn more about our mission, culture, and hiring process
- 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
- What you will do
- What we look for
- Role-agnostic
- 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
- Our engineering process includes
- 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!
Our take
Managing taxes for crypto investments can be a difficult task, and with tax regulations and trading practices developing fast in this market, a tool to help manage them is vital. CoinTracker’s crypto management software provides just this; tracking and synching up to 200 transactions across different wallets to a single dashboard, and automatically populating tax forms.
Though there are rivals in the space (such as Coinpanda and Koinly), CoinTracker stands out for the sheer volume of transactions it can track, as well as its prioritisation of ease-of-use. Through this approach, it makes the whole process far more compliant and hassle-free for crypto traders, especially serving those who are less educated regarding the space.
By balancing tax management tools with its relatively generous free plan, CoinTracker has straddled itself neatly across low-volume retail investors and those dipping their toes in a little deeper. Although it had to make a round of layoffs in 2023, the company has nonetheless progressed. It released CoinTracker Connect, which gives access to live professionals for real-time crypto tax advice, and has also undertaken a multichain expansion.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2022
$100m
SERIES A
Apr 2018
$1.5m
SEED
Total funding: $101.7m
Company benefits
- Join a startup with a breakout trajectory
- Rapidly learn in a fast-paced, extremely high-growth environment
- Work with a world-class team formerly from top companies
- Join us globally as part of a fully distributed team
- Geo-agnostic compensation
- Work in an environment with high trust, transparency, and autonomy
- Tackle challenging technical & business problems
- Help shape the future of finance
- No meetings on Wednesdays (#Flow)
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Chandan Lodha
(Co-founder)Previously a Product Manager at Google.
Jon Lerner
(Co-founder & CEO)A former Software Engineer at Apple and Google. Went on to co-found and serve as CTO and Board Member at TextNow.
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