Senior Platform Engineer

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, which allows 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.

About the Platform Team:

The Platform team empowers engineering teams and other functions at Shakepay by providing the tools, infrastructure, and best practices they need to be autonomous, productive, and reliable.

What you’ll do:

• Design, build, and maintain infrastructure that supports Shakepay’s growing platform
• Develop internal tooling and automation that improve developer productivity and operational efficiency
• Implement infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices to manage our systems
• Build and maintain observability systems including monitoring, alerting, and dashboards
• Design and build AI-powered internal tools and agentic workflows that automate tasks and augment engineering productivity
• Improve system reliability, performance, and scalability across our platform
• Collaborate closely with product engineers on infrastructure design and operational best practices
• Participate in incident response and contribute to improving operational processes
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing
• Help shape the technical direction of our infrastructure and developer platform

What we’re looking for:

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps roles
• Strong programming experience (e.g., Go, Python, JavaScript, or similar)
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automated deployment systems
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, reliability, and performance
• Experience improving developer experience through tooling or platform improvements
• Experience building tools or workflows that leverage AI/LLMs to automate tasks or augment developer productivity
• Experience working in highly collaborative engineering teams
• A pragmatic mindset focused on solving real business problems

Perks and benefits:

• AI Enablement: Generous AI token budget (currently unlimited).
• Be an owner - Every employee has stock options as part of their total compensation.
• Reach your goals - Yearly salary assessments.
• Health & wellness: Access to 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.
• Level Up: A $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training to support your career growth.
• Time off: 20 days of vacation per year. We will give you a $1,000 bonus if you use all your vacation time.
• Parental leave: Enjoy a parental leave top-up to 100% of your salary for 18 weeks.
• Have fun together: quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsite to connect with each other.