Backend Engineer at CoinTracker (W18)
$145K - $175K  •  
The gold standard in cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and taxes
CA / US / Remote (CA; US)
Full-time
3+ years
About CoinTracker

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Overview

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) and Chandan was previously a product manager at Google & Google[x]

About the role

Overview

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 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.

What you will do

  • 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
  • Help interview new engineers

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

  • 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 evolving a startup’s architecture to support mid-size company growth
  • 2+ years of software development experience
  • Productive, resourceful, and effective at problem-solving
  • Drawn to an early-stage, high-growth startup environment with less stability and more ambiguity
  • Strong fundamentals with a cloud platform like GCP or AWS
  • Interested in financial products and/or cryptocurrency
  • Able to work effectively in a remote setting and able to overlap with our core hours of 9 AM to 12 PM PT

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!
Technology

Our engineering process includes:

  • Code reviews
  • Continuous integration
  • Multiple daily automated deployments to production
  • Automated testing with >85% code coverage

Some of the technical challenges we face are:

  • Lots of data — billions of data points to track transactions and market pair prices.
  • Data structures & algorithms — automated transfer detection, cost basis tracking, tax optimization, and more. Your CS fundamentals finally come in handy!
  • Scalability — some cryptocurrency users, such as algorithmic traders, accumulate millions of transactions per year. CoinTracker needs to work seamlessly for those power crypto traders.
  • Blockchain — whether it's running our own nodes, implementing xPub address generation and traversal, or parsing smart contracts to seamlessly support decentralized trading, we get our hands dirty with core blockchain technology.
  • Technical complexity — integrating with hundreds of exchanges and blockchains, and supporting thousands of cryptocurrencies means we have to methodically architect our software and build critical monitoring systems to deliver a robust and accurate platform.

Our tech stack is:

  • Web: HTML, Javascript, React, CSS, Sass
  • Mobile: React Native, Expo, GraphQL
  • Backend: Python, Flask, GraphQL, Postgres, Redis, Python RQ
  • Infrastructure: GCP, AWS

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