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
You’ll join our tight-knit, early-stage team, where you’ll solve interesting technical challenges and shape the direction of the product. We’re at a pivotal moment as a company as we scale our existing products and explore new verticals. As an early engineer on the team, you’ll work across the stack and collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders to own key product and engineering initiatives.
What you will do
- Collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering to shape roadmap priorities, define great user experiences, and drive product direction
- Work full-stack to own features end-to-end - from early exploration and prototyping to implementation, launch, and ongoing iteration
- Build scalable, high-quality systems while solving complex technical challenges in performance, architecture, and reliability
- Continuously improve our codebase, infrastructure, and development practices - balancing speed with quality through well-tested code and thoughtful trade-offs
- Contribute to technical leadership by driving architectural decisions, shaping engineering standards, and helping grow the team through interviewing and improving the hiring process
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
- 5+ 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.
- [Bonus] Prior experience building 0 → 1 products and engineering systems.
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
- Thrive working autonomously and collaboratively
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
- New 0 --> 1 stablecoin product
Some of the challenges we’re tackling
- Scale and performance — processing billions of data points and supporting users with millions of transactions efficiently
- Complex logic — building systems for transfer detection, cost basis tracking, and tax optimization using solid algorithmic foundations
- Blockchain integration — working with raw blockchain data, xPubs, smart contracts, and running our own nodes to support a wide range of assets and protocols
- System complexity — integrating with hundreds of exchanges and wallets while maintaining accuracy, reliability, and observability
- Product discovery — identifying user needs, exploring use cases, and iterating quickly to find product-market fit and deliver real value
Our tech stack is
- Web: HTML, Typescript, React, React Native, TailwindCSS
- Mobile: React Native, Expo, GraphQL
- Backend: Python, Flask, GraphQL, Postgres, Redis, Python RQ, Temporal
- 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 $175,000 - $210,000 USD. Candidate's location does not impact the posted salary range. 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.
