Platform Engineer, Staff

🕒 May 19

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Shakepay

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

₿ Crypto

💳 Fintech

💸 Finance

💰 Series A on 2022-01

Crypto • Fintech • Finance

Shakepay is a Canadian company that provides an easy and quick platform for buying, selling, and earning bitcoin and ethereum. It offers a user-friendly app where Canadians can set up accounts, perform transactions, and manage digital currencies like bitcoin and ethereum in minutes. Shakepay is noted for its fast service, commission-free transactions, and cashback rewards, making it an attractive option for cryptocurrency enthusiasts. The company ensures the security of digital assets by keeping them in secure offline storage backed by insurance. Shakepay operates under regulatory oversight as a Money Service Business licensed by FINTRAC and is registered in all Canadian provinces and territories as a Restricted Dealer.

📋 Description

• Define and evolve the architecture of Shakepay's internal developer platform • Design and build core infrastructure that supports our growing systems and teams • Lead development of internal tools and automations that significantly improve developer productivity • Design and implement infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices across the platform • Build and evolve observability systems, including monitoring, alerting, and dashboards • Design and implement AI-powered internal tools and agentic workflows that automate operational and development tasks • Improve the reliability, scalability, and performance of our production environment • Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to promote system design and operational best practices • Lead technical initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams • Mentor engineers and guide technical decisions through design reviews and architecture discussions • Influence the long-term technical direction of our infrastructure and platform ecosystem • Participate in incident response and drive improvements in operational resilience

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps • Strong programming experience (e.g., Go, Python, JavaScript, or equivalent) • Deep experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems • Extensive experience with infrastructure-as-code and automated deployment systems • Experience designing internal platforms or developer tools used by multiple teams • Experience improving developer experience and engineering velocity through platform enhancements • Experience building tools or workflows using AI/LLMs to automate tasks or augment developer productivity • Excellent system design skills and architectural thinking • Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives across multiple teams • Excellent collaboration and communication skills • Pragmatic, problem-solving mindset focused on delivering business outcomes.

🏖️ Benefits

• 🤖 Generous AI token budget (currently unlimited) • 🤝 Become an owner: Every employee receives stock options as part of their compensation. • 🥅 Reach your goals: Annual salary reviews. • 🦷 Health & wellness: Access to health and dental coverage, including health and wellness spending accounts. • 🌎 Remote-friendly: Work from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to our offices in Montreal and Toronto. • 🆙 Level up: An annual $2,000 budget for courses, certifications, and training to support your career growth. • 🌴 Vacation: 20 days of vacation per year. If you use all your vacation, we provide a $1,000 bonus. • 🐣 Parental leave: Benefit from a parental leave top-up of up to 100% of your salary for 18 weeks. • 🙌 Have fun together: Quarterly team- or company-wide outings to encourage in-person connections.