CoinTracker

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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. Build and optimize Temporal-based workflows to orchestrate ingestion, transformation, and persistence at scale. Our engineering process includes Code reviews Continuous integration Multiple daily automated deployments to production Automated testing with >85% code coverage Some of the technical challenges we face are Lots of data — billions of data points to track transactions and market pair prices Data structures & algorithms — automated transfer detection, cost basis tracking, tax optimization, and more. Your CS fundamentals finally come in handy! Scalability — some cryptocurrency users, such as algorithmic traders, accumulate millions of transactions per year. CoinTracker needs to work seamlessly for those power crypto traders. Blockchain — whether it's running our own nodes, implementing xPub address generation and traversal, or parsing smart contracts to seamlessly support decentralized trading, we get our hands dirty with core blockchain technology Technical complexity — integrating with hundreds of exchanges and blockchains and supporting thousands of cryptocurrencies means we have to methodically architect our software and build critical monitoring systems to deliver a robust and accurate platform Product challenges — building a consumer finance product that works flawlessly for our global user base and through our partner integrations with top crypto exchanges, marketplaces, and tax-filing software Our tech stack is Web: HTML, Typescript, React, React Native, Styled-Components Mobile: React Native, Expo, GraphQL Backend: Python, Flask, GraphQL, Postgres, BigTable, 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.