Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Institutional Products

Details

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system.

Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of? While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first, we are not remote-only. In-person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment. Attendance is expected and fully supported.

Coinbase is seeking experienced backend engineers to join our team to build out the next generation of crypto-forward products and features. You will solve unique, large scale, highly complex technical problems, bridging the constraints posed by web-scale applications and blockchain technology. You will help build the next generation of systems to make cryptocurrency accessible to everyone across the globe, operating real-time applications with high frequency, low latency updates, and managing the most secure, dockerized infrastructure running in the cloud.

The Institutional Product Group enables the foundations of Coinbase's institutional business supporting thousands of large financial institutions. We enable institutions to custody their digital assets and participate in the crypto economy in a secure and safe way. We take pride in building a scalable & secure crypto platform supporting hundreds of assets and enabling crypto participation with staking, governance and web3 gateways. The team has interesting work on building cutting-edge crypto technologies, scalable infrastructure and UI surfaces across web, mobile and browser extensions in a fast-paced industry with an opportunity to build several new initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Build new services to meet critical product and business needs using Golang.
• Design scalable systems to solve novel problems with modern cloud technology and industry best practices.
• Articulate a long term vision for maintaining and scaling our backend systems and the teams running them.
• Work with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter.
• Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in software engineering.
• Experience designing, building, scaling and maintaining production services, and familiarity with composing a service oriented architecture.
• Ability to write high quality, well tested code.
• Passion for building an open financial system and working with crypto/blockchain technology.

Nice to haves

• Experience going through rapid company growth (startup to mid-size).
• Experience with growth experiments or A/B testing frameworks.
• Experience with blockchain technology (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc.).
• Experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices.
• Experience with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Rails, Postgres, MongoDB or DynamoDB.
• Experience building financial, high reliability or security systems.
• Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services.

Compensation

Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target annual salary for this position can range as detailed below. Full time offers from Coinbase also include target bonus + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).

Pay Range: $186,005 — $218,900 USD

Other information

• Job #: GIBE05US
• Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate your onchain experience.
• #LI-Remote
• Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Global Data Privacy Notice and additional candidate information are provided in the original posting.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision plans
• 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, Fertility counseling and benefits
• Generous time off/leave policy
• The option of getting paid in digital currency