Staff Design Engineer
Shakepay is a Canadian platform designed for buying and selling Bitcoin and Ethereum. It aims to make cryptocurrency accessible to Canadians, offering commission-free transactions, rewards programs like ShakingSats for free bitcoin, and a Shakepay Card for earning bitcoin cashback. The service is regulated and focuses on security and user control over their digital assets.
About Shakepay
Shakepay is a Canadian platform that allows users to buy, sell, and earn cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. The service emphasizes ease of use, enabling users to set up an account and begin transactions within minutes. Key features include commission-free trading at market-leading prices, the ability to earn bitcoin rewards through various activities such as shaking the phone (ShakingSats), cashback on purchases with the Shakepay Card, and a referral program. The platform supports direct deposits and allows users to move their digital assets to a private wallet or cash out to a bank account quickly. Shakepay highlights its security measures, including keeping digital currencies in secure, offline storage backed by insurance. The company is regulated as a member of the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO), registered as an Investment Dealer in all Canadian provinces and territories, and licensed as a Money Service Business by FINTRAC.
Skills
About the Role
You own product features from understanding the problem through designing the experience and shipping front end code to users. You prototype in code to validate ideas quickly and de risk decisions with real customer feedback. You work with backend and core engineering to deliver meaningful impact and high quality experiences.
Requirements
- Proven hybrid experience shipping real products where you owned both design and code implementation React Typescript Node Vue
- A builder's portfolio showing live products and AI assisted prototypes
- Strong product taste and ability to craft intuitive fast and delightful experiences
- Deep technical understanding of modern front end development with scalable maintainable solutions
- A builder mindset with initiative to define problems and drive work to completion with minimal oversight
- Excellent communication skills to articulate design decisions and tradeoffs clearly across design and engineering
- Passion for Bitcoin financial empowerment and the future of money
Responsibilities
- Own problems end to end by taking full ownership of product features from understanding the problem to shipping to users.
- Prototype in code by replacing static mockups with functional prototypes to validate ideas quickly and gather real customer feedback.
- Drive design led development by collaborating with backend and core engineering to deliver meaningful impact.
- Ship fast without sacrificing quality by delivering polished production ready experiences on tight timelines.
- Elevate the UI architecture by evolving design system and component libraries across mobile and web.
- Act as a force multiplier by helping designers ship in code and integrating AI tools into workflows.
Benefits
- Stock options
- Health and dental coverage
- Remote friendly work from anywhere in Canada
- Yearly salary assessments
- 2,000 CAD annual budget for courses and training
- 20 days vacation per year with a 1,000 CAD bonus if you use all vacation days
- Parental leave top up up to 100% of salary for 18 weeks
- Quarterly team or company offsites
- Equity