Legal Counsel

About the Role

Join Shakepay's collaborative legal team as a Legal Counsel, where you'll advise on complex, novel issues at the frontier of fintech and crypto. This is an exciting opportunity to directly influence how millions of Canadians interact with bitcoin and shape legal frameworks for transformative technologies.

Responsibilities

• Partner with teams across Shakepay to provide practical, actionable legal advice that helps the business move fast while staying compliant.
• Review, draft and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements.
• Monitor and interpret evolving regulations in financial services, privacy and crypto — and turn them into opportunity.
• Collaborate on new products and features, identifying legal risks early and crafting creative, business-oriented solutions.
• Build scalable processes to make legal work more efficient and impactful.
• Work closely with regulators and external counsel when needed.
• Grow fast, with mentorship from senior leadership and exposure to a wide variety of legal and strategic challenges.

Requirements

• LL.B. or J.D. and active membership in a Canadian provincial bar.
• 4+ years of legal experience (law firm or in-house).
• Strong commercial and corporate law foundation, especially in contracts and negotiations.
• Excellent judgment, communication and problem-solving skills.
• A proactive, adaptable and entrepreneurial mindset.
• Genuine curiosity about fintech, crypto and technology’s impact on financial services.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience in fintech, crypto, or financial services.
• Experience in fast-growing or startup environments.
• Fluency in French.