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 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 across the stack and directly own top-level product and engineering objectives.
What you will do
- Build new features and products
- Work across the engineering stack, including backend, web, and mobile
- 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
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
- 3+ years of software development experience as an IC.
- 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.
- Have a startup mindset: you’re resourceful, adaptable, and not afraid of ambiguity.
- Enjoy learning new tools, technologies, and methodologies to stay at the cutting edge.
- Able to work effectively in a remote setting and able to overlap with our core hours of 9 AM to 12 PM PT.
Sample projects you might work on
- Build a DeFi intelligence product that informs users where to make the most return for staking their crypto
- Create the best crypto accounting product
- Implement tax-loss harvesting to reduce capital gains taxes for cryptocurrency users
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, TailwindCSS
- 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 $146,000 - $210,000. 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.
