Strict No Jerks Policy

After growing beyond a handful of people we noticed that we had somehow managed to not bring in any jerks and recognized how lucky we were to have managed this. It’s now our official policy. We love confidence, but we don’t have time to babysit anyone’s ego.

Seasoned Crypto Perspectives

Some of us have been in the cryptocurrency space for more than a decade now. We’ve been through blockchain forks and price crashes and watched shitcoins come and go. Bitaccess is not interested in chasing fads or get-rich-quick schemes. We are building non-custodial off-ramps from fiat to give people the choice.

Remote Working and Geographically Diverse Team

Headquartered in Canada, we have employees across the country as well as in Europe, Africa, the Philippines, and more. We come from a variety of backgrounds, cultures, and ways of living, and we know that this diversity makes us better at what we do.

Opportunity for Impact

Our development teams are small and close-knit. There’s ample opportunity to work independently if that’s how you work best, but your teammates are always there to bounce ideas off and get help from.

Exciting Times Ahead

Forget crypto winter, it’s always been irrelevant to our business. Stay humble, stack sats, and come join Bitaccess.

Requirements

What do we build on?

We build all our services on Node.js. We have a number of older Javascript services built with Express and our current standard for new development is TypeScript and NestJS. For databases, MongoDB, Postgres, and Google Datastore are in use. Our current cloud provider is Heroku but we are actively migrating to Google Cloud Platform.

How do we organize ourselves and the work we do?

We strive to have small, closely-knit teams that work together on products and services. We break work down into two-week sprints that are aligned across teams and use retrospectives to continuously evaluate and improve our processes.

What do we build with?

The software team uses company-issued MacBook Pros. We collaborate using Github, Notion, and Slack. We use Jira for task management, but we don’t let it consume our lives. Most of the team is using Visual Studio Code but there are a handful of Vim diehards.

What are our biggest challenges?

One of our current challenges is addressing the technical debt we’ve accumulated during years of the small-startup lifestyle. We do this by prioritizing tech debt reduction, rewriting from scratch when appropriate, and generally attempting to leave the campground cleaner than we found it. As we continue to transition from a handful of developers to a larger team, our process is maturing and we have a greater emphasis on code quality and maintainability, test coverage, and teamwork. By growing the team we are able to move away from the problems inherent in having individual developers responsible for significant components of the system. Other challenges include addressing scaling issues, modernizing inter-service communication, and of course, delivering on feature requests in a timely fashion.

What kind of developer are we looking for?

In addition to solid knowledge of and experience with the tools and platforms we use, we value communication skills, friendliness, empathy, and enthusiasm for software development. We want developers who have ‘seen some shit’ — made some big mistakes and learned from them. People who know from experience what software development is really like and yet somehow keep coming back for more. People who, through their wisdom, experience, development skills, and reassuring optimism, will make a major contribution to our lives at Bitaccess and make us wonder how we ever managed without them.

What should my application include?

Please write us a short (or long, if you like) cover letter telling us about yourself, your career, and why you think Bitaccess might be a great fit for you. Tell us why you love developing software, what challenges excite you, and what you think of the cryptocurrency space. What kind of job are you looking for, what would your ideal work week be like? What kind of people do you work best with? Beyond the cover letter, we love to look at code, so if you have an examples you can freely share, please point us to them.

What are our interviews like?

We don’t believe in coding tests or trick questions or putting people on the spot to solve problems under pressure. We want to learn about you and understand how you work with others to solve problems. We love it if you can walk us through something you’ve built (with the code if you can share it) and explain your design decisions and describe how you overcame challenges while building it, the parts you are proud of and the parts that still suck. We want to try to give you as clear a picture of what life at Bitaccess is like to help you feel confident it’s what you’re looking for. We will introduce you to the people you’d be working with and shed some light on the real work you’ll be doing out of the gate.

Benefits

Extended Healthcare Plan (Medical, Disability, Dental & Vision)
Group Life - AD&D - Critical Illness Insurance
Paid Time Off Benefits
RRSP Contributions
Discretionary Bonus
MacBook Pro

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