Staff Software 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 8/14/2026
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
You will build financial products and features, write high-quality, well-tested production code, and participate in code reviews. You will collaborate on setting the technical vision and contribute architectural decisions. You will take part in on-call rotations and support production systems, and work across the tech stack to deliver reliable, scalable services — including bitcoin-related product work.
Requirements
- 10+ years working experience as a software engineer
- Be comfortable working across the tech stack
- Fluency in English
Responsibilities
- Participate in building financial products of the future
- Write high quality, well-tested, production level code
- Participate in code reviews
- Collaborate on setting a tech vision for the company
- Participate in on-call rotations for your team
Benefits
- Stock options for every employee
- 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
- Annual $2,000 budget for courses, certifications, and training
- 20 days of vacation per year and $1,000 bonus if you use all your vacation
- Parental leave top up to 100% of salary for 18 weeks
- Quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsites