Director of Software Engineering

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.

Director of Software Engineering

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, 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 and grow individual contributors and managers, helping cultivate their careers
• Lead foundational, multi-discipline teams of engineers working on complex, full-stack projects with wide impact across the company
• Drive the strategy for how we test, validate, and safely deliver new features, balancing speed and stability across our web and mobile apps.
• Work closely with product, design, legal and customer support to deliver seamless user experiences
• Get your hands dirty: review code and contribute when it makes sense
• Contribute your fair share of memes to our #dev-null slack channels

Must-Haves

• 10+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years in leadership, including 2+ years leading leads
• Proven ability to scale teams and systems in high-growth environments
• Excellent collaboration and communication abilities to align cross-functional teams

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?

• Help shape the future of money: Be part of a team that's revolutionizing financial services in Canada, one sat at a time.
• Impact millions: As cryptocurrency continues to gain traction, our potential for growth is massive. You can help us bring Shakepay and Bitcoin to all Canadians.
• Grow your career: We’re growing, and so can you! We have programs in place to 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 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.
• 🆙 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. 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.
• 🙌 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.