Staff Platform Engineer
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 8/23/2026
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
Design and evolve the internal developer platform and foundational infrastructure that enables engineering teams to build, ship, and operate software quickly and reliably. Build internal tooling and automation, implement infrastructure-as-code and GitOps, develop observability, and create AI-powered tools and agentic workflows to automate tasks and improve system reliability, scalability, and performance. Lead cross-team technical initiatives, mentor engineers, run design reviews, and influence long-term platform architecture and operational practices.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps roles
- Strong programming experience with Go, Python, JavaScript, or similar
- Deep experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems
- Extensive experience with infrastructure-as-code and automated deployment systems
- Experience designing internal platforms or developer tooling used by multiple teams
- Experience improving developer experience and engineering velocity through platform improvements
- Experience building tools or workflows that leverage AI/LLMs to automate tasks or augment developer productivity
- Strong system design and architectural thinking
- Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives across teams
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- A pragmatic mindset focused on solving real business problems
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve the architecture of the internal developer platform
- Design and build foundational infrastructure that supports growing systems and teams
- Lead the development of internal tooling and automation to improve developer productivity
- Architect and implement infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices across the platform
- Build and evolve observability systems including monitoring, alerting, and dashboards
- Design and implement AI-powered internal tools and agentic workflows to automate tasks
- Improve system reliability, scalability, and performance across production environments
- Partner with product and infrastructure teams to drive best practices in system design and operations
- Lead technical initiatives that span multiple engineering teams
- Mentor engineers and guide technical decision-making through design reviews and architecture discussions
- Contribute to incident response and drive improvements to operational resilience
- Influence the long-term technical direction of infrastructure and platform ecosystem
Benefits
- Generous AI token budget, currently unlimited
- Stock options for all employees
- Yearly salary assessments
- Health and dental coverage including health and wellness spending accounts
- Remote work from anywhere in Canada with optional office access in Montreal and Toronto
- $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training
- 20 days of vacation per year and a $1,000 bonus for using all vacation time
- Parental leave top-up to 100% of salary for 18 weeks
- Quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsites