Product Engineer (Full Stack)

hireVouch; Ottawa; Remote; CAD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A cryptocurrency tech firm in Ontario is looking for a software engineer to join their early-stage team. You will tackle complex technical challenges, shape product direction, and own features from concept to launch. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience, strong CS fundamentals, and a collaborative spirit. Enjoy the opportunity to work on innovative projects in a dynamic, remote setting.

Qualifications

• 5 years of software development experience as an IC.
• Strong CS fundamentals including algorithms and data structures.
• Startup mindset: resourceful, adaptable, and not afraid of ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across Product Design and Engineering.
• Work full-stack to own features end-to-end.
• Build scalable high-quality systems.

Skills

Software development experience

Strong CS fundamentals

High-quality code writing

Adaptability

Communication skills

Tools

HTML

TypeScript

Python

React

GraphQL

Job description

Overview

We make cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and tax compliance software 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.

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
• 5 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 were 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