Senior Backend Engineer, Data (United States & Canada)

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

• 💲 $250B+ 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 close-knit, early-stage distributed team, where we tackle exciting technical challenges and create transformative crypto products that give people peace of mind. As one of the engineers, you'll play a key role in scaling our backend systems and take direct ownership of high-impact product and engineering goals.

What you will do

• Build new features, products, integrations, and back-end services

• Design scalable systems to support millions of users

• Own and deliver top-level product and engineering objectives

• Collaborate with team members across the company

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

• Strong backend engineer with 5+ years of professional experience (excluding internships), including 3+ years hands-on in the data engineering space. Skilled in Python (with strong coding & algorithmic skills), SQL. Familiar with Temporal (our workflow orchestrator) or similar systems.

• Knowledge of ETL/ELT and data warehousing concepts, understanding of stream/batch hybrids, CDC patterns and modern data orchestration. Familiarity with modern table formats such as Iceberg, Delta Lake, Apache Hudi etc . Understanding of big data frameworks (Spark, Flink, Beam etc) is a plus. Knowledge of Snowflake and GCP strongly preferred but ok if you are familiar with similar technologies.

• Serve as a data engineering SME within the team: introduce best practices, review designs, and raise the technical bar.

• Proven experience designing and scaling distributed production systems ideally in high-growth or startup environments. Experience working in crypto is a plus.

Comfortable working remotely, with the ability to overlap with core hours (9 AM – 12 PM PT / 12 – 3 PM ET).

Sample projects you might work on

• Scale our data ingestion platform to handle millions of blockchain and exchange transactions efficiently via different data sources. Introduce new data modeling and lakehouse strategies to support real-time and batch use cases.

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