Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Financial Hub
at Coinbase
π United States
USD 186,100-218,900 per year
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 @ 4Details
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.