Shakepay - Staff Platform Engineer
Requirements
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps roles • Strong programming experience (e.g., Go, Python, JavaScript, or similar) • Deep experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems • Extensive experience with infrastructure-as-code and automated deployment systems • Experience designing internal platforms or developer tooling used by multiple teams • Experience improving developer experience and engineering velocity through platform improvements • Experience building tools or workflows that leverage AI/LLMs to automate tasks or augment developer productivity • Strong system design and architectural thinking • Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives across teams • Strong collaboration and communication skills • A pragmatic mindset focused on solving real business problems • Experience with technologies such as Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Kafka, PostgreSQL, ArgoCD, Helm, or Datadog • Experience designing internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure • Experience building infrastructure in fintech or other regulated environments • Experience supporting high-scale production systems • Familiarity with Bitcoin and curiosity to learn more • A folder of SafeForWork reaction memes • Help shape the future of money: Be part of a team revolutionising financial services in Canada, one sat at a time. • Help shape the future of money: • Impact millions: As cryptocurrency continues gaining traction, our growth potential 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! Our programs 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:
Responsibilities
• Define and evolve the architecture of Shakepay’s internal developer platform • Design and build foundational infrastructure that supports our growing systems and teams • Lead the development of internal tooling and automation that significantly improves developer productivity • Architect and implement infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices across the platform • Build and evolve observability systems including monitoring, alerting, and dashboards • Design and implement AI-powered internal tools and agentic workflows that automate operational and development tasks • Improve system reliability, scalability, and performance across our production environment • Partner with product and infrastructure teams to drive best practices in system design and operations • Lead technical initiatives that span multiple engineering teams • Mentor engineers and guide technical decision-making through design reviews and architecture discussions • Influence the long-term technical direction of our infrastructure and platform ecosystem • Contribute to incident response and drive improvements to operational resilience
Benefits
• Help shape the future of money: Be part of a team revolutionising financial services in Canada, one sat at a time. • Help shape the future of money: • Impact millions: As cryptocurrency continues gaining traction, our growth potential 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! Our programs 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: • 🤖 AI Enablement: Generous AI token budget (currently unlimited). • AI Enablement: • 🤝 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 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. We will give you a $1,000 bonus if you use all your vacation time. • 🌴 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: • 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.
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