CoinTracker enables seamless cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and tax compliance.
CoinTracker is on a mission to increase the worldās financial freedom and prosperity. By enabling seamless cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and accurate tax reporting, we empower people to better understand their crypto portfolio, comply with existing regulations, and make better financial decisions.
Today, our users track over $50 billion of assets across 300+ exchanges and 8,000+ cryptocurrencies, which accounts for more than 3% of the entire crypto market. We recently raised a $100M Series A round from a world-class group of investors, and are partnered with leading companies such as Coinbase, OpenSea, and Intuit.
We are profitable and growing rapidly to meet the increased adoption of cryptocurrency and demand for our products. We are in a strong position to become a foundational layer in the crypto ecosystem, and aim to be a generational company. Reach out to learn more!
Your opportunity:
Join our tight-knit early-stage distributed team that thrives on interesting technical challenges and building magical products that improve people's lives. As our first Security Engineer, you will lead the charge to ensure CoinTracker has best in class security across our infrastructure and products.
You will:
- Audit our system end-to-end to identify security risks
- Design and implement changes to address security risks
- Partner with engineers on projects and pull requests with security implications to improve security posture
- Manage ongoing blackbox security testing with external vendors
- Create or implement the security resources necessary to meet your goals within the cloud
- Help with compliance efforts like SOC2
- Help interview new engineers
You may enjoy this role if you:
- Are passionate about building best-in-class security systems
- Familiar with security testing practices and tools relevant for a modern software stack dealing with consumer data
- Stay up to date with latest trends and security vulnerability reports and help us update our software as needed
- Have experience scaling security engineering needs of a startup to a mid-size company
- You come from a cloud native background
Sample projects you might work on:
- Cross-platform OAuth authentication for the CoinTracker application
- Application vulnerability scanning as part of the code release process
- RBAC infrastructure access for employees
- Security hardening of cloud estate
- SIEM selection and implementation
Some of the skills weāre excited about
- 5+ year of security engineering specific experience
- 5+ years of software development experience
- Productive, resourceful, and effective at problem-solving
- Drawn to an early-stage, high-growth startup environment with less stability and more ambiguity
- Strong fundamentals with a cloud platform like GCP or AWS
- Interested in financial products and/or cryptocurrency
- Able to work effectively in a remote setting and able to overlap with our core hours of 9 AM to 12 PM PT
Our engineering process includes
- Code reviews
- Continuous integration
- Multiple daily automated deployments to production
- Automated testing with >85% code coverage
Some of the technical challenges we face are
- Lots of dataĀ ā billions of data points to track transactions and market pair prices
- Data structures & algorithmsĀ āĀ automated transfer detection, cost basis tracking, tax optimization, and more. Your CS fundamentals finally come in handy!
- Scalability ā some cryptocurrency users, such as algorithmic traders, accumulate millions of transactions per year. CoinTracker needs to work seamlessly for those power crypto traders
- BlockchainĀ āĀ whether it's running our own nodes, implementing xPub address generation and traversal, or parsing smart contracts to seamlessly supportdecentralized trading, we get our hands dirty with core blockchain technology
- Technical complexityĀ āĀ integrating with hundreds of exchanges and blockchains and supporting thousands of cryptocurrencies means we have to methodically architect our software and build critical monitoring systems to deliver a robust and accurate platform
- Product challengesĀ āĀ building a consumer finance product that works flawlessly for our global user base and through our partner integrations with top crypto exchanges, marketplaces, and tax-filing software
Our tech stack is
- Web: HTML, Typescript, React, React Native, Styled-Components
- Mobile: React Native, Expo, GraphQL
- Backend: Python, Flask, GraphQL, Postgres, BigTable, Redis, Python RQ
- Infrastructure: GCP, Terraform, PostgreSQL, Docker, Pub/Sub, Datadog, PagerDuty
- You donāt need to know any or all of these, but be willing to learn!
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