Software Engineer, Backend (Institutional - Foundations)

Details

Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of?

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.

This role sits on the Institutional product group (Foundations) that supports Coinbase’s institutional business — enabling custody, staking, governance and web3 gateways for institutions. You will work on large-scale, high-frequency, low-latency real-time applications and secure, dockerized cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Decompose a monolithic Rails application into microservices.
• Articulate a long-term vision for maintaining and scaling backend systems.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to translate product and technical vision into quarterly roadmaps.
• Write high-quality, well-tested production code to meet customer needs.
• Solve large-scale, highly complex technical problems at the intersection of web-scale applications and blockchain technology.

Requirements

• At least 2+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Experience designing, building, scaling and maintaining production services.
• Knowledge of composing a service-oriented architecture (microservices).
• Ability to write high-quality, well-tested code.
• Passion for building an open financial system and working with crypto and blockchain technologies.

Nice to Haves

• Experience through rapid company growth (startup → mid-size).
• Experience building growth experiments or A/B tests.
• Experience with blockchains (Bitcoin, Ethereum).
• Experience decomposing large monoliths into microservices.
• Experience with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Sinatra, Rails, Postgres, MongoDB or Redshift.
• Experience building financial, high-reliability or security-focused systems.
• Crypto-forward experience (onchain activity, interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services).

Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate your onchain experience.

Working Model

Coinbase is remote-first but not remote-only; in-person participation is required throughout the year for team and company-wide offsites. Attendance at those events is expected and supported.

Pay & Compensation

Pay Range: 152,405 — 179,300 USD (target annual salary). Full-time offers also include target bonus, target equity and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).

Benefits

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

Other

• Job #: GIBE04US
• Coinbase is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.
• Global data privacy notices and AI disclosure information apply as described by Coinbase.