Engineering Manager (Consumer - Growth)

Details

Coinbase is hiring for an Engineering Manager on the Growth organization to help bring the world onchain by building and leveraging growth tools (referral and incentives programs, notifications, logged-out web experience, new user onboarding) and optimizing the experience across web and mobile. This role requires strong technical judgement, hands-on experience with production services at scale, and the ability to recruit, coach, and grow high-performing full-stack engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage full-stack engineering teams focused on features, services, and infrastructure across both web and mobile.
• Coach direct reports to increase their impact and support their career growth.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers, and senior leadership to produce quarterly roadmaps and translate vision into execution.
• Break down complex projects into iterative pieces and lead design and implementation efforts.
• Serve as a technical voice within the team, contribute to architectural decisions, and foster high-quality code and engineering processes.
• Ensure successful delivery and operation of multi-tenanted, distributed systems at scale, including SLAs and engineering quality processes.
• Participate in recruiting and hiring efforts to identify engineers who align with Coinbase culture.
• Be hands-on when needed: write/review code or technical docs, participate in on-call rotations, lead incidents, and triage bugs.
• Work closely with product and design to deliver best-in-class product experiences and translate ideas into high-value features.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience in software engineering, especially with web-scale traffic.
• At least 2 years of engineering management experience.
• Strong understanding of high-quality code and effective engineering processes.
• Execution-focused mindset, able to navigate ambiguity and deliver results.
• Ability to balance long-term strategy with short-term planning.
• Experience creating, delivering, and operating multi-tenanted, distributed systems at scale.
• Willingness and ability to be hands-on (coding, on-call, incident leadership, troubleshooting).
• Experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services over time.
• High bar for product excellence and strong emphasis on observability.
• Passion for building an open financial system and interest in crypto/blockchain technologies.

Nice to haves

• Growth engineering experience.
• Active trading of crypto or other financial instruments.
• Experience scaling rapidly (startup -> mid-size growth).
• Experience upgrading legacy systems or re-architecting next-generation systems.

Benefits

• Bonus eligibility, equity eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).
• Health Savings Account with company contributions.
• Disability and life insurance.
• Wellness, connections, mobile/internet reimbursement stipends.
• Volunteer time off, fertility counseling and benefits, generous time off/leave policy.
• Option to get paid in digital currency.

Location & Working Model

• #LI-Remote; Coinbase is remote-first but not remote-only. In-person participation is required throughout the year (team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually). Attendance at these events is expected and supported.

Pay Range

• Target annual salary: $218,025 — $256,500 USD (offers also include bonus + equity + benefits).

Other notes

• Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate onchain experience.
• Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.