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, allowing 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, and backed by renowned venture capitalists with a funding of $44M. We have a passionate, loyal, and growing community, and we’re looking for people who want to help us build something truly special.
Engineering Manager
We are entering a new age for financial services. Legacy banking products are built on old, decaying technology while new experiences are being constructed from the ground up.
You will recreate how people are meant to build wealth. Bitcoin is enabling a world that could not previously be designed, and you will be the builders’ builder, empowering a team of passionate developers to deliver the best experience to our customers.
What you'll be doing
- Ensure engineers are productive, happy, learning, and doing meaningful work
- Coordinate and direct projects, making detailed plans to accomplish technical and product goals
- Analyze technology, resource needs, and market demand, to plan and assess the feasibility of projects
- Interview and hire the best and brightest software engineers
- Mentor engineers and help cultivate their career aspirations
- Lead a foundational, multi-discipline team of engineers working on complex, full-stack projects with wide impact across the company
- Build or integrate frameworks promoting experimentation and safe release of new features into mobile and web applications
- Work with multiple teams across the company including product, design, legal and customer support
- Get your hands dirty: review code and spend some of your time coding with the team, contributing to their efforts
- Contribute your fair share of memes to our #dev-null slack channel
Who we're looking for
- 5+ years working experience as a software developer
- 5+ years working experience as an engineering manager
- On Call may be required
- Be comfortable working across the tech stack
Nice to have
- Experience with Node.js, Typescript, React-Native, Postgres, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Datadog
- Experience with building financial apps
- Bitcoin knowledge
Why join us?
- Be part of a groundbreaking journey: you'll live on the frontier of financial innovation. Bitcoin is rewriting the rules, and Shakepay is at the forefront.
- Impact and scale: with only 2% of Canadians on Shakepay, the potential for growth is massive. You can help us bring Shakepay and bitcoin to all Canadians.
- Rewarding benefits: we offer competitive compensation (every shaker owns stock options), benefits (health, dental, paramedical, disability, etc), and generous vacation time.
- Embrace continuous learning: ambitious individuals with an insatiable thirst for knowledge will feel at home. Working at Shakepay means you'll be working in an environment that encourages constant growth and development.
- Get paid in bitcoin: choose to take a percentage of your salary in the hardest, soundest money the world has ever known.
- Work remote: work from anywhere in Canada. If you're in Montreal or Toronto, you can also work from our offices.
Perks and benefits
- Competitive compensation and stock options: Get rewarded with competitive pay and join our employee stock option plan.
- Health benefits from day 1: Access to comprehensive 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.
- Learning and development: A $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training to support your career growth.
- Time off: 20 days of vacation per year. And if you use all your vacation, we give you a $1,000 bonus.
- Parental leave: Enjoy a parental leave top up to 100% of your salary for 18 weeks.
- Home office setup: A MacBook, a $1,200 budget for home office improvements, and a monthly stipend for home and internet expenses.
- Salary in bitcoin option: Choose to receive your salary in bitcoin – the soundest money to ever exist.
- Team and company offsites: Whether team-specific or company-wide, these events offer a great chance to connect and collaborate in person.
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.
