Shakepay

Staff Software Engineer - future opportunities

Remote, Canada · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$215k-$265kDetected 56 days ago

TypeScriptReactReact NativeNode.jsBackend DevelopmentPostgreSQLDatadogCommunication

About the role

The base salary range for this position is $214,500 - $265,000 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.
If you're the kind of person who values growth, shipping fast, and sharing your ideas openly with a group of like-minded people, come and build with us!
Since 2015, we've been building the Shakepay app to make buying and earning bitcoin fast, easy, and secure.

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're on a mission to usher in the Bitcoin golden age.
We're reimagining financial services to give every Canadian their fair shake.
Our culture is built around doing work that matters, winning as a team, and celebrating success.

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