Staff Backend Engineer

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 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

• 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.

What we look forRole-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

• 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

• 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

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!

The starting salary for this position is between $210,000 - $240,000. 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.