Open Application for Bitcoiners - future opportunities
Shakepay is a Canadian financial services company that lets Canadians buy, sell, send, and hold bitcoin and ethereum. It also offers bitcoin rewards, direct deposit, cashback, and wallet transfers.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
Funding history
About Shakepay
Shakepay provides a Canadian crypto platform for buying and selling bitcoin and ethereum, sending money, and moving bitcoin to private wallets or cash to banks. Its offerings include recurring bitcoin buys, bitcoin rewards for shaking and shopping, direct deposit, referrals, business services, and private-client services. The company states that it is a CIRO member, registered as an Investment Dealer across Canadian provinces and territories, and licensed by FINTRAC as a Money Service Business.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
This open application is for mission-aligned Bitcoiners who can identify where they would create leverage at Shakepay and provide evidence of work they have shipped, built, sold, grown, fixed, or significantly improved.
Requirements
- Be based in Canada.
- Have deep conviction in bitcoin as the future of money.
- Demonstrate ownership, execution, and independent thinking.
- Be comfortable with ambiguity, small teams, and high accountability.
- Be fluent in English.
- Care about self-custody, running a node, and long-term bitcoin adoption.
Responsibilities
- Identify where you could create the most leverage for bitcoin adoption.
- Propose what you would build, fix, or improve at Shakepay.
- Provide evidence of shipped, built, sold, grown, or significantly improved work.
- Contribute across areas such as engineering, design, growth, marketing, community, customer operations, compliance, finance, or people.
Benefits
- Stock options as part of total compensation.
- Yearly salary assessments.
- Health and dental coverage.
- Health and wellness spending accounts.
- Remote work from anywhere in Canada.
- Optional access to office spaces in Montreal and Toronto.
- $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training.
- 20 days of vacation per year.
- $1,000 bonus for using all vacation.
- Parental leave top-up to 100% of salary for 18 weeks.
- Quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsites.
Hiring Process
Submit an introduction, explain why you want to work on bitcoin and at Shakepay, describe what you would build, fix, or improve, provide examples of shipped or improved work, and answer questions about bitcoin adoption and your execution track record.
