Staff Product Designer - future opportunities

The role

This person will own product features end-to-end by designing experiences and writing front-end code. They will use code to prototype, evolve design systems, and help the design team integrate AI tools.

What you will do

• Take full ownership of product features from problem understanding to shipping code
• Replace static mockups with functional prototypes in code
• Partner with backend and core engineering in a fixed-time, variable-scope environment
• Deliver polished, production-ready experiences on tight timelines
• Evolve design systems and component libraries for mobile and web
• Help designers ship in code and integrate AI tools into workflows

Required qualifications

• Shipped real products owning both design and code implementation (e.g. React, Typescript, Node, Vue.js etc.)
• Portfolio of live products showing designed and built experiences
• Deep technical understanding of modern front-end development constraints and possibilities
• Ability to define problems and drive work to completion with minimal oversight
• Excellent communication skills to articulate design decisions and technical trade-offs
• Passion for Bitcoin, financial empowerment, and the future of money
• Fluency in English

Nice to have

• Use of AI tools to prototype, iterate, and accelerate workflow

Benefits

• Stock options for every employee
• Yearly salary assessments
• Comprehensive health and dental coverage including health and wellness spending accounts
• $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training
• 20 days of vacation per year
• $1,000 bonus if all vacation is used
• Parental leave top up to 100% of salary for 18 weeks
• Quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsite

About the company

Shakepay has been building an app to make buying and earning bitcoin fast, easy, and secure since 2015. The company is regulated across all Canadian provinces and territories.