Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Growth)

Details

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world by building the emerging onchain platform and the future global financial system. The Growth organization focuses on bringing the world onchain by building growth tools such as referral and incentives programs, notifications systems, logged-out web experiences, and optimized new user onboarding.

This role is remote-first but not remote-only: in-person participation is required throughout the year (team and company offsites are held multiple times annually).

Responsibilities

• Build and run experiments to power the growth of Coinbase’s retail products.
• Design scalable systems to solve novel problems using modern cloud technologies and industry best practices.
• Articulate a long-term vision for maintaining and scaling backend systems and the teams running them.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers, and senior leadership to turn product and technical vision into a quarterly roadmap.
• Write high-quality, well-tested code to meet customer needs.
• Operate real-time applications with high frequency, low latency updates and manage secure cloud infrastructure.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience in software engineering.
• Experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services; knowledge of composing a service-oriented architecture.
• Strong emphasis on writing high-quality, well-tested code.
• Passion for building an open financial system and familiarity with crypto and blockchain concepts is desirable.

Nice to haves

• Experience launching new products from 0 to 1.
• Experience with growth experiments or A/B testing frameworks.
• Experience with blockchain technologies (e.g., Bitcoin, Ethereum) and onchain activity (interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, engaging with dApps).
• Experience with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Rails, Postgres, MongoDB, or DynamoDB.
• Experience building fintech, highly reliable, and/or secure systems.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plans with generous employee contributions.
• Health Savings Account with company contributions each pay period.
• Disability and life insurance.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Wellness stipend, mobile/internet reimbursement, connections stipend.
• Volunteer time off, fertility counseling and benefits.
• Generous time off / leave policy.
• Option to get paid in digital currency.

Additional details

• Job #: GCBE05US
• Pay Range: $186,005 — $218,900 USD (target annual salary; full-time offers also include target bonus, target equity, and benefits).
• Coinbase pilots some AI tools (e.g., interview simulation, BrightHire) for select roles; any use and specifics will be communicated to candidates.
• Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate onchain experience.
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