Product Engineer

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Join a tight-knit, early-stage team to shape product direction and solve complex technical challenges while developing foundational tools in the cryptocurrency space.

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

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.

  • This is a fullstack position, but we're open to frontend leaning or backend leaning candidates! Let us know which you are in the application form

  • 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 delivering user impact; you want to question the "why" of what you're building

  • Believe in a culture of collaboration, where you'll work with a close-knit, supportive team

  • Are ready to take ownership, be highly engaged, and work in a dynamic role where you'll wear many hats

Sample projects you might work on

  • Implement a tax-loss harvesting feature that smartly recommends opportunities for capital losses to save users from paying unnecessary taxes

  • Create the best crypto accounting subledger, with a complex rules engine that automatically categories journal entries

  • Build out a crypto portfolio tracker that supports seeing your staking rewardscy 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 - $175,000 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.

Salary
$146,000 – $175,000 per year
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