Senior Platform Engineer - Developer Experience and Internal Tooling

At Shakepay, we’re on a mission to usher in the Bitcoin golden age. We’re reimagining financial services to give every Canadian their fair shake.

Our culture is built around doing work that matters, winning as a team, and celebrating success. If you value growth, shipping fast, and sharing your ideas openly with a group of like-minded people, come and build with us!

About Shakepay

Since 2015, we’ve been building the Shakepay app to make buying and earning bitcoin fast, easy, and secure. In 2022, we launched the Shakepay Card, allowing shakers to earn bitcoin rewards when they shop. Today, more than one million Canadians use Shakepay to grow their bitcoin savings and take control of their financial future. 

We’re regulated across all Canadian provinces and territories, and backed by renowned venture capitalists with a funding of $44M. We have a passionate, loyal, and growing community, and we’re looking for people who want to help us build something truly special. 

About the Platform Team

Our platform team empowers other engineering teams by providing the tools and practices they need to be autonomous.

Our team’s mission and responsibilities are:

🚀 Developer Enablement – Build and own internal tools and platforms that improve engineering efficiency, streamline workflows, and reduce friction in the development process.

🌐 Scalability & Architecture – Design and evolve the architecture of our monolith, introduce domain-driven design, and implement layered approaches to improve maintainability.

🔧 Internal Tooling & Infrastructure – Support and optimize our internal tools (like Retool) and ensure our developer ecosystem is well-supported.

🤖 Quality, Automation & Observability – Automate workflows, improve observability, and embed quality into the development lifecycle.

We’re in the early days of organizing our monolith into structured domains and introducing a more layered architecture. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you’ll play a key role in shaping our backend architecture, improving developer experience, and scaling our internal tooling.

This is a hands-on role where you’ll build tools, lead architectural improvements, and work closely with engineers across teams to eliminate friction, improve reliability, and drive scalability.

What you’ll be doing 

• Shape the architecture of our monolith, introducing domain-driven design and a layered approach to improve modularity and maintainability.
• Develop internal tools that enhance developer experience, including supporting and optimizing Retool and other engineering workflows.
• Mentor engineers on improving their development workflows, tooling, and best practices.
• Lead automation efforts to reduce manual toil, streamline CI/CD pipelines, and improve developer productivity.
• Measure and improve DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, MTTR) to drive engineering excellence.
• Work closely with engineers to identify pain points in the development process and deliver impactful improvements.
• Participate in the on-call rotation to ensure platform reliability and maintain a sustainable on-call experience.

Who we’re looking for

• 5+ years of experience in a Developer Experience (DevEx), Platform, or DevOps role, with a proven track record of delivering impactful improvements.
• Deep understanding of system architecture, infrastructure, and developer workflows, with experience optimizing monolithic applications and supporting internal tools.
• Strong proficiency with automation and scripting languages (e.g., Bash, TypeScript, YAML) and experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Expertise in GitOps, infrastructure as code (IaC) tools, and developer tooling (e.g., build systems, code quality tools, IDE integrations).
• Passion for improving developer efficiency and driving measurable business outcomes through technical excellence.

Bonus points

• Experience with technologies like Kubernetes, SQS, Datadog, AWS Cloud (Aurora, EKS, VPC, Lambdas), PostgreSQL, Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm, and Node.js.
• Background in building FinTech infrastructure or understanding the unique challenges in this space.
• Passion for improving internal developer documentation and knowledge sharing.
• Familiarity with Bitcoin and excitement to learn more.
• A curated folder of Safe-for-Work reaction memes to keep the team laughing.

Why join

• Help shape the future of money: Be part of a team revolutionizing financial services in Canada, one sat at a time.
• Impact millions: As cryptocurrency continues gaining traction, our growth potential is massive. You can help us bring Shakepay and Bitcoin to all Canadians.
• Grow your career: We’re growing, and so can you! We have programs encouraging continuous learning, growth, and development.
• Ideas, not titles: We want the best ideas to be heard, no matter where they come from.

Perks and benefits

• Competitive compensation and stock options: Get rewarded with competitive pay and join our employee stock option plan.
• Health benefits from day 1: Access to comprehensive health and dental coverage, including health and wellness spending accounts. 
• Remote-friendly: Work from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to our office spaces in Montreal and Toronto.
• Learning and development: A $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training to support your career growth.
• Time off: We offer 20 days of vacation per year. If you use all your vacation, we will give you a $1,000 bonus.
• Parental leave: Enjoy a parental leave top up to 100% of your salary for 18 weeks.
• Home office setup: A MacBook, a $1,200 budget for home office improvements, and a monthly stipend for home and internet expenses.
• Salary in bitcoin option: Choose to receive your compensation in bitcoin – the soundest money ever to exist.
• Team and company offsites: Whether team-specific or company-wide, these events offer a great chance to connect and collaborate in person.

We understand that potential can be just as valuable as experience. If you're eager to learn, grow, and contribute to the mission but worry that you may not have the “right” experience, we still want you to apply.

We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background and life experience. We’re firm believers that a little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept.

Fluency in English is required due to the percentage of English-speaking customers and the nature of our platform, which is available to all Canadians.