Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Growth)

Details

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. We are building the emerging onchain platform and the future global financial system. The Growth organization drives Coinbase’s mission of bringing the world onchain by building growth tools across referral and incentives programs, notifications, logged-out web experiences, and new user onboarding flows.

This role will partner with engineering leadership, EMs, and Product Managers to improve incentives infrastructure and build foundational systems and primitives to drive growth at Coinbase. You will solve large-scale, highly complex technical problems that bridge web-scale applications and blockchain technology, operating real-time applications with high frequency, low latency updates, and managing secure cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Head of Growth Engineering (Sr. Director of Eng), EMs, and Product Managers to improve incentives infrastructure, primitives, and scale up spend/profitability with high reliability and confidence.
• Build foundational systems and primitives to drive growth across Coinbase’s consumer product.
• Solve unique, large-scale technical challenges that combine web-scale constraints with blockchain systems.
• Drive quality and performance across complex systems at scale, including defining and improving relevant metrics and SLOs.
• Lead multi-quarter roadmaps with complex dependencies across teams and organizations.
• Provide horizontal technical leadership across multiple teams, influencing architecture, observability, and operational practices.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, infrastructure, and ML teams to integrate capabilities into growth experiences.

Requirements

• Strong track record of technical leadership across multiple teams or a larger organization.
• Experience driving multi-quarter roadmaps and coordinating complex dependencies.
• Experience building and operating web-scale systems with attention to quality, performance, and SLO-driven engineering.
• Comfort working with real-time, high-frequency, low-latency applications and secure cloud infrastructure.
• Passion for crypto and blockchain technology and belief in the mission of making cryptocurrency accessible globally.
• Ability to partner cross-functionally with Product Managers and other stakeholders to deliver impact.

Nice to haves

• Experience in consumer or growth-focused engineering (referrals, incentives, onboarding, notifications).
• Experience working with machine learning directly or via APIs (online/offline model evaluation techniques).
• Strong cross-functional partnership skills spanning incentives experience and infrastructure pods.

Work arrangement

• Coinbase is remote-first but not remote-only. In-person participation is required throughout the year; team and company offsites are held multiple times annually and attendance is expected and supported.

Pay and other details

• Pay Range: $260,100—$260,100 CAD (target annual salary). Full-time offers also include bonus eligibility, equity eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision).
• Job ID: GCBE07CA

Benefits

• Extended health care (coordinates with provincial coverage), dental, vision
• Consult+ (virtual health care)
• Life & accident insurance, disability coverage
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Wellness stipend, mobile/internet reimbursement, connections stipend
• Learning and development allowance
• Employee assistance program, travel medical policy
• Fertility benefits, generous time off/leave policy

Commitment to equal opportunity & privacy

• Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Candidate data processing practices vary by location and are outlined in the Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates and Applicants.

AI disclosure

• Coinbase may pilot ML-based tools for initial screening interviews and interview intelligence, but these pilots will not be used to make final employment decisions.