The vacancy is well-structured with clear expectations and competitive compensation, though company visibility could be improved.
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Overview
Join Shakepay as a Senior Software Engineer to build high-quality software that impacts millions of users. Enjoy a fully remote role with a competitive salary and generous benefits. At Shakepay, we build products that help Canadians buy, earn, and save bitcoin simply and securely. Since launching in 2015, we’ve grown to more than one million customers across Canada. In 2022, we launched the Shakepay Card, enabling customers to earn bitcoin rewards on everyday spending. Today, we operate real financial infrastructure where correctness, reliability, and judgment matter.
In this role, you will
- •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.
Perks And 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.
You likely bring
- •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.
Technical experience
You likely have experience with several of the following
- •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.
Nice to have, but not required
- •Mobile development with React Native.
- •Experience building financial, payments, or crypto-related systems.
- •Experience in high-growth or fast-moving product environments.