Backend Software Engineer, Coinbase
Institutional Products
+ ESPP
The world’s leading exchange for digital currencies
Job no longer available
The world’s leading exchange for digital currencies
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
+ ESPP
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase economic freedom for more than 1 billion people.
Role
Who you are
- You have at least 2 years of experience in software engineering
- You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
- You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture
- You have experience executing technical tasks and projects end-to-end
- You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together
- You're an excellent written and verbal communicator in English
Desirable
- You have previous professional working experience with Golang, Postgres, MongoDB
- You’ve built financial, high reliability or security systems
- You have experience with Coinbase products and/or you have experience with Blockchains (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc..)
- You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from startup to mid-size)
- You have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices
- You are passionate about blockchain technology and a power user of crypto exchange applications or dapps
What the job involves
- Coinbase is seeking a skilled Backend Engineer to join the Institutional Foundations team
- This role offers the opportunity to build and scale systems that are critical to the success of Coinbase Institutional, directly impacting global availability, fund safety, and user experience
- You'll collaborate with a talented team to create highly reliable and secure solutions, ensuring a seamless experience for Coinbase's institutional clients
- As an engineer at Coinbase, 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
- You will build new services to meet critical product and business needs using Golang for our Card Program
- You will help articulate a long term vision for maintaining and scaling Coinbase Institutional's backend systems
- You will work with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to turn the product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter
- You will independently take ownership over the completion and quality of your tasks and projects and write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
- Show bias for action, and data-driven decisions to experiment new solutions as fast as possible
Our take
Coinbase has built a reputation as one of the most accessible entry points into the world of cryptocurrency. With features like crypto wallets, direct bank account linking, and merchant payment tools, it's helping bring crypto into the mainstream. But the company isn't just relying on its early success, it's evolving fast to stay relevant in a rapidly changing market.
Lately, its doubled down on its focus on institutional clients, now serving as the custodian for the majority of approved Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs, and its Prime platform offers a full suite of services for hedge funds, asset managers, and financial institutions. As demand for regulated crypto products rise globally (particularly in Asia), Coinbase is ready to expand.
And it's even making moves to engage with younger audiences, having recently partnered with Riot Games to sponsor global eSports events for League of Legends and Valorant. This multi-year deal, commencing with the Valorant Masters in Toronto and the MSI 2025 tournament in Vancouver. This partnership highlights Coinbase's strategy to integrate Web3 technologies into mainstream entertainment, aiming to bridge the gap between gaming and cryptocurrency for a new generation of users.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Oct 2018
$300m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Oct 2018
$108.1m
SERIES D
Total funding: $633.4m
Leadership
Brian Armstrong
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously founded UniversityTutor.com, also worked as a Software Engineer at AirBnb
Alessia Haas
(CFO)Previously held various head positions, including VP at GE Healthcare, Director at Merrill Lynch and CFO at CIT Bank and Oz Management
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