Staff Product Designer Who Codes
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 are the ultimate bridge between design, product, and engineering. This is a design-first role for a product designer who uses code to accelerate prototyping, experimentation, and product development. You don't just design features; you build them. You'll lean heavily into a design-led product development approach, taking complex problems, designing intuitive solutions, and writing the code to prototype or ship them to customers rapidly. If you are a builder who loves living at the intersection of pixel-perfect design and production-ready code, this is for you.
Requirements
- Proven hybrid experience shipping real products where you owned both the design and code implementation (e.g. React, Typescript, Node, Vue.js etc.)
- A builder's portfolio with live products, not just mockups, that you designed and built
- Strong product taste with a sharp eye for quality and intuitive experiences
- Deep technical understanding of modern front-end development constraints and possibilities
- A builder mindset that defines problems, makes decisions, and drives work to completion with minimal oversight
- Excellent communication skills to articulate design decisions and technical trade-offs
- Passion for Bitcoin, financial empowerment, and the future of money
Responsibilities
- Take full ownership of product features from understanding the problem, to designing the experience, to writing the front-end code and shipping it to users
- Replace static mockups with functional prototypes to validate ideas quickly and de-risk decisions with real customer feedback
- Work in a fixed-time, variable-scope environment, focusing on outcomes over outputs, partnering closely with backend and core engineering
- Balance speed and craft to deliver polished, production-ready experiences on tight timelines
- Evolve the design system and component libraries so design and code stay in sync across mobile and web platforms
- Help designers ship in code and integrate AI tools into their workflows to raise the bar for the design team
Benefits
- Stock options as part of total compensation
- Yearly salary assessments
- Comprehensive health and dental coverage, including health and wellness spending accounts
- Remote-friendly work from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to office spaces in Montreal and Toronto
- $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training
- 20 days of vacation per year, plus a $1,000 bonus if all vacation is used
- Parental leave top up to 100% of salary for 18 weeks
- Quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsite