Staff Engineer
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Job Summary
Architect the systems that make crypto tax simple and performance effortless
Were hiring a Staff Engineer to join our Engineering team. The mission of this role is to strengthen our Ruby systems by simplifying complexity improving performance and shaping the architecture that keeps financial data precise and fast.
Koinly is a remote-first and async by design with strong product-market fit in a niche (and booming) domain: crypto you thrive on deep technical work and value autonomy clarity and craft youll fit right in.
Apply below to help build the backbone of large-scale financial systems.
Key details in sum
Location: Remote - preference for Europe-based candidates.
Salary: USD $100K-115k / year.
Contract type: Full-time (B2B contractor).
Perks:
- 32 days of PTO.
- Async culture.
- Flexible work-schedule.
- A culture of high autonomy and ownership.
Start date: ASAP.
Team size: 10 person engineering team.
Main responsibility: Engineer and optimize high-performance Ruby systems that handle billions of financial transactions solving deep scaling data and code-quality challenges.
Why this role exists
As Koinly scales we need our backend systems to stay fast reliable and accurate. This Staff Engineer will provide hands-on technical excellence to optimize reliability and simplify complex pipelines as we scale to billions of transactions.
As a Staff Engineer at Koinly youll stay deeply hands-on while anchoring complex projects guiding technical direction and sharing knowledge that raises the bar for the whole team. We value engineers who think independently stay curious and communicate with clarity. Collaboration here means solving hard problems together giving direct feedback and continuously improving how we build at scale.
What youll do:
- Design and develop scalable backend systems that process billions of financial transactions.
- Provide technical direction across projects and collaborate with product and engineering leads to define priorities and architecture.
- Own project delivery: from design and implementation to performance and reliability in production.
- Refactor and modernize core Ruby systems to improve maintainability readability and speed.
- Mentor other engineers through technical reviews design discussions and clear documentation.
What you bring:
- 7 years of backend experience with Ruby on Rails at scale with at least 2 years as a senior engineer influencing cross-team initiatives.
- Proven record improving system performance and code quality.
- Strong understanding of data flows and software design principles.
- Experience working cross-functionally in async remote environments.
- Clear communication and ownership mindset.
Bonus:
- Experience tuning Postgres in production.
- Built or optimized data ingestion or reconciliation pipelines.
- Open-source contributions to Ruby Rails or performance tooling.
- Background in fintech taxtech open banking or blockchain systems.
Koinlys engineering culture
Craftsmanship matters: we value deep thinking well-structured systems and clean code.
Async-first collaboration: clarity and autonomy come through written communication.
Impact through ownership: engineers drive projects end to end.
Remote: we trust people to work flexibly and deliver excellence from anywhere.
Why join Koinly
Built for builders: A profitable bootstrapped startup in a hyper-growth industry.
Pure Ruby backend: No language sprawl or over-engineering.
Autonomy-first: Async communication deep work minimal meetings.
Massive scale: Billions of trades and 950 integrations.
Small team big impact: Millions of users 37 people company-wide.
No corporate theatre: Zero bureaucracy high trust high ownership.
Flexible by default: Fully remote async and results-oriented.
Crypto-adjacent without the hype: Were a painkiller not a multivitamin.
Join Koinly and design systems of crypto tax at massive scale. Apply today!
Due to the nature of our business and external requirements we perform background checks on all potential team members passing which is a prerequisite to join Koinly.
Key Skills
- Computer Science
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Python
- VMware
- C/C++
- Go
- System Architecture
- gRPC
- OS Kernels
- Perl
- Distributed Systems
About Company
We’re on a mission to simplify crypto taxes and asset tracking.We are one of the fastest-growing crypto tax calculators in the world with solid product–market fit.Trusted and loved: don’t take our word for it,see what our customers say.Used by hundreds of thousands of investors and ac ... View more
