About CoinList
CoinList is a leading crypto financial platform supporting the full lifecycle of crypto investment. We offer a comprehensive suite of services, including token sales, trading, lending, staking, and access to DeFi opportunities. CoinList has helped raise over $1.1 billion for groundbreaking projects, establishing itself as the go-to platform for innovative blockchain companies. Our platform is trusted by validators, miners, founders, crypto funds, and a broad array of crypto enthusiasts globally.
The Opportunity
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack, Backend-leaning) to join our Core Team. You’ll play a key role in building and scaling the core financial infrastructure that powers CoinList’s money movement, wallet, and custody solutions, while also owning and improving our web application experience. This is a high-impact role where you’ll ship production systems, shape product direction, and help set technical standards for the team. This role is ideal for a full stack engineer (backend-leaning) who thrives in product-focused environments, cares deeply about UX and frontend polish, and is excited to own both backend infrastructure and web product experiences in a fast-paced fintech startup.
What You’ll Do:
- Design, build, and scale robust financial software systems and backend services that power money movement, custody, and payment flows.
- Develop and maintain web frontends (React, LiveView) with a focus on UX, collaborating closely with designers to deliver polished, user-friendly products.
- Architect and optimize wallet and custody solutions for a variety of cryptocurrencies, ensuring security, reliability, and scalability.
- Own projects end-to-end: From concept and design through implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, compliance, and other engineering teams to deliver secure and delightful financial products.
- Participate in code reviews, share knowledge, and help upskill junior engineers.
- Identify and address performance bottlenecks, reliability gaps, and opportunities for automation.
- Influence product and technical direction, working closely with leadership and crypto founders.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional engineering experience shipping high-quality code in production environments
- Strong coding fundamentals
- Proven experience scaling financial systems (fintech, payments, trading, or crypto/DeFi platforms).
- Security-first mindset and deep understanding of best practices in financial software development.
- Experience with, or open to learning and working with, Elixir and LiveView (backend and frontend).
- Demonstrated experience building and maintaining production web frontends (React, LiveView, or similar).
- Track record of product ownership, attention to detail, and working collaboratively with designers.
Bonus Skills:
- Experience with distributed systems or microservices architecture.
- Prior Elixir experience is a plus but not required-willingness and ability to learn is key.
- Familiarity with blockchain protocols, crypto custody, or staking systems.
- Experience integrating with payment rails, ledgers, or compliance systems.
- Contributions to open-source projects or crypto communities.
- Backend engineering fundamentals with experience in modern languages (Elixir, Ruby, Go, TypeScript, Python, etc.).
Tech stack:
- Elixir (primary), LiveView (frontend), Ruby. Most new development is in Elixir and LiveView.
- Legacy systems in Ruby on Rails and React.
Benefits
$128,000 – $179,000 USD base + significant equity (depending on experience/location)
