CoinTracker
Blockchain

Backend Engineer – CoinTracker

Full-time
Mid-Level
February 25, 2023

CoinTracker

Track your crypto portfolio and taxes


CoinTracker makes cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and tax compliance simple. Beyond cryptocurrency, we are building a general automated financial assistant for all financial assets. Our mission is to increase the financial freedom and prosperity of the world.

Some things weโ€™re proud of:

๐Ÿ“ˆ 3% of all global cryptocurrency assets are tracked on CoinTracker ($50B daily)

๐Ÿ’ฒ Profitable

๐Ÿค Partnered with Coinbase, TurboTax, OpenSea, and other industry leaders

๐Ÿ’ผ Venture-backed by Accel, Y Combinator, and other top investors

๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ Founders: Jon previously built TextNow (200M downloads), Chandan was previously a product manager at Google

Learn more about our mission, culture, and hiring process.

Your opportunity

Join our tight-knit early-stage distributed team that thrives on interesting technical challenges and building magical products that improve people’s lives. As an early engineer on the team, you will work on scaling our backend systems and directly own top-level product and engineering objectives.

You will

  • 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
  • Evolve our technical architecture, infrastructure, code quality, tools, and culture to continually step up the quality and speed of our engineering systems
  • Help interview new engineers

You may enjoy this role if you

  • Love building great products and engineering systems
  • Have strong CS fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, system design, and distributed systems
  • Write high-quality code, value software testing, and uphold best practices in engineering, security, and design
  • Enjoy designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services
  • Have experience scaling the architecture of a startup to a mid-size company

Sample projects you might work on

  • Implement real-time transaction synchronization with blockchains and exchanges
  • Develop a smart order routing platform to enable cryptocurrency trading across exchanges, taking into account full transaction history, tax lots, fee detection, arbitrage, and slippage
  • Implement tax-loss harvesting to reduce capital gains taxes for cryptocurrency users

What’s it like working at CoinTracker?

We are a fully internationally distributed, tight-knit team. We have minimal process, and the majority of our time is spent working and collaborating asynchronously through tools like Figma, Github, Google Meet, Linear, Notion, Slack, Zendesk. We also stay aligned and bonded through weekly sprints, standups, all hands, and socials. We aim to empower every individual on the team with full transparency, ownership, autonomy, and clear objectives. Learn more about our guiding principles.

If this sounds exciting, we’d love to hear from you! Not sure youโ€™re a perfect fit? Reach out anyway. Weโ€™re looking for awesome individuals, not folks who perfectly match a job posting.

Job locations: Remote


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