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Site Reliability Engineer
ShapeShift is the leading non-custodial crypto platform that makes the world of digital finance easy and secure. Since 2014, ShapeShift has pioneered a new era of digital finance, earning a place as one of the most beloved and respected brands leading a dynamic industry. The company offers its users a full featured platform experience via mobile and the web. ShapeShift also offers developers open and extensible APIs and SDK infrastructure from which they build exciting new digital finance applications. Led by industry veteran Erik Voorhees, ShapeShift is building the team to expand the company’s leadership position as the phenomenon of decentralized digital finance expands around the globe.
POSITION OVERVIEW
ShapeShift is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to build and maintain platform infrastructure for this growing organization. The Site Reliability Engineer will be leveraging Docker container orchestration and CI platforms to ensure maximum performance and availability of ShapeShift’s software services, evolving our metric collection and reporting infrastructure to provide Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of these services to the business, and serve as an ambassador of DevOps culture to our internal engineering teams. The ideal candidate will possess expert-level ability with core AWS technologies (ECS, IAM, VPC, RDS, ElastiCache), Hashicorp Terraform, and CircleCI. This position offers a unique opportunity to help revolutionize the Financial-Technical Services industry simply by doing what you already love to do: Build stuff to run things.
This is a full-time, exempt position, and reports to the Engineering Manager.
Your desire to make a real impact on an organization and the world grows by the day. The ideal candidate will be open to daily changes in workflow and protocol (and force us to improve workflows). As a start-up in an evolving space, there are new challenges that require new solutions every day.
GOALS OF POSITION
<ul>
<li>Maintain maximum reliability and uptime of business-critical services.</li>
<li>Provision new systems, maintain existing systems, and migrate legacy systems to new infrastructure.</li>
<li>Provide insight into business and infrastructure performance via development, implementation, and monitoring of software-based Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).</li>
<li>Triage and resolve unplanned issues as they arise.</li>
<li>Categorize, generate acceptance criteria for, and create action items for new, unplanned work requirements.  </li>
</ul>
WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE
<ul>
<li>Proven experience maintaining a complex, microservice-based architecture.</li>
<li>Ability to fabricate achievable, deliverable action items from monolithic business requirements.</li>
<li>Ability to constructively and empathetically communicate with your customer base, consisting of software engineering teams with varying ranges of technical expertise.</li>
<li>Ability to work independently, enthusiastically, and creatively.</li>
<li>Ability to effectively communicate with your peers with empathy and perspective.</li>
<li>A strong sense of responsibility, ownership, and integrity of character.</li>
</ul>
REQUIRED EDUCATION &amp; EXPERIENCE
<ul>
<li>Professional experience with Linux in a high volume, high-availability environment.</li>
<li>Proficiency using Hashicorp Terraform to provision and manage infrastructure in AWS.</li>
<li>Strong literacy and experience with Docker and Kubernetes (Amazon ECS is a plus).</li>
<li>Proficiency at deploying and managing infrastructure and software with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery tooling (CircleCI).</li>
<li>Deep understanding of AWS core technologies (ECS/EC2, VPC, IAM, ALB, RDS, ElastiCache).</li>
</ul>
PREFERRED EDUCATION &amp; EXPERIENCE
<ul>
<li>Experience operating blockchain clients or nodes (bitcoind, parity, geth).</li>
<li>Familiarity with financial markets and terminology, exchange and trade platforms, and matching engines.</li>
<li>Experience with metric collection and visualization platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc).</li>
<li>Experience with MEAN stack (Mongo, Express.js, Angular, NodeJS).</li>
<li>Experience using JIRA for Agile process-driven development.</li>
</ul>
REQUIRED TRAVEL
No travel is required for this position.
Being available for an on-call rotation in the event of a crisis is desirable -- actually being summoned after-hours is a rarity.
OTHER DUTIES
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; and use hands to finger, handle or feel controls. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move objects up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and distance vision. This is largely a sedentary role; however, some filing is required. This would require the ability to lift files, open filing cabinets and bend or stand on a stool as necessary.
ShapeShift is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and welcomes all qualified applicants. Applicants will receive fair and impartial consideration without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic data, or other legally protected status.

Site Reliability Engineer (DevOps)

ShapeShift is seeking a Software Engineer to design and build features into ShapeShift products. The Software Engineer will be working in a number of code repositories, using some combination of JavaScript (Node.js and React) and Python. Engineers work in small cross-functional teams, and experience a lot of variety, while still having opportunity to develop expertise in areas of interest. The ideal candidate will thrive in a development environment where engineers find creative solutions inside of a standard framework. Standards are constantly iterated on as the crypto-currency environment is in a high state of flux, and development best practices evolve. This position offers a unique opportunity to build the next generation of crypto tools for customer financial sovereignty.
 This is a full-time, exempt position, and reports to the Engineering Manager.
Your desire to make a real impact on an organization and the world grows by the day. The ideal candidate will be open to daily changes in workflow and protocol (and force us to improve workflows). As a start-up in an evolving space, there are new challenges that require new solutions every day.
GOALS OF POSITIONS
<ul>
<li>Work with a small team within the larger organization to build new features</li>
<li>Break down work into discrete, independently release-able stories</li>
<li>Write clean, maintainable code with unit tests</li>
<li>Generate creative coding solutions that follow enterprise-wide coding and architecture standards. Contribute to standards.</li>
<li>Track work in engineering-wide workflow (inside of Jira)</li>
<li>Produce responsive cross-platform features</li>
<li>Proactively adds documentation to help others</li>
<li>Understands networking basics and how different software systems communicate</li>
<li>Can be counted on for on-call tier-1 issue resolution</li>
</ul>
JOB SKILLS
<ul>
<li>BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience</li>
<li>3+ years of full stack engineering experience</li>
<li>Experience with modern JavaScript-based frameworks. We are particularly looking for React + Node.js</li>
<li>Solid intuition for REST API design</li>
<li>Understanding of databases</li>
<li>Proficiency building web backends in Python and/or Node.js</li>
<li>Great design intuition, user empathy, and attention to detail </li>
<li>Experience with source control, preferably Git</li>
<li>Understand microservices architecture</li>
<li>Working knowledge of Docker containerization</li>
<li>Understanding of Internet concepts, protocols, and technologies</li>
<li>Passion for innovation. You should be a person who thrives on creating innovative and scalable technology applications without always requiring instruction.</li>
<li>Desire to continuously learn, problem-solve and acquire new skills with cutting-edge technology.</li>
<li>Desire for success as an individual, as a team, and as a company</li>
<li>Most importantly, a strong sense of responsibility, ownership, and character</li>
</ul>
BONUS ATTRIBUTES 
<ul>
<li>Experience with cryptocurrency and blockchain (address generation, transaction construction, use cases, software daemons, wallet infrastructure and anything related to this evolving field)</li>
<li>Any experience or understanding using Ethereum or other Smart Contract based systems (familiarity with Solidity is a big plus)</li>
<li>Experience with GraphQL and related client libraries (Apollo + Relay)</li>
<li>Familiarity with financial markets and terminology, exchange platforms, and matching engines</li>
<li>Adept using Agile process driven development</li>
</ul>
REQUIRED TRAVEL 
No travel is expected for this position.
OTHER DUTIES
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; and use hands to finger, handle or feel controls. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move objects up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and distance vision. This is largely a sedentary role; however, some filing is required. This would require the ability to lift files, open filing cabinets and bend or stand on a stool as necessary.  
ShapeShift is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and welcomes all qualified applicants. Applicants will receive fair and impartial consideration without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic data, or other legally protected status.
WHAT WE OFFER YOU
<ul>
<li>Salary band: $98,000 - $120,000</li>
<li>100% Covered Health, Dental and Vision Insurance</li>
<li>Flexible Time Off</li>
<li>Remote work </li>
<li>401(k)</li>
<li>Generous Maternity and Paternity Leave</li>
<li>Opportunity to be paid in Bitcoin</li>
</ul>

Software Engineer

ShapeShift is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build features into ShapeShift products. The Senior Software Engineer will be working in a number of code repositories, using some combination of JavaScript, Python, and go. The ideal candidate will thrive in a development environment where engineers find creative solutions inside of a standard framework. Standards are constantly iterated on as the cryptocurrency environment is in a high state of flux, and development best practices evolve. This position offers a unique opportunity to build the next generation of crypto tools for customer financial sovereignty.
This is a full-time, exempt position, based in Denver, Colorado and reports to the Engineering Manager.
Your desire to make a real impact on an organization and the world grows by the day. The ideal candidate will be open to daily changes in workflow and protocol (and force us to improve workflows). As a start-up in an evolving space, there are new challenges that require new solutions every day.
GOALS OF POSITIONS
<ul>
<li>Work with a small team within the larger organization to build new features</li>
<li>Be able to lead the break down of work into discrete, independently release-able stories</li>
<li>Write clean, maintainable code with unit tests</li>
<li>Track work in engineering-wide workflow (inside of Jira)</li>
<li>Produce responsive cross-platform features</li>
<li>Follow enterprise-wide coding and architecture standards. Contribute to standards as requested.</li>
<li>Proactively adds documentation to help others</li>
<li>Understands networking basics and how different software systems communicate</li>
<li>Can troubleshoot issues across systems independently</li>
<li>Can be counted on for on-call tier-2 issue resolution</li>
</ul>
SUCCESS METRICS OF POSITIONS
<ul>
<li>Consistent cycle-time for story completion</li>
<li>Build features that pass third-party tested acceptance criteria</li>
<li>Features developed include metrics collection to inform new product decisions</li>
<li>Push code that if creates new issues in production, is simple to troubleshoot and resolve     </li>
</ul>
JOB SKILLS
<ul>
<li>BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience</li>
<li>7+ years of full stack engineering experience</li>
<li>Experience with modern JavaScript-based frameworks. We are particularly looking for React + Redux / NodeJS</li>
<li>Solid intuition for REST API design</li>
<li>Solid understanding of databases</li>
<li>Proficiency building web backends in Python and/or Node.js and/or Go</li>
<li>Great design intuition, user empathy, and attention to detail </li>
<li>Experience with source control, preferably Git</li>
<li>Knowledge of NoSQL, ES6/7, babel, redux, AWS</li>
<li>Understand microservices architecture</li>
<li>Understand scalability challenges and solutions</li>
<li>Understanding of Internet concepts, protocols, and technologies</li>
<li>Passion for innovation. You should be a person who thrives on creating innovative and scalable technology applications without always requiring instruction.</li>
<li>Desire to continuously learn, problem-solve and acquire new skills with cutting-edge technology</li>
<li>Desire for success as an individual, as a team, and as a company</li>
<li>Adept in communicating and discussing requirements and timelines with business stakeholders</li>
<li>Most importantly, a strong sense of responsibility, ownership, and character</li>
</ul>
BONUS ATTRIBUTES 
<ul>
<ul>
<li>Experience with cryptocurrency and blockchain (address generation, transaction construction, use cases, software daemons, wallet infrastructure and anything related to this evolving field)</li>
<li>Any experience or understanding using Ethereum or other Smart Contract based systems (familiarity with Solidity is a big plus)</li>
<li>Experience with GraphQL and related client libraries (Apollo + Relay)</li>
<li>Experience with data visualization (D3, Highcharts, or other charting libraries)</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>You have experience writing both unit and E2E tests</li>
<li>Experience using Docker</li>
<li>Experience with big data and distributed systems such as Kafka, Cassandra, Spark, etc.</li>
<li>Familiarity with financial markets and terminology, exchange platforms, and matching engines</li>
<li>Adept using Agile process driven development</li>
</ul>
REQUIRED TRAVEL 
No travel is expected for this position.
OTHER DUTIES
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; and use hands to finger, handle or feel controls. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move objects up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and distance vision. This is largely a sedentary role; however, some filing is required. This would require the ability to lift files, open filing cabinets and bend or stand on a stool as necessary. 
ShapeShift is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and welcomes all qualified applicants. Applicants will receive fair and impartial consideration without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic data, or other legally protected status.
WHAT WE OFFER YOU
<ul>
<li>Salary band: $129,000 - $158,000</li>
<li>100% Covered Health, Dental and Vision Insurance</li>
<li>Flexible Time Off</li>
<li>Remote work </li>
<li>401(k)</li>
<li>Generous Maternity and Paternity Leave</li>
<li>Opportunity to be paid in Bitcoin</li>
</ul>

Senior Software Engineer

ShapeShift is the leading non-custodial Digital Asset Platform that allows users to access crypto services, tools, and data. Since 2014, ShapeShift has pioneered a new era of digital finance, earning a place as one of the most beloved and respected brands in a booming and volatile new industry.
Led by industry veteran Erik Voorhees, the company is seeking out the best new team members to further scale the organization and maintain leadership while the phenomenon of decentralized digital finance expands around the globe. As part of this growing team, ShapeShift is looking to hire a Senior Accountant. 
Position Overview
ShapeShift is seeking a Senior Accountant to manage and lead the company’s financial statement preparation and presentation. In this role, you’ll guide financial decisions by establishing, monitoring, and enforcing policies and procedures. The ideal candidate will be detail-oriented, data-driven, and thrives in ever-changing environments. The Senior Accountant will have the opportunity to be a key player in growing and shaping a world class accounting department at ShapeShift. 
This is a full-time, exempt position, based in Denver, Colorado and reports to the Controller.
Goals of Position
<ul>
<li>Own Netsuite ERP administration as a subject matter expert</li>
<li>Responsible for payroll disbursement functions, including maintaining various payroll databases, sending payments in cryptocurrency (mostly Bitcoin), and liaising with HR for benefits payments</li>
<li>Lead monthly close process and ensure expenses are coded accurately by department and team(s) to facilitate timely budget versus actual spend</li>
<li>Manage the budget process by working cross functionally with department heads to examine current costs, changes, and any necessary cuts or additions to the budget</li>
<li>Own the Asset and Liability portion of Balance Sheet from a reconcilement and activity perspective</li>
<li>Safeguard company assets and acts with the highest diligence and care when paying vendors and employees in both USD and cryptocurrencies  </li>
<li>Provide management with timely and accurate information that is vital to making data-driven decisions </li>
<li>Assess current accounting operations, offer recommendations for improvement and implement new processes to increase efficiency or accuracy when needed</li>
<li>Maintain database oversight of negotiated contracts and ensure vendors are paid per contractual obligations and in accordance with schedules, as well as reconciling  prepaid and general accrual accounts</li>
<li>Lead employee trainings on payroll procedures and relevant regulations</li>
<li>Update payroll system to reflect employee crypto payment elections</li>
<li>Maintain immaculate records and acts with the highest integrity</li>
<li>Protect assets by establishing, monitoring, and enforcing internal controls</li>
<li>Assist the Controller and CFO with audits and related activity</li>
</ul>
Success Metrics of Position
<ul>
<li>Completion of monthly financial statement reports for all stakeholders by agreed upon deadline</li>
<li>All vendor bills are accounted for systematically, within budget, and paid on time </li>
<li>Vendors are paid per invoice terms</li>
<li>Adherence to proper approvals in accordance with company-wide approval matrix is maintained</li>
<li>Payroll related changes are logged and paid accordingly </li>
<li>Assurance that the company is compliant with all applicable state and federal wage and hour laws for both US and non-US based employees through liaising with external parties and third-party payroll service providers</li>
<li>Maintenance of up-to-date Netsuite knowledge with all users being fully trained on navigating the system</li>
</ul>
Job Skills
<ul>
<li>Ability to prepare various journal entries, account reconciliations, and provide general ledger support</li>
<li>Ability to work with multiple platforms on non-linear and asymmetric projects, and to perform rapid changes in workflow and process, all in a fast-moving startup tech ecosystem</li>
<li>Proven ability to work effectively across departments </li>
<li>Effectively communicate with vendors and related parties </li>
<li>Ability to grow  financial staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees</li>
<li>Ability to identify internal control weakness and remediations</li>
<li>Diligence with respects to disbursements and controls</li>
<li>Advanced knowledge of bookkeeping and accounting best practices, laws, standards, and national/international regulations</li>
<li>Quick learner, independent, and operate with light management</li>
</ul>
Required Education and Experience
<ul>
<li>Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance or related field</li>
<li>8+ years of accounting &amp; analytical experience providing actionable information to senior management</li>
<li>Experience with Netsuite ERP and general comfort with 3rd party SaaS platforms</li>
<li>Experience with payroll process, filing required annual, quarterly, and monthly information reports, and familiarity with SaaS payroll platforms</li>
</ul>
Preferred Education and Experience
<ul>
<li>Actively licensed CPA</li>
<li>Expertise with NetSuite ERP and custom report building</li>
<li>Benefits and insurance administration</li>
<li>Prior experience leading team preferred</li>
<li>Strong working knowledge of US GAAP &amp; IFRS </li>
</ul>
WHAT WE OFFER YOU
<ul>
<li>Salary band: $77,000 - $90,000</li>
<li>100% Covered Health, Dental and Vision Insurance</li>
<li>Flexible Time Off</li>
<li>401(k)</li>
<li>Parking &amp; Commuter Benefits</li>
<li>Generous Maternity and Paternity Leave</li>
<li>Opportunity to be paid in Bitcoin</li>
</ul>
Required Travel
No travel is expected for this position.
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; and use hands to finger, handle or feel controls. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move objects up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and distance vision. This is largely a sedentary role; however, some filing is required. This would require the ability to lift files, open filing cabinets and bend or stand on a stool as necessary.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.
ShapeShift is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and welcomes all qualified applicants. Applicants will receive fair and impartial consideration without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic data, or other legally protected status.
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