Staff Product Designer Who Codes
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
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About the Role
A design-first product design role bridging design, product, and engineering. The role focuses on solving complex problems, designing intuitive experiences, and writing code to prototype or ship customer-facing products rapidly.
Requirements
- Experience shipping products with ownership of both design and code implementation, including technologies such as React, TypeScript, Node.js, or Vue.js.
- A portfolio of live products that were designed and built, not only mockups.
- Strong product judgment and attention to quality and intuitive experiences.
- Deep understanding of modern front-end development constraints and possibilities.
- Ability to define problems, make decisions, and complete work with minimal oversight.
- Excellent communication of design decisions and technical trade-offs.
- Passion for Bitcoin, financial empowerment, and the future of money.
- Fluency in English.
Responsibilities
- Own product features end to end from problem understanding through design, front-end implementation, and release.
- Build functional prototypes to validate ideas and reduce decision risk through customer feedback.
- Partner with backend and core engineering in a fixed-time, variable-scope environment.
- Deliver polished, production-ready experiences on tight timelines.
- Evolve design systems and component libraries across mobile and web platforms.
- Help designers ship in code and integrate AI tools into their workflows.
Benefits
- Stock options as part of total compensation
- Yearly salary assessments
- Comprehensive health and dental coverage, including wellness spending accounts
- Remote work from anywhere in Canada with optional access to Montreal and Toronto offices
- $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 or company-wide offsites