Software Engineer - Frontend

About the job

CoinTracker makes cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and tax compliance simple. Our mission is to improve the financial freedom and prosperity of the world.

Some things we’re proud of:

📈 3% of all global cryptocurrency assets are tracked on CoinTracker ($50B daily)

💲 Profitable

🤝 Partnered with Coinbase, TurboTax, OpenSea, and other industry leaders

💼 Venture-backed by Accel, Y Combinator, and other top investors

🗺️ Founders: Jon previously built TextNow (200M downloads), Chandan was previously a product manager at Google

Learn more about our mission, culture, and hiring process: https://www.notion.so/CoinTracker-is-hiring-7308c712493940a3b6e62257d283dad8

Your opportunity:

Join our tight-knit early-stage distributed team that thrives on interesting technical challenges and building magical products that improve people’s lives. As an early engineer on the team, you will work across the stack and directly own top-level product and engineering objectives.

You will:

• Build new features and products
• Work on our web product engineering stack
• Own and deliver on top-level product and engineering objectives
• Collaborate with stakeholders across our Product, Design, Marketing, Partnerships, and Growth
• Evolve our frontend architecture, infrastructure, code quality, tools, and culture to continually step up the quality and speed of our engineering systems
• Help interview new engineers

You may enjoy this role if you:

• Love building great products and user experiences on web
• 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

Some of the skills we’re excited about

• Productive, resourceful, and effective at problem-solving
• Drawn to an early-stage high-growth startup environment with less stability and more ambiguity
• Interested in financial products and/or cryptocurrency
• Able to work effectively in a remote setting and able to overlap with our core hours of 9 AM to 12 PM PT

Some of the technical challenges we face are:

• Lots of data — billions of data points to track transactions and market pair prices
• Data structures & algorithms — automated transfer detection, cost basis tracking, tax optimization, and more. Your CS fundamentals finally come in handy!
• Scalability — some cryptocurrency users, such as algorithmic traders, accumulate millions of transactions per year. CoinTracker needs to work seamlessly for those power crypto traders.
• Blockchain — whether it's running our own nodes, implementing xPub address generation and traversal, or parsing smart contracts to seamlessly support decentralized trading, we get our hands dirty with core blockchain technology
• Technical complexity — integrating with hundreds of exchanges and blockchains, and supporting thousands of cryptocurrencies means we have to methodically architect our software and build critical monitoring systems to deliver a robust and accurate platform
• Product challenges — building a consumer finance product that works flawlessly for our global user base and through our partner integrations with top crypto exchanges, marketplaces and tax-filing softwares

Our tech stack is

• Web: HTML, Typescript, React, CSS, Sass
• Mobile: React Native, Expo, GraphQL
• Backend: Python, Flask, GraphQL, Postgres, BigTable, Redis, Python RQ
• Infrastructure: Heroku, GCP, AWS
• Data Engineering: Apache Kafka, Airflow, Flink, Spark or equivalent technologies, Segment
• You don’t need to know any or all of these, but be willing to learn!

What's it like working at CoinTracker?

We are a fully internationally distributed, tight-knit team. We have minimal process, and the majority of our time is spent working and collaborating asynchronously through tools like Figma, Github, Google Meet, Linear, Notion, Slack, Zendesk. We also stay aligned and bonded through weekly sprints, standups, all hands, and socials. We aim to empower every individual on the team with full transparency, ownership, autonomy, and clear objectives. If this sounds exciting, we'd love to hear from you! Not sure you’re a perfect fit? Reach out anyway. We’re looking for awesome individuals, not folks who perfectly match a job posting.