Staff Engineer

Koinly; City Of London; Remote; GBP 75,000 - 88,000; Full time

Job summary

A cryptocurrency tax platform provider is searching for a Staff Engineer to optimize Ruby systems and collaborate with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate should have at least 7 years of backend experience and a passion for remote, asynchronous work. This position offers a salary range of USD $100K-$115K and includes perks like flexible schedules and 32 days of PTO.

Benefits

32 days of PTO

Async culture

Flexible work-schedule

High autonomy and ownership

Qualifications

• 7 years of backend experience with Ruby on Rails at scale.
• Experience influencing cross-team initiatives.
• Strong understanding of data flows.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable backend systems.
• Collaborate with leads to define priorities.
• Mentor other engineers through technical reviews.

Skills

Backend experience with Ruby on Rails

System performance improvement

Software design principles

Clear communication

Ownership mindset

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Postgres

gRPC

Distributed Systems

Job description

Architect the systems that make crypto tax simple and performance effortless

Koinly simplifies crypto taxes for millions of users. Our cryptocurrency tax platform transforms billions of blockchain transactions into accurate financial records through reliable high-performance engineering.

We're hiring a Staff Engineer to join our Engineering team. The mission of this role is to strengthen our Ruby systems by simplifying complexity improving performance and shaping the architecture that keeps financial data precise and fast.

Koinly is a remote-first and async by design with strong product-market fit in a niche (and booming) domain : crypto you thrive on deep technical work and value autonomy clarity and craft youll fit right in.

Apply below to help build the backbone of large-scale financial systems.

Key details in sum

Location : Remote - preference for Europe-based candidates.

Salary : USD $100K-115k / year.

Contract type : Full-time (B2B contractor).

Perks:

• 32 days of PTO.
• Async culture.
• Flexible work-schedule.
• A culture of high autonomy and ownership.

Experience level : 7 years.

Start date : ASAP.

Team size : 10 person engineering team.

Main responsibility : Engineer and optimize high-performance Ruby systems that handle billions of financial transactions solving deep scaling data and code-quality challenges.

Why this role exists

As Koinly scales we need our backend systems to stay fast reliable and accurate. This Staff Engineer will provide hands‑on technical excellence to optimize reliability and simplify complex pipelines as we scale to billions of transactions.

As a Staff Engineer at Koinly youll stay deeply hands‑on while anchoring complex projects guiding technical direction and sharing knowledge that raises the bar for the whole team. We value engineers who think independently stay curious and communicate with clarity. Collaboration here means solving hard problems together giving direct feedback and continuously improving how we build at scale.

What youll do:

• Design and develop scalable backend systems that process billions of financial transactions.
• Provide technical direction across projects and collaborate with product and engineering leads to define priorities and architecture.
• Own project delivery : from design and implementation to performance and reliability in production.
• Refactor and modernize core Ruby systems to improve maintainability readability and speed.
• Mentor other engineers through technical reviews design discussions and clear documentation.

What you bring:

• 7 years of backend experience with Ruby on Rails at scale with at least 2 years as a senior engineer influencing cross-team initiatives.
• Proven record improving system performance and code quality.
• Strong understanding of data flows and software design principles.
• Experience working cross-functionally in async remote environments.
• Clear communication and ownership mindset.

Bonus:

• Experience tuning Postgres in production.
• Built or optimized data ingestion or reconciliation pipelines.
• Open‑source contributions to Ruby Rails or performance tooling.
• Background in fintech taxtech open banking or blockchain systems.

Koinlys engineering culture

Craftsmanship matters : we value deep thinking well‑structured systems and clean code.

Async‑first collaboration : clarity and autonomy come through written communication.

Impact through ownership : engineers drive projects end to end.

Remote : we trust people to work flexibly and deliver excellence from anywhere.

Why join Koinly

Built for builders : A profitable bootstrapped startup in a hyper‑growth industry.

Pure Ruby backend : No language sprawl or over‑engineering.

Autonomy‑first : Async communication deep work minimal meetings.

Massive scale : Billions of trades and 950 integrations.

Small team big impact : Millions of users 37 people company‑wide.

No corporate theatre : Zero bureaucracy high trust high ownership.

Flexible by default : Fully remote async and results‑oriented.

Crypto‑adjacent without the hype : We're a painkiller not a multivitamin.

Join Koinly and design systems of crypto tax at massive scale. Apply today!

Due to the nature of our business and external requirements we perform background checks on all potential team members passing which is a prerequisite to join Koinly.

Key Skills

Computer Science,Docker,Kubernetes,Python,VMware,C / C++,Go,System Architecture,gRPC,OS Kernels,Perl,Distributed Systems

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1