Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Financial Hub

πŸ“ United States
USD 186,100-218,900 per year
SENIOR
βœ… Hybrid

SCRAPED

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences ?

Security @ 4 Software Development @ 6 Docker @ 4 Ruby @ 4 A/B Testing @ 4 Distributed Systems @ 6 MongoDB @ 4 Microservices @ 4 API @ 4 Ethereum @ 4

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.

Responsibilities

  • Build scalable systems and components, making tradeoffs for stability and long-term maintainability.
  • Design, write, test, and release product-facing features with stringent correctness and scalability requirements.
  • Collaborate with frontend and data teams to fine tune REST APIs supporting millions of customers.
  • Mentor junior developers on the team and lead large complexity projects.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software development experience, especially in performant, large scale distributed systems.
  • Familiarity with writing highly concurrent systems and strong REST API design intuition.
  • Proven experience on large projects with long-term impact on a system or team.
  • Strong technical judgment and ability to prioritize tasks well.
  • Ability to solve complex engineering problems aligned with team objectives.
  • Capability to mentor junior developers and technically lead new initiatives and system improvements.

Nice to Haves

  • Experience with company growth from startup to mid-size.
  • Experience with growth experiments or A/B testing frameworks.
  • Experience with Blockchain technologies like Bitcoin, Ethereum.
  • Experience decomposing monolith projects into microservices.
  • Experience with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Rails, Postgres, MongoDB, or DynamoDB.
  • Experience building financial, high reliability, or security systems.
  • Crypto-forward experience including onchain interactions with Ethereum, ENS, dApps, or blockchain services.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Role operates in a hybrid setting with required in-person participation throughout the year.
  • Highly intense work culture focused on excellence and collaboration.
  • Pay transparency: $186,065 to $218,900 USD annual salary plus target bonus, equity, and benefits.