CoinTracker

The gold standard in cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and taxes

Backend Engineer (Remote)

$125K - $300K
Location
Remote (US)
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
3+ years
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About the role

CoinTracker makes cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and tax compliance simple. Our mission is to increase the financial freedom and prosperity of the world.

Some things we’re proud of:

🛠️ Building foundational tools in the cryptocurrency space

📈 Strong growth trajectory

💲 $50B+ in cryptocurrency is tracked on CoinTracker – over 5% of the entire crypto market

🤝 Partnered with Coinbase, Uniswap, OpenSea, eToro, H&R Block and other industry leaders

🗺️ 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

Some of the skills we’re excited about

  • 5+ 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

  • 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

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

  • Product challenges  — building a consumer finance product that works flawlessly for our global user base and through our partner integrations with top crypto exchanges, marketplaces and tax-filing software

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

I- nfrastructure: GCP, Terraform, PostgreSQL, Docker, Pub/Sub, Datadog, PagerDuty

You don’t need to know any or all of these, but be willing to learn!

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 you’re a perfect fit? Reach out anyway. We’re looking for awesome individuals, not folks who perfectly match a job posting.

About CoinTracker

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Overview

CoinTracker is a portfolio assistant for cryptocurrency. Used by over 1 million cryptocurrency holders with over $50 Billion in crypto assets on exchanges, it enables consumers and businesses to seamlessly track their cryptocurrency portfolio, investment performance, taxes, and more. 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 individuals and companies.

Some things we’re proud of:

💲 Over $50B in crypto assets are tracked on CoinTracker

📈 Profitable and growing rapidly

🤝 Partnered with Coinbase, TurboTax, H&R Block, OpenSea, Wolters Kluwer, and other industry leaders

💼 $100M Series A from Accel, Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, 776 Ventures, Serena Williams, and more

🗺️ Founders: Jon and Chandan previously built TextNow (scaled to 200 million downloads) and worked at Google[x] & Google

CoinTracker
Founded:2017
Team Size:100
Location:San Francisco
Founders
Jon Lerner
Jon Lerner
Founder
Chandan Lodha
Chandan Lodha
Founder