Shakepay

Senior Software Engineer - future opportunities

Remote, Canada · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$170k-$220kDetected 57 days ago

TypeScriptReactReact NativeNode.jsBackend DevelopmentPostgreSQLDatadogCommunication

About the role

The base salary range for this position is $170,000- $220,000 CAD.
Exceptional candidates may be considered above the top of the range, and pay can increase quickly for those who make a big impact in the role.

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.
Share ownership of the systems you build, including on-call responsibilities and incident response.
Help raise the bar for how the team builds by improving standards, tooling, and processes.
This role is for engineers who enjoy responsibility, thrive in ambiguity, and care deeply about building high-quality software that ships to production and holds up under real-world use.
You will collaborate closely with Product, Design, and other engineers to define problems, design solutions, and deliver them to production.

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.
Comfort reading legacy code and not immediately rewriting it all.
Comfort reviewing AI-generated PRs with the same skepticism you'd apply to a human PR.
You will be expected to operate with a high degree of ownership and judgment, from early design through launch and long-term reliability.

In addition to base salary, this role includes equity compensation.
We use clear job levels and market-based salary bands to ensure compensation is fair and consistent across the company.
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.
🆙 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.
Total compensation: In addition to base salary, this role includes equity compensation.

Although we don't have a specific immediate opening on the software engineering team, we are always on the lookout for exceptional people who are passionate about what we're building at Shakepay.
We use clear job levels and market-based salary bands to ensure compensation is fair and consistent across the company.
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.
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer who wants to own meaningful systems end to end and help shape how we build as a team.

This listing is sourced directly from Shakepay's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.