Security engineer
CoinTracker makes cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and tax compliance simple. Beyond cryptocurrency, we are building a general automated financial assistant for all financial assets.
Our mission is to increase the financial freedom and prosperity of the world.
Some things we’re proud of :
Building foundational tools in the cryptocurrency space
Strong growth trajectory
$50B+ in cryptocurrency is tracked on CoinTracker over 5% of the entire crypto market
Partnered with Coinbase, Uniswap, OpenSea, eToro, H&R Block and other industry leaders
Venture-backed by Accel, General Catalyst, Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Kraken Ventures, Intuit Ventures, 776 Ventures, Balaji Srinivasan, Claire Hughes Johnson, Gokul Rajaram, Ryan Shea, Serena Williams, Zach Perret, and others
Founders : Jon previously built TextNow (200M downloads), Chandan was previously a product manager at Google & Google x
Learn more about our mission, culture, and hiring process.
Your opportunity :
Join our tight-knit early-stage distributed team that thrives on interesting technical challenges and building magical products that improve people's lives.
As our first Security Engineer, you will lead the charge to ensure CoinTracker has best in class security across our infrastructure and products.
You will :
Audit our system end-to-end to identify security risks
Design and implement changes to address security risks
Partner with engineers on projects and pull requests with security implications to improve security posture
Manage ongoing blackbox security testing with external vendors
Help with compliance efforts like SOC2
Help interview new engineers
You may enjoy this role if you :
Are passionate about building best-in-class security systems
Familiar with security testing practices and tools relevant for a modern software stack dealing with consumer data
Stay up to date with latest trends and security vulnerability reports and help us update our software as needed
Have experience scaling security engineering needs of a startup to a mid-size company
Sample projects you might work on :
Cross-platform OAuth authentication for the CoinTracker application
Application vulnerability scanning as part of the code release process
RBAC infrastructure access for employees
Security hardening of cloud estate
Some of the skills we’re excited about
3+ year of security engineering specific experience
3+ years of software development experience
Productive, resourceful, and effective at problem-solving
Drawn to an early-stage, high-growth startup environment with less stability and more ambiguity
Interested in financial products and / or cryptocurrency
Able to work effectively in a remote setting and able to overlap with our core hours of 9 AM to 12 PM PT
Our engineering process includes
Code reviews
Continuous integration
Multiple daily automated deployments to production
Automated testing with >
85% code coverage
Some of the technical challenges we face are
Lots of data billions of data points to track transactions and market pair prices
Data structures & algorithms automated transfer detection, cost basis tracking, tax optimization, and more. Your CS fundamentals finally come in handy!
Scalability some cryptocurrency users, such as algorithmic traders, accumulate millions of transactions per year. CoinTracker needs to work seamlessly for those power crypto traders.
Blockchain whether it's running our own nodes, implementing xPub address generation and traversal, or parsing smart contracts to seamlessly support decentralized trading, we get our hands dirty with core blockchain technology
Technical complexity integrating with hundreds of exchanges and blockchains and supporting thousands of cryptocurrencies means we have to methodically architect our software and build critical monitoring systems to deliver a robust and accurate platform
Product challenges building a consumer finance product that works flawlessly for our global user base and through our partner integrations with top crypto exchanges, marketplaces, and tax-filing software
Our tech stack is
Web : HTML, Typescript, React, React Native, Styled-Components
Mobile : React Native, Expo, GraphQL
Backend : Python, Flask, GraphQL, Postgres, BigTable, Redis, Python RQ
Infrastructure : GCP, Terraform, PostgreSQL, Docker, Pub / Sub, Datadog, PagerDuty
You don’t need to know any or all of these, but be willing to learn!
We are a fully internationally distributed, tight-knit team. We have minimal process, and the majority of our time is spent working and collaborating asynchronously through tools like Figma, Github, Google Meet, Linear, Notion, Slack, Zendesk.
We also stay aligned and bonded through weekly sprints, standups, all hands, and socials. We aim to empower every individual on the team with full transparency, ownership, autonomy, and clear objectives.
Learn more about our guiding principles.
If this sounds exciting, we'd love to hear from you! Not sure you’re a perfect fit? Reach out anyway. We’re looking for awesome individuals, not folks who perfectly match a job posting.
Last updated : 2023-10-12