Staff Design Engineer

About Shakepay: Shakepay is a fast, secure, and regulated digital financial services pioneer on an ambitious mission to usher in the Bitcoin golden age across Canada. Launched in 2015 and backed by renowned venture capital networks with over $44M in institutional funding, Shakepay simplifies cryptocurrency accumulation for more than one million Canadians through its intuitive mobile application and rewards-based Shakepay Card ecosystem. By prioritizing financial empowerment, open engineering craft, and transparent wealth-building, Shakepay gives every Canadian their fair shake to take complete control of their digital asset and financial future.

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly autonomous, dual-disciplined, and code-fluent Staff Design Engineer to serve as the ultimate bridge between product design, engineering execution, and UI/UX systems under a permanent, full-time remote configuration open anywhere across Canada. In this design-first, code-heavy product role, you will shift completely away from compiling static un-interactive mockups, non-regulated data transcription logs, or routine administrative files; you will drive an active functional prototyping, front-end system refactoring, and automated interface laboratory. You don’t just map visual components; you build, validate, and ship them directly into live customer channels. This position requires a hybrid engineering authority with extensive experience operating at the precise intersection of pixel-perfect React, TypeScript layouts and production-ready codebases—partnering with core backend squads within fixed-time, variable-scope execution cells.

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-End Product Feature Governance: Claim complete ownership of user features from initial problem discovery and interface wireframing to writing the client-facing React component code and deploying it natively utilizing Frontend development practices.
• Functional Prototyping in Code: Eliminate static canvas files by building performant, responsive code prototypes to validate UX patterns rapidly, minimizing deployment risks via real-world user feedback loops.
• Design System Architecture: Evolve and safeguard our global design system, component libraries, and visual assets across mobile and web platforms to ensure design models and client code repositories stay perfectly synchronized.
• High-Velocity Feature Delivery: Balance speed and technical craft, engineering polished, fault-tolerant user experiences on tight timelines with a deep eye for micro-interactions and layout alignment.
• Cross-Functional Alignment: Collaborate directly with core backend engineers and product leads to balance technical constraints against delightful consumer-facing outcomes.
• Tribe Force Multiplication: Mentor and raise the bar for the broader design organization by helping pure designers ship in code and thoughtfully integrate advanced AI workflow accelerators into daily workflows.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• A minimum of 6–8+ years of proven, successful professional history operating as a Senior Product Designer, Lead Frontend Engineer, Hybrid UI/UX Developer, Staff Design Engineer, or identical cross-disciplinary tech capacity.
• Expert Frontend Code Command: Deep, production-grade technical literacy writing maintainable interface code inside modern single-page environments (specifically React, TypeScript, and Node.js).
• A robust builder’s portfolio displaying live consumer products—proving an ability to translate abstract human problems into fast, maintainable, and highly performant frontend solutions.
• Exceptional visual taste and product intuition, with a demonstrated background engineering interfaces that feel universally simple, accessible, and delightful.
• Outstanding written, verbal, and visual communication strengths in English, with a verified history explaining technical compromises and layout design decisions cleanly to cross-functional engineering leads.
• Location Context: Position operates under remote guidelines open exclusively to qualified full-stack hybrid developers residing permanently within Canada (with option for access to offices in Toronto and Montreal).

Preferred Strategic Indicators (Nice to Have)

• Prior experience or direct platform background engineering digital asset portals, crypto wallets, FinTech architectures, mobile payment processors, or Web3 consumer platforms.
• Familiarity with cross-platform packaging architectures like React Native, specialized mobile design standards, or component testing frameworks.
• Active personal engagement or genuine passion for Bitcoin infrastructure, financial automation, or decentralized monetary systems.

What We Offer

• Top-Tier Canadian Tech Compensation Matrix: A highly competitive annual base salary structure of $190,000+ CAD, supplemented by lucrative corporate stock options, regular yearly salary performance reviews, and multi-tier equity participation.
• 100% remote workspace infrastructure autonomy anywhere within Canada, supported by a yearly $2,000 professional development learning budget.
• Flagship FinTech Ownership: Unique career milestones achieved by directing the user experience architecture for an application relied upon by over a million users to secure their Bitcoin holdings.
• Comprehensive health and wellness preservation benefits, providing premium medical and dental coverage networks backed by custom wellness spending accounts.
• Access to an outstanding vacation package containing 20 days off annually, paired with an extra $1,000 USD holiday bonus if you use all your vacation days, alongside 18 weeks of 100% salary topped-up parental leave and quarterly team off-sites.