Product Engineer

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. CoinTracker-is-Hiring-7308c712493940a3b6e62257d283dad8">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

• 3+ 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

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 $146,000 - $210,000. 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.

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