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 Platform Team
Our platform team empowers other engineering teams by providing the tools and practices they need to be autonomous.
Our team’s mission and responsibilities are:
🚀 Developer Enablement – Build and own tools that remove friction from the development process, boosting engineering efficiency and making it easy to ship high-quality code.
🌐 Scalability & Architecture – Shape the future of our monolith by driving domain-driven design, layered architecture, and long-term system evolution.
🔧 Internal Tooling & Infrastructure – Own and optimise developer tools like Retool, ensuring our internal platforms are robust and scalable.
🤖 Quality, Automation & Observability – Improve observability, automate workflows, and embed operational excellence into everything we do.
Shakepay is scaling, and so is our engineering complexity. We are re-architecting our monolithic codebase, defining domain boundaries, and laying the foundation for our next growth phase.
As a Staff Platform Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping developer experience, architecture, and automation across Shakepay’s engineering teams. You’ll have the autonomy to define technical strategy, lead high-impact initiatives, and mentor engineers—while staying hands-on in building the future of Shakepay’s platform.
What you’ll be doing
- Architect and lead large-scale technical initiatives to optimise Shakepay’s monolith, introducing domain-driven design, modularity, and scalability.
- Design and implement foundational tools that streamline development workflows and enable engineers to confidently move fast.
- Lead automation efforts to reduce friction in CI/CD, deployments, and operational tasks, improving developer productivity and reliability.
- Mentor and coach engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and collaboration.
- Define and track engineering KPIs (DORA metrics, MTTR, developer satisfaction) to measure and drive continuous improvement.
- Participate in the on-call rotation and lead efforts to ensure sustainable incident response practices.
Who we’re looking for
- 8+ years of hands-on software development experience in a Developer Experience, Platform, or DevOps role.
- Proven ability to design and implement developer tooling, automation frameworks, and internal platforms that improve engineering velocity.
- Deep architectural knowledge of CI/CD, GitOps, infrastructure as code (IaC), and modern developer workflows—emphasising writing high-quality code.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to work across the stack (e.g., backend services, build systems, IDE integrations).
- Experience with incident management and on-call rotations, ensuring a culture of operational excellence and reliability.
- Passion for removing friction in the development process and writing code that enables other engineers to ship faster and more confidently.
Bonus points
- Experience with technologies like Kubernetes, SQS, Datadog, AWS Cloud (Aurora, EKS, VPC, Lambdas), PostgreSQL, Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm, and Node.js.
- Background in building FinTech infrastructure or understanding the unique challenges in this space.
- Passion for improving internal developer documentation and knowledge sharing.
- Familiarity with Bitcoin and excitement to learn more.
- A curated folder of Safe-for-Work reaction memes to keep the team laughing.
Why join
- Help shape the future of money: Be part of a team revolutionizing financial services in Canada, one sat at a time.
- Impact millions: As cryptocurrency continues gaining traction, our growth potential is massive. You can help us bring Shakepay and Bitcoin to all Canadians.
- Grow your career: We’re growing, and so can you! We have programs encouraging continuous learning, growth, and development.
- Ideas, not titles: We want the best ideas to be heard, no matter where they come from.
Perks and benefits
- Competitive compensation and stock options: Get rewarded with competitive pay and join our employee stock option plan.
- Health benefits from day 1: Access to comprehensive health and dental coverage, including health and wellness spending accounts.
- Remote-friendly: Work from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to our office spaces in Montreal and Toronto.
- Learning and development: A $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training to support your career growth.
- Time off: 20 days of vacation per year. And if you use all your vacation, we give you a $1,000 bonus.
- Parental leave: Enjoy a parental leave top up to 100% of your salary for 18 weeks.
- Home office setup: A MacBook, a $1,200 budget for home office improvements, and a monthly stipend for home and internet expenses.
- Salary in bitcoin option: Choose to receive your salary in bitcoin – the soundest money to ever exist.
- Team and company offsites: Whether team-specific or company-wide, these events offer a great chance to connect and collaborate in person.
We understand that potential can be just as valuable as experience. If you're eager to learn, grow, and contribute to the mission but worry that you may not have the “right” experience, we still want you to apply.
We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background and life experience. We’re firm believers that a little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept.
Fluency in English is required due to the percentage of English-speaking customers and the nature of our platform, which is available to all Canadians.
