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CoinTracker (YC W18) hiring product engineer to solve crypto accounting

OVERVIEW CoinTracker https://www.cointracker.io/ makes cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and tax compliance simple. CoinTracker enables consumers and businesses to seamlessly track their cryptocurrency portfolio, investment performance, taxes, and more. We are a globally distributed team on a mission to enable everyone in the world to use crypto with peace of mind. Learn more https://www.notion.so/cointracker/CoinTracker-is-Hiring-7308c712493940a3b6e62257d283dad8 about our mission, culture, and hiring process. SOME THINGS WE’RE PROUD OF - 🛠️ Building foundational tools in the cryptocurrency space - 📄 Over 1M tax forms generated - 💲 $80B+ in cryptocurrency is tracked on CoinTracker (~over 5% of the entire crypto market) - 🤝 Partnered with Coinbase, H&R Block, Intuit TurboTax, MetaMask, OpenSea, Phantom, Solana, and Uniswap - 🗺️ Founders: Jon https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonlerner/ previously built TextNow (200M downloads), Chandan https://www.linkedin.com/in/clodha/ was previously a product manager at Google & Google[x] - 💼 $100M+ venture capital raised from Accel, General Catalyst, Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Kraken Ventures, Intuit Ventures, 776 Ventures, Balaji Srinivasan https://twitter.com/balajis, Claire Hughes Johnson https://twitter.com/chughesjohnson, Gokul Rajaram https://twitter.com/gokulr, Serena Williams https://twitter.com/serenawilliams, Zach Perret https://twitter.com/zachperret - 🌴 Awesome benefits https://www.notion.so/cointracker/Benefits-b5db95c6d3224ab1ae3a384048cbaee3 YOUR MISSION As part of our 0→1 B2B Crypto Accounting product team, you'll have the unique opportunity to design and build products and features from scratch, shaping the foundation of a new business line. This is a rare chance to contribute to greenfield projects where your technical expertise, creative problem-solving, and product insights will directly influence the company's growth. We’re looking for a passionate and versatile engineer who thrives in ambiguity, enjoys tackling tough technical challenges, and is excited about delivering delightful user experiences. WHAT YOU WILL DO - Design, develop, and deploy scalable systems and features to bring a brand-new product to life and drive growth. - Drive end-to-end ownership of features, from ideation and design to implementation and optimization. - Collaborate closely with product, design, and business leads to align technical solutions with user needs. - Champion best practices for coding, testing, and operational excellence. WHAT WE LOOK FOR Role-agnostic - Impact: Demonstrated ability to drive business impact - Mission alignment: Hungry and motivated about making progress towards our mission of Enabling everyone in the world to use crypto with peace of mind. - Trust: Say what you believe. Do what you say. - Communication: Able to clearly talk about the details and also zoom out to the bigger picture Role-specific - 3+ years of software development experience as an IC. - 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. - Have a startup mindset: you’re resourceful, adaptable, and not afraid of ambiguity. - Enjoy learning new tools, technologies, and methodologies to stay at the cutting edge. - Able to work effectively in a remote setting and able to overlap with our core hours of 9 AM to 12 PM PT. - [Bonus] Prior experience building 0 → 1 products and engineering systems. SAMPLE PROJECTS YOU MIGHT WORK ON - Build a rules engine to enable enterprises to create rules to programmatically categorize their transactions. - Build accounting integrations to allow customers to sync crypto data to ERP systems - Build reconciliation tools to allow customers to quickly resolve issues before monthly close 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 software OUR TECH STACK IS - Web: HTML, Typescript, React, React Native, TailwindCSS - Mobile: React Native, Expo, GraphQL - Backend: Python, Flask, GraphQL, Postgres, BigTable, Redis, Python RQ - Infrastructure: GCP, Terraform, PostgreSQL, Docker, Pub/Sub, Datadog, PagerDuty - You don’t need to know any or all of these, but be willing to learn!

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