Senior Legal Counsel
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 9/25/2026
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.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
This hands-on role partners with Product, Compliance, business teams, and executive leadership to launch products, provide practical legal guidance, lead regulatory initiatives, and improve legal operations through AI and automation.
Requirements
- Canadian-qualified lawyer with 5+ years of experience.
- Ability to operate independently and make decisions with incomplete information.
- Business-oriented legal judgment and practical risk analysis.
- Comfort advising product and operational teams on ambiguous questions.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Familiarity with Bitcoin, crypto, securities, payments, AML, or regulated financial products in Canada.
- Experience using AI, automation, or lightweight tooling to improve legal work.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Product, Compliance, and business teams to design and launch products.
- Advise on securities, AML/ATF, payments, consumer protection, and other regulatory matters.
- Lead regulatory initiatives, including examinations, audits, licensing, policy development, and regulator engagement.
- Provide practical, business-oriented advice to company leaders.
- Identify opportunities to use AI, automation, and scalable processes to improve legal work.
- Support commercial agreements, corporate governance, employment, and strategic legal matters.
Benefits
- Stock options for every employee.
- Continuous feedback and quarterly performance and compensation reviews.
- Health and dental coverage, including wellness spending accounts.
- Remote work from anywhere in Canada with optional Montreal and Toronto office access.
- $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training.
- 20 vacation days per year plus a $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
The company uses AI tools for scheduling, application review, candidate communications, and generating interview notes, guides, or summaries. All hiring decisions are made by the hiring team.
