Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - International)

Details

Join Coinbase's Country Expansion team to help shape global cryptocurrency adoption and deliver industry-leading customer experiences.

Responsibilities

• Act as the tech lead for the first 6 months, focusing on technical projects and directly contributing to code; transition to managing direct reports after this period.
• Spend at least 25% of your time as a strong individual contributor, driving engineering quality and velocity by being an exemplary practitioner.
• Build high-performance services using Golang and gRPC, and create seamless integrations that elevate Coinbase's customer experience.
• Make diligent architectural decisions and foster a culture of high-quality code and engineering processes.
• Collaborate with Product and cross-functional teams to define strategic product roadmaps and ensure delivery and operation of multi-tenanted, distributed systems at scale.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables with technical expertise.
• Mentor and coach team members on system design techniques and coding standards.
• Write high-quality, well-tested code.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Experience architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact.
• Passion for building an open financial system and belief in the power of crypto and blockchain technology.
• Experience with distributed systems, multi-tenant systems, microservices, and system design.

Nice to haves

• Experience going through rapid company growth (from ~10 to 100s of engineers).
• Experience with blockchain technologies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Base, etc.).
• Experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices.
• Experience with Golang, Protobuf, Docker, MongoDB, Postgres, AWS.
• Experience building financial, high-reliability, or security-sensitive systems.
• Crypto-forward experience, including interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services.

Work model

• Remote-first role but not remote-only; in-person participation is required throughout the year for team and company-wide offsites. #LI-Remote
• The team spans multiple countries across the Americas (except the United States).

Compensation & Benefits

• Pay Range: $217,900—$217,900 CAD (target annual salary). Full-time offers include bonus eligibility, equity eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision).
• Benefits include extended health care, dental, vision, Consult+ (virtual health care), life & accident insurance, disability coverage, ESPP, wellness stipend, mobile/internet reimbursement, connections stipend, learning & development allowance, employee assistance program, travel medical policy, fertility benefits, and generous time off/leave policy.

Additional notes

• Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate onchain experience.
• Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.