2 months ago
Remote, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Drive ambiguous, high-impact problems from initial idea through production.
- Partner with Product and Design to define scope, trade-offs, and execution plans.
- Design, build, and evolve reliable, correct, and maintainable production systems.
- Share ownership of systems through on-call responsibilities and incident response.
- Contribute to technical and product decisions that shape the team’s direction.
- Improve team standards, tooling, and development processes.
Requirements
- Demonstrated ownership of production features or systems, including reliability and on-call responsibilities.
- Strong product and customer judgment with the ability to make thoughtful trade-offs under ambiguity.
- Backend development experience using Node.js and TypeScript.
- Experience with relational databases such as Postgres.
- Experience operating production systems with observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog.
- Comfort working in containerized or cloud-based environments.
- Ability to review AI-generated pull requests with appropriate skepticism.
- Experience with React Native, financial systems, payments, crypto-related systems, or high-growth product environments is preferred but not required.
Benefits
- Base role is remote-friendly from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to office spaces in Montreal and Toronto.
- Stock options are included as part of total compensation.
- Full health and dental benefits include a separate mental-health budget.
- $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training.
- 20 vacation days per year, plus a $1,000 bonus for using all vacation.
- Parental leave top-up to 100% of salary for 18 weeks.
- Quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsites.
- Generous AI token budget, currently unlimited.
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About Shakepay
Shakepay is a Montreal-based, privately held fintech that provides a platform for Canadians to buy, earn, and save bitcoin, and pay friends. Launched in 2015, it serves over one million customers and operates the Shakepay Card, which lets users earn bitcoin rewards on everyday spending. The company builds and runs its own financial infrastructure to support consumer bitcoin investing and payments in Canada.