Backend Engineer, Senior (Crypto)

HRB; Canada; Remote; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A crypto technology firm located in Canada is seeking an experienced backend engineer to build features and scalable systems. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in backend engineering, preferably in crypto or finance, and must be able to work effectively in a remote setting. Join us in our mission to make crypto accessible and reliable for everyone.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience in crypto or finance.
• Strong fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, and system design.
• Experience with production system design and scaling.

Responsibilities

• Build new features, products, and back-end services.
• Design scalable systems to support millions of users.
• Collaborate with team members across the company.

Skills

Backend engineering experience

Data engineering knowledge

Strong CS fundamentals

Cloud platform experience (GCP or AWS)

Communication skills

Tools

Python

Flask

Postgres

Docker

Terraform

Job description

Overview

Wemake acryptocurrency portfolio tracking and tax compliance simple.Our softwareenables 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.

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

• 5+ years of professional (non-internship) experience as a backend engineer, preferably in the data engineering or crypto/finance domain. Experience in crypto is strongly preferred.

• Have strong CS fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, system design, and distributed systems. Deep knowledge of backend technologies, including databases, orchestrators, messaging systems, data pipelines, and more.

• Write high-quality code, value software testing, and uphold best practices in engineering, security, and design.

• Experience designing, scaling, and maintaining production systems, ideally within high-growth or early-stage environments. or drawn to high growth stage startups.

• Strong fundamentals with a cloud platform like GCP or AWS

• Able to work effectively in a remote setting and able to overlap with our core hours of 9 AM to 12 PM PT / 12 - 3pm EST

Our engineering process includes

• Code reviews

• Continuous integration

• Multiple daily automated deployments to production

• Automated testing with >85% code coverage

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!