Staff Software Engineer

🕒 May 26

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Shakepay

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

💼 Consulting

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🛡️ Insurance

💰 Series A on 2022-01

Consulting • Food & Beverage • Insurance

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

• Take ambiguous, high-impact problems and drive them from idea to production. • Partner closely with Product and Design to define scope, trade-offs, and execution plans. • Design, build, and evolve production systems with a strong focus on reliability, correctness, and maintainability. • Balance speed and quality, knowing when to move fast and when to slow down. • Share ownership of the systems you build, including on-call responsibilities and incident response. • Contribute to technical and product decisions that shape the direction of your team • Help raise the bar for how the team builds by improving standards, tooling, and processes.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong product and customer judgment. You care about what is being built and why. • Proven ownership of features or systems running in production, including reliability and on-call responsibility. • Comfort working through ambiguity and making thoughtful trade-offs with incomplete information. • A steady desire to improve your craft and the systems around you. • Curiosity, pragmatism, and a bias for action. • Active use of AI tools in your day-to-day workflow to accelerate development, debugging, and learning. • Comfort reading legacy code and not immediately rewriting it all. • Backend development using Node.js and TypeScript • Relational databases such as Postgres • Operating production systems with observability and monitoring (eg. Datadog) • Working in containerized or cloud-based environments • Comfort reviewing AI-generated PRs with the same skepticism you’d apply to a human PR. • Mobile development with React Native (Nice to have, but not required) • Experience building financial, payments, or crypto-related systems (Nice to have, but not required) • Experience in high-growth or fast-moving product environments (Nice to have, but not required)

🏖️ Benefits

• 🤖 Generous AI token budget (currently unlimited) • 🤝 Stock options as part of their total compensation • 🦷 Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget to take care of your mental health • 🌎 Remote-friendly: Work from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to our office spaces in Montreal and Toronto. • 🆙 A $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training to support your career growth. • 🌴 20 days of vacation per year. And if you use all your vacation, we give you a $1,000 bonus. • 🐣 Parental leave top up to 100% of your salary for 18 weeks. • 🙌 Quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsite to connect with each other