Staff Platform Engineer

🕒 March 13

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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 foundational infrastructure that supports our growing systems and teams • Lead the development of internal tooling and automation that significantly improves developer productivity • Architect 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 system reliability, scalability, and performance across our production environment • Partner with product and infrastructure teams to drive best practices in system design and operations • Lead technical initiatives that span multiple engineering teams • Mentor engineers and guide technical decision-making through design reviews and architecture discussions • Influence the long-term technical direction of our infrastructure and platform ecosystem • Contribute to incident response and drive improvements to operational resilience

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps roles • Strong programming experience (e.g., Go, Python, JavaScript, or similar) • 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 tooling used by multiple teams • Experience improving developer experience and engineering velocity through platform improvements • Experience building tools or workflows that leverage AI/LLMs to automate tasks or augment developer productivity • Strong system design and architectural thinking • Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives across teams • Strong collaboration and communication skills • A pragmatic mindset focused on solving real business problems.

🏖️ Benefits

• 🤖 AI Enablement: Generous AI token budget (currently unlimited). • 🤝 Be an owner - Every employee has stock options as part of their total compensation. • 🥅 Reach your goals - Yearly salary assessments. • 🦷 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 office spaces in Montreal and Toronto. • 🆙 Level Up: A $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training to support your career growth. • 🌴 Time off: 20 days of vacation per year. We will give you a $1,000 bonus if you use all your vacation time. • 🐣 Parental leave: Enjoy a parental leave top-up to 100% of your salary for 18 weeks. • 🙌 Have fun together: quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsite to connect with each other.