Staff Fullstack Software Engineer, Coinbase
Developer - Onchain Payments
$211.7-249k
+ Target bonus + target equity
The world’s leading exchange for digital currencies
Open for applications
The world’s leading exchange for digital currencies
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$211.7-249k
+ Target bonus + target equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
Their mission is to create an open financial system for the world and to be the leading global brand for helping people convert digital currency into and out of their local currency.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in software development with a strong focus on fullstack development; 2+ years of experience in a leadership position of a crypto start-up is a plus
- Mastery of Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Solidity; familiarity with Ruby is a plus
- Proven track record of rapidly shipping high-quality fullstack systems
- Deep understanding of Ethereum and EVM-compatible chains and experience with developing smart contracts
- Demonstrated commitment to excellent developer experiences and open source code, especially in relation to crypto and payments
- Strong expertise in frontend development using modern frameworks like React, Next.js, and Angular
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and event-driven architectures, including experience with databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB), caching systems (Redis, Memcached), and message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Experience with developer operations, including Cloud providers such as AWS and containerization technologies such as Kubernetes
- Deep understanding of web security best practices and experience with implementing secure coding practices for financial systems
- Exceptional problem-solving skills and ability to find elegant solutions to complex challenges in the crypto payment processing domain
- Outstanding communication, leadership, and collaboration skills, with the ability to inspire and mentor teams
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
What the job involves
- This role is for Coinbase Commerce, a powerful payment processing platform that enables merchants to securely accept crypto payments
- With its user-friendly interface and seamless integration capabilities, Coinbase Commerce simplifies the process of incorporating digital currencies into online businesses using Shopify, WooCommerce or other platforms like Farcaster to expand their reach to a global customer base
- Lead the design, development, and maintenance of scalable, secure, and high-performance fullstack systems for Coinbase Commerce using Ruby, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Solidity
- Drive the technical vision and strategy for Coinbase Commerce, ensuring alignment with business goals and industry best practices
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and prioritize features, improvements, and integrations that drive the growth and success of Coinbase Commerce
- Develop and optimize smart contracts using Solidity for EVM-compatible blockchains to enable seamless crypto payment processing
- Design and implement highly interactive, responsive, and user-friendly frontend interfaces using modern frameworks like React or Angular
- Optimize frontend and backend performance, ensuring fast transaction processing, smooth UI interactions, and efficient resource utilization
- Architect and implement secure, reliable, and well-documented APIs for Coinbase Commerce
- Troubleshoot and debug complex fullstack issues, ensuring platform stability, reliability, and security
- Drive the adoption of best practices in software development, testing, and deployment, and contribute to the continuous improvement of our engineering processes
- Provide technical guidance and support to other engineering teams, and contribute to the overall technical direction of Coinbase
Our take
Coinbase allows its users to create their own crypto wallets and start buying or selling cryptocurrencies by connecting with their bank accounts. It also provides a series of merchant payment processing systems and tools that support transactions with many popular websites.
Coinbase has recently made a big push to broaden its services away from consumers and they want to cater services from institutional investors.
Coinbase currently offers one of the largest selection of cryptocurrency assets - over 10,000 but does not allow trading on all of them. The company wisely keeps such offerings to the most stable assets however, the list is always expanding. Coinbase see a much wider adoption of cryptocurrency and tokens in the future, and plan to expand potentially to millions in the future. It speaks volumes to Coinbase's goals of wider global adoption that former UK Finance Minister George Osborne is now an Advisor at the company.
Coinbase's lofty ambitions paid off in it being the first crypto listing on the NASDAQ. The company has weathered several bull and bear runs in the cryptocurrency industry through diversification of its offerings, including wallet-as-a-service technology for crypto platforms, and has acquired healthy coffers of cryptocurrency assets. The aim is to eventually operate independently of the volatility surrounding cryptocurrencies.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Oct 2018
$300m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Oct 2018
$108.1m
SERIES D
Total funding: $633.4m
Company benefits
- 12 weeks maternity/paternity leave
- Vision and dental care
- Commuter benefits
- Learning and development budget
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Clear Communication - Share information efficiently, improving collaboration and productivity. Practice active listening while. Being candid and kind
- Positive Energy - Be optimistic about the future and determined to get there. Co-create solutions and work together to get there
- Continuous Learning - We view every situation as an opportunity to learn, We value giving and receiving regular feedback
- Efficient Execution - We complete high quality work quickly by working smarter, not harder. We prefer automation over manual work
- Act like an owner: We take 100% responsibility for achieving the mission. We seek to improve all aspects of our company even in ways that are not explicitly part of our job. We run through brick walls.
- Customer focus: We are deeply focused on solving our customers’ problems with technology, by enabling them to acquire, store and use crypto. We strive to be the easiest to use, most trusted and most secure platform. In every decision we make, we ask, “How does this create more value for our customers?”
- Repeatable innovation: We are builders, leveraging technology to improve the world, constantly shipping ideas vs just discussing them. We know that companies must continually reinvent themselves to avoid stagnation. We have a high tolerance for failure, investing 10% of our resources in venture bets that are uncomfortably ambitious
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Brian Armstrong
(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
People progressing
Joined as a Compliance Analyst, promoted to Compliance Partnerships Senior Associate in 15 months. 2 promotions later, she is now a Financial Crimes & Compliance Manager.
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