Senior Platform Engineer

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. 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

About Shakepay

Since 2015, we've been building the Shakepay app to make buying and earning Bitcoin fast, easy, and secure. In 2022, we launched the Shakepay Card, which allows shakers to earn Bitcoin rewards when they shop. Today, more than one million Canadians use Shakepay to grow their Bitcoin savings and take control of their financial future. 

We're regulated across all Canadian provinces and territories,​​ backed by renowned venture capitalists, and have $44M in funding. Our passionate, loyal, and growing community is looking for people who want to help us build something truly special.

Our Platform team empowers all of our internal teams by providing the tools and practices they need to be autonomous.

Our team's mission and responsibilities are:

• Automation & Enablement: Build and own internal tools and platforms that empower teams to build and automate with confidence.
• System Scalability & Reliability: Evolve and maintain robust systems that scale with our growth, ensuring seamless and reliable workflows.
• Architecture & Technical Excellence: Drive architectural best practices that optimise performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Quality & Observability: Improve insights with observability, and embed quality as a core principle throughout the organization.

This is a hands-on role on the Platform team where you will build tools, lead initiatives, and collaborate with people across teams to deliver intuitive and effective internal systems. 

What you'll be doing 

• Work with a combination of internally developed tools and third-party solutions, including Retool and other AI-powered services, to deliver scalable and efficient internal systems.
• Rapidly prototype and build internal tools for a variety of functions across the company.
• Work closely with internal users to uncover pain points and inefficiencies in their daily workflows to drive impactful improvements.
• Participate in the on-call rotation and help ensure it remains sustainable for the team.

Who we're looking for 

• 5+ years of experience in an Full Stack engineering, Internal Tooling, or Platform Engineering role with a proven track record of delivering impactful improvements.
• Deep understanding of process engineering, system design, and optimising workflows.
• Passion for improving efficiency and driving measurable business outcomes through technical excellence.

Bonus points

• Experience with technologies like Kubernetes, Datadog, AWS Cloud, PostgreSQL, Terraform, ArgoCD, and
• Background in building FinTech infrastructure or understanding the unique challenges in this space.
• Passion for improving internal developer documentation and knowledge sharing.
• Familiarity with Bitcoin and excitement to learn more.
• A curated folder of Safe-for-Work reaction memes to keep the team laughing.

Why join us?

• Help shape the future of money: Be part of a team revolutionising financial services in Canada, one sat at a time.
• Impact millions: As cryptocurrency continues gaining traction, our growth potential is massive. You can help us bring Shakepay and Bitcoin to all Canadians.
• Grow your career: We're growing, and so can you Our programs encourage continuous learning, growth, and development.
• Ideas, not titles: We want the best ideas to make their way through, no matter where they come from.

Perks and benefits

• Be an owner - Every employee has stock options as part of their total compensation. 
• Reach your goals - Yearly salary assessments. 
• Health & wellness:  Access to health and dental coverage, including health and wellness spending accounts. 
• Remote-friendly: Work from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to our office spaces in Montreal and Toronto.
• Level Up: A $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training to support your career growth.
• Time off: 20 days of vacation per year. We will give you a $1,000 bonus if you use all your vacation time.
• Parental leave: Enjoy a parental leave top-up to 100% of your salary for 18 weeks.
• Have fun together: quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsite to connect with each other.  

We understand that potential can be just as valuable as experience. If you're eager to learn, grow, and contribute to the mission but worry that you may not have the "right" experience, we still want you to apply. 

We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background and life experience. We're firm believers that a little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept.

Fluency in English is required due to the percentage of English-speaking customers and the nature of our platform, which is available to all Canadians.