Product Lead (Crypto DeFi) | Remote

Shape the future of crypto tax with a product people actually need.

Koinly helps people do their crypto taxes without losing their minds. The bar is simple to describe and hard to deliver: a user should be able to do their taxes in under 20 minutes.

That only works if the product is correct. Not mostly correct. Correct in the messy corners: LPs bridges aggregators weird fees rounding missing legs and duplicates.

Were hiring a Product Lead who is excited by that kind of complexity and can ship. This is ideal for someone whos strategic technical and passionate about crypto.

Were a fully remote-first async-first startup with product-market fit in a niche (and booming) domain: crypto taxes. If you value autonomy technical excellence and clear communication over meetings and process complexity Koinly is the place for you.

Read on for responsibilities requirements and who we are.

Quick facts

• Scope of role:

  • Delivery operating system

  • Tax completion speed with correctness

  • Data discrepancy reduction

• Team: Product

• Report to: Our Founder/CEO

• Location: Anywhere with a stronger preference for significant overlap with Europte timezones

• Employment: B2B

• Experience level: 5 years as a Product Lead Engineering Lead or SaaS Founder (we care more about evidence than titles).

• Team size: A company of 35 people.

• Visa sponsorship: No

• Recording ID: Calls may be recorded for note taking and ID verification purposes. Formal ID verification required before offer.

Work within one of the most rapidly growing industries in the world

What youll own

Youll own product execution and delivery end-to-end: how features are defined built and shipped working closely with our engineering teams (Core Imports) and Design and our CEO/founder.

In practice that means youll:

• Own the end-to-end flow.

• Own Kanban flow: prioritise the board keep work unblocked and drive day-to-day delivery with engineering.

• Turn messy user problems and edge cases into clear requirements UX flows and acceptance criteria.

• Keep a high bar for quality accuracy and long-term maintainability.

• Reduce data discrepancies (the $1 mismatch kind of work) by partnering with engineering on root-cause fixes.

• Have an eye for UX more than UI: simplify flows and resolve pain points using simple wireframes.

• Participate in on-call / incident involvement when needed (because tax accuracy has real-world consequences).

What success looks like (early)

Within 30-90 days you should:

• Understand the product deeply enough to map the tax in <20 minutes journey and identify the top friction discrepancy blockers.

• Clear understanding of how the team currently works (and where execution gets stuck).

• CEO can hand over meaningful responsibility (product execution delivery decisions) with confidence

This role is a fit if

You have:

• Strong crypto trading DeFi experience

  • If Jupiter Meteora Uniswap LPs bridges and on-chain swaps arent familiar this wont be a fit.

• Strong financial data analysis instincts

  • If hunting down a $1 discrepancy across thousands of transactions sounds unpleasant this wont be a fit.

• A technical product mindset: you can reason about APIs data flows ingestion/transformation and failure modes.

• High attention to detail and a bias toward correctness.

• Experience shipping products 01.

• Experience running execution with dev teams.

• Comfort translating pain points into simple wireframes and practical UX improvements (not UI polish)

• 5 years as a Product Lead Engineering Lead or SaaS Founder (we care more about evidence than titles).

Nice-to-haves

• Comfortable with SQL / data investigation (self-serve debugging is a superpower here).

• Experience with data-heavy ingestion pipelines or reconciliation systems.

Dont tick all of the boxes Neither do we

We are driven by hiring not only by experience and relevance for the role but also by ambition. We celebrate anything outside of the box so if you dont meet all of the listed tickbox criteria please do still apply as wed love to hear from you.

That said there are two hard gates for this role:

• Hands-on DeFi/trading experience. If on-chain swaps LPs bridges (and protocols like Jupiter/Meteora/Uniswap) arent familiar this role wont be a fit.

• A reconciliation mindset. If hunting down a $1 discrepancy across thousands of transactions sounds unpleasant this role wont be a fit.

Why join Koinly

• One of the fastest growing Crypto Tax Calculators in the world with solid product market fit.

• Trusted and loved: see what our customers say on Truspilot.

• Used by hundreds of thousands of investors accountants and a partner to crypto exchanges.

Our users get through their crypto taxes in 20 mins; many will save days or weeks filing their crypto taxes for the first time giving them the confidence to build a portfolio for the long term.

Help us build a product that can impact the world

There are over 300m crypto users worldwide. We are building tools to enable further widespread adoption of cryptocurrency by automating the regulatory hurdles of tax compliance and asset tracking.

Come and shape the future of crypto with us.

Our ambition doesnt stop there. Next the product vision will enable Koinly to empower crypto investors to make the best decisions for their financial future.

How we work

• Remote-first async-first. No standing meetings culture.

• Kanban (continuous delivery).

• A global team across 20 countries.

• High autonomy high ownership high standards.

Contract benefits

• B2B contractor full-time.

• 32 days PTO (incl. holidays; company-wide time off around Christmas/New Year/Easter).

• Equipment budget coworking space budget.

• Flexible schedule (we care about outcomes and communication not clock-watching).

Compensation

Were not publishing a salary bracket because the pool of truly relevant candidates is small and we dont want to filter out strong fits prematurely. We will align on expectations early in the process.

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