DeFi Analyst

Posted:
12/5/2024, 1:14:08 PM

Location(s):
San Francisco, California, United States ⋅ California, United States

Experience Level(s):
Junior ⋅ Mid Level ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Product

Workplace Type:
Remote

Overview

CoinTracker makes cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and tax compliance simple. CoinTracker enables consumers and businesses to seamlessly track their cryptocurrency portfolio, investment performance, taxes, and more. We are a globally distributed team on a mission to enable everyone in the world to use crypto with peace of mind. Learn more about our mission, culture, and hiring process.


Some things we’re proud of

  • 🛠️ Building foundational tools in the cryptocurrency space

  • 📄 Over 1M tax forms generated

  • 💲 $80B+ in cryptocurrency is tracked on CoinTracker (~over 5% of the entire crypto market)

  • 🤝 Partnered with Coinbase, H&R Block, Intuit TurboTax, MetaMask, OpenSea, Phantom, Solana, and Uniswap

  • 🗺️ Founders: Jon previously built TextNow (200M downloads), Chandan was previously a product manager at Google & Google[x]

  • 💼 $100M+ venture capital raised from Accel, General Catalyst, Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Kraken Ventures, Intuit Ventures, 776 Ventures, Balaji Srinivasan, Claire Hughes Johnson, Gokul Rajaram, Serena Williams, Zach Perret

  • 🌴 Awesome benefits

Your mission

Join our tight-knit, early-stage distributed team that thrives on interesting technical challenges and building magical products that improve peoples' lives. As a Visual / Brand Designer at CoinTracker, you’ll have a crucial impact on our brand presence and identity, especially as we prepare for our busiest time of year. Working with cross-functional teams and our marketing external marketing agency, you’ll translate brand guidelines into powerful visual assets for marketing campaigns, social media, in-product banners, and more. Your designs will enhance the CoinTracker experience for millions of users and create a cohesive, memorable brand across all our channels.

One year outcomes

  • >90% of DeFi transactions across all supported blockchains automatically have the correct category applied

  • Design and propose a scalable system of rules to track DeFi positions in CoinTracker’s portfolio solution with coverage of the top dapps for each supported blockchain

What you will do

  • Proactively identify the top dapps and smart contracts that users are interacting with and add support for those dapps to automatically categorize transactions in CoinTracker

  • Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to prioritize improvements to enhance tax accuracy for various DeFi scenarios

  • Design a system of rules to track DeFi (staking, lending, liquidity pools, etc) positions accurately on user portfolios

What we look for

Role-agnostic

  • Impact: Demonstrated ability to drive business impact

  • Mission alignment: Hungry and motivated about making progress towards our mission of Enabling everyone in the world to use crypto with peace of mind.

  • Trust: Say what you believe. Do what you say.

  • Communication: Able to clearly talk about the details and also zoom out to the bigger picture

Role-specific

  • Onchain expertise: Ability to view complex transactions on a block explorer (Etherscan and Solscan) and translate them into a clear story (what did the user do?)

    • Familiarity with EVM

    • Familiarity with Solana

    • Familiarity with 1 other smart contract compatible blockchain (not required, nice to have)

  • Problem-solving: Ability to use our current DeFi coverage tools to solve a variety of DeFi use cases. For situations that cannot be solved by current tooling, the candidate should be able to propose specific product improvements that will unlock additional use cases.

  • Data analytics: Ability to analyze onchain data with analytics tools such as Dune and/or Flipside

    • Familiarity with a query language (SQL, postgreSQL, Dune SQL, etc.)