Staff Software Engineer - Shakepay

At Shakepay, we’re on a mission to usher in the Bitcoin golden age. We’re reimagining financial services to give every Canadian their fair shake.

Our culture is built around doing work that matters, winning as a team, and celebrating success. If you're the kind of person who values growth, shipping fast, and sharing your ideas openly with a group of like-minded people, come and build with us!

About Shakepay

Since 2015, we’ve been building the Shakepay app to make buying and earning bitcoin fast, easy, and secure. In 2022, we launched the Shakepay Card, allowing shakers to earn bitcoin rewards when they shop. Today, more than one million Canadians use Shakepay to grow their bitcoin savings and take control of their financial future.

We’re regulated across all Canadian provinces and territories, and backed by renowned venture capitalists with a funding of $44M. We have a passionate, loyal, and growing community, and we’re looking for people who want to help us build something truly special.

About the Role

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will work on product and platform systems that move real money and impact millions of users. You will collaborate closely with Product, Design, and other engineers to define problems, design solutions, and deliver them to production. You will be expected to operate with a high degree of ownership and judgment, from early design through launch and long-term reliability.

In This Role, You Will:

• Take ambiguous, high-impact problems and drive them from idea to production.
• Partner closely with Product and Design to define scope, trade-offs, and execution plans.
• Design, build, and evolve production systems with a strong focus on reliability, correctness, and maintainability.
• Balance speed and quality, knowing when to move fast and when to slow down.
• Share ownership of the systems you build, including on-call responsibilities and incident response.
• Contribute to technical and product decisions that shape the direction of your team.
• Help raise the bar for how the team builds by improving standards, tooling, and processes.

You Likely Bring:

• Strong product and customer judgment. You care about what is being built and why.
• Proven ownership of features or systems running in production, including reliability and on-call responsibility.
• Comfort working through ambiguity and making thoughtful trade-offs with incomplete information.
• A steady desire to improve your craft and the systems around you.
• Curiosity, pragmatism, and a bias for action.
• Active use of AI tools in your day-to-day workflow to accelerate development, debugging, and learning.
• Comfort reading legacy code and not immediately rewriting it all.

Technical Experience:

• Backend development using Node.js and TypeScript
• Relational databases such as Postgres
• Operating production systems with observability and monitoring (e.g. Datadog)
• Working in containerized or cloud-based environments
• Comfort reviewing AI-generated PRs with the same skepticism you’d apply to a human PR

Nice to Have:

• Mobile development with React Native
• Experience building financial, payments, or crypto-related systems
• Experience in high-growth or fast-moving product environments

Perks and Benefits:

• Generous AI token budget (currently unlimited)
• Stock options as part of total compensation
• Full health and dental benefits starting on Day 1, including a separate mental health budget
• Remote-friendly: Work from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to offices in Montreal and Toronto
• $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and career growth training
• 20 days of vacation per year (plus a $1,000 bonus if you use all your vacation)
• Parental leave top-up to 100% of your salary for 18 weeks
• Quarterly team or company-wide offsites