Staff Platform Engineer – Developer Experience

At Shakepay, we’re on a mission to usher in the Bitcoin golden age. We’re reimagining financial services to give every Canadian their fair shake.

Our culture is built around doing work that matters, winning as a team, and celebrating success. If you’re the kind of person who values growth, shipping fast, and sharing your ideas openly with a group of like-minded people, come and build with us!

About Shakepay

Since 2015, we’ve been building the Shakepay app to make buying and earning bitcoin fast, easy, and secure. In 2022, we launched the Shakepay Card, allowing shakers to earn bitcoin rewards when they shop. Today, more than one million Canadians use Shakepay to grow their bitcoin savings and take control of their financial future.

We’re regulated across all Canadian provinces and territories, and backed by renowned venture capitalists with a funding of $44M. We have a passionate, loyal, and growing community, and we’re looking for people who want to help us build something truly special.

About the Platform Team

Our platform team empowers other engineering teams by providing the tools and practices they need to be autonomous.

Our team’s mission and responsibilities are:

• 🚀 Developer Enablement: Build and own tools and platforms that empower engineers to develop, test, and ship high-quality code quickly and confidently.
• 🌐 System Scalability & Reliability: Evolve and maintain robust systems that scale with our growth, ensuring seamless and reliable developer workflows.
• 🔧 Architecture & Technical Excellence: Drive architectural improvements and implement best practices that optimise performance, scalability, and maintainability, enabling developers to build confidently and efficiently.
• 🤖 Quality, Automation & Observability: Automate processes to streamline workflows, improve developer insights with observability, and embed quality as a core principle throughout the development lifecycle.

As a Staff Platform Engineer with developer Experience, your mission is to empower developers by reducing friction in the development process. You’ll drive significant improvements in engineering velocity, reliability, and quality, fostering a culture of technical excellence and productivity. This is a hands-on role where you’ll build tools, lead initiatives, and collaborate closely with engineers across teams to create a seamless and efficient development experience.

What you’ll be doing

• Drive technical vision and strategy for developer experience, influencing multiple teams and systems.
• Architect and implement foundational tools that scale Shakepay’s engineering productivity and reliability.
• Identify and lead high-impact initiatives to streamline the developer workflow, improving DORA and other key engineering metrics.
• Act as a mentor and thought leader, elevating the engineering culture and coaching senior engineers.
• Participate in and help improve the on-call process, ensuring sustainable and effective incident response practices.

Who we’re looking for

• 8+ years of hands-on software development experience in a Developer Experience, Platform, or DevOps role.
• Proven ability to design and implement developer tooling, automation frameworks, and internal platforms that improve engineering velocity.
• Deep architectural knowledge of CI/CD, GitOps, infrastructure as code (IaC), and modern developer workflows—emphasising writing high-quality code.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to work across the stack (e.g., backend services, build systems, IDE integrations).
• Experience with incident management and on-call rotations, ensuring a culture of operational excellence and reliability.
• Passion for removing friction in the development process and writing code that enables other engineers to ship faster and more confidently.

Bonus points

• Experience with technologies like Kubernetes, SQS, Datadog, AWS Cloud (Aurora, EKS, VPC, Lambdas), PostgreSQL, Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm, and Node.js.
• Background in building FinTech infrastructure or understanding the unique challenges in this space.
• Passion for improving internal developer documentation and knowledge sharing.
• Familiarity with Bitcoin and excitement to learn more.
• A curated folder of Safe-for-Work reaction memes to keep the team laughing.

Why join

• Help shape the future of money: Be part of a team that’s revolutionizing financial services in Canada, one sat at a time.
• 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.
• Grow your career: We’re growing, and so can you! We have programs in place to encourage continuous learning, growth, and development.
• Ideas, not titles: We want the best ideas to make their way through, no matter where they come from.

Perks and benefits

• Competitive compensation and stock options: Get rewarded with competitive pay and join our employee stock option plan.
• Health benefits from day 1: Access to comprehensive health and dental coverage, including health and wellness spending accounts.
• Remote-friendly: Work from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to our office spaces in Montreal and Toronto.
• Learning and development: A $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training to support your career growth.
• Time off: 20 days of vacation per year. And if you use all your vacation, we give you a $1,000 bonus.
• Parental leave: Enjoy a parental leave top up to 100% of your salary for 18 weeks.
• Home office setup: A MacBook, a $1,200 budget for home office improvements, and a monthly stipend for home and internet expenses.
• Salary in bitcoin option: Choose to receive your salary in bitcoin – the soundest money to ever exist.
• Team and company offsites: Whether team-specific or company-wide, these events offer a great chance to connect and collaborate in person.

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 thata 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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