Shakepay - Design Engineer
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Requirements
• Proven hybrid experience: You’ve shipped real products where you owned both the design and code implementation (e.g. React Native, Node, Typescript, Vue.js etc.). • A builder's portfolio: You can point to live products—not just mockups—where you designed and built the experience. You likely use AI tools to prototype, iterate, and accelerate your workflow. • A builder's portfolio: • Strong product taste: You have a sharp eye for quality and know what makes an experience feel intuitive, fast, and delightful. • Strong product taste: • Deep technical understanding: You understand the constraints and possibilities of modern front-end development, and design accordingly—building solutions that are performant, scalable, and maintainable. • Deep technical understanding: • A builder mindset: You don’t wait for specs. You define problems, make decisions, and drive work to completion with minimal oversight. • A builder mindset: • Excellent communication skills: You can articulate design decisions and technical trade-offs clearly across design and engineering. • Passion for Bitcoin, financial empowerment, and the future of money.
Responsibilities
• Own problems end-to-end: 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. • Own problems end-to-end: • Prototype in code: Replace static mockups with functional prototypes to validate ideas quickly and de-risk decisions with real customer feedback. • Prototype in code: • Drive design-led development: Work in a fixed-time, variable-scope environment. Focus on outcomes over outputs, partnering closely with backend and core engineering to deliver meaningful impact. • Drive design-led development: • Ship fast without sacrificing quality: Balance speed and craft. Deliver polished, production-ready experiences on tight timelines, with strong attention to detail in both design and code. • Ship fast without sacrificing quality: • Elevate the UI architecture: Evolve our design system and component libraries so design and code stay perfectly in sync across mobile and web platforms. • Elevate the UI architecture: • Act as a force multiplier: Raise the bar for the entire design team by helping designers ship in code and integrate AI tools into their workflows—improving speed, autonomy, and technical depth across the organization. • Act as a force multiplier:
Benefits
• Help shape the future of money: Be part of a team that's revolutionizing financial services in Canada, one sat at a time. • Help shape the future of money: • Impact millions: As cryptocurrency continues to gain traction, our potential for growth is massive. You can help us bring Shakepay and Bitcoin to all Canadians. • Impact millions: • Grow your career: We’re growing, and so can you! We have programs in place to encourage continuous learning, growth, and development. • Grow your career: • Ideas, not titles: We want the best ideas to make their way through, no matter where they come from. • Ideas, not titles: • 🤝 Be an owner - Every employee has stock options as part of their total compensation • Be an owner • 🥅 Reach your goals - Yearly salary assessments • Reach your goals • 🦷 Health & wellness : Access to comprehensive health and dental coverage, including health and wellness spending accounts. • 🦷 Health & wellness : • 🌎 Remote-friendly: Work from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to our office spaces in Montreal and Toronto. • 🌎 Remote-friendly • 🆙 Level Up: A $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training to support your career growth. • Level Up • 🌴 Time off: 20 days of vacation per year. And if you use all your vacation, we give you a $1,000 bonus. • 🌴 Time off • 🐣 Parental leave: Enjoy a parental leave top up to 100% of your salary for 18 weeks. • 🐣 Parental leave • 🙌 Have fun together: quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsite to connect with each other • 🙌 Have fun together: • The base salary range for this position is $150,000+ CAD. Base pay may vary based on factors such as years of experience, skills and qualifications. Additionally, employees are eligible for equity, pay increases based on performance, benefits including health and dental care, and paid time off. • We understand that potential can be just as valuable as experience. If you're eager to learn, grow, and contribute to the mission but worry that you may not have the “right” experience, we still want you to apply. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background and life experience. We’re firm believers that a little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept. • Fluency in English is required due to the percentage of English-speaking customers and the nature of our platform, which is available to all Canadians. • We use technology, including artificial intelligence (AI), to support certain parts of our hiring process. This can include tools that assist with scheduling, application review, candidate communications, and generating interview notes, guides, or summaries so our team can stay focused on the conversation. All hiring decisions are made by our hiring team.
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