Senior Backend Software Engineer, Coinbase
Consumer
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
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase economic freedom for more than 1 billion people.
Role
Who you are
- We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system
- We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up
- We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems
- You have at least 5+ years of experience in software engineering
- You've designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture
- You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
- You're passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together
Desirable
- You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from startup to mid-size)
- You've built growth experiments or A/B tests
- You have experience with Blockchains (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc..)
- You have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices
- You've worked with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Rails, Postgres, MongoDB or Redshift
- You've built financial, high reliability or security systems
- You have Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services
What the job involves
- Coinbase is seeking experienced backend engineers to join our team to build out the next generation of crypto-forward products and features
- 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
- The Consumer Product Group engineers strive to make the Coinbase retail app the easiest-to-use and fastest experience for accessing the crypto
- Wallet is the future of web3 and of Coinbase. Suite of products include: Coinbase app, advance trade, dapps, and staking
- Join Coinbase's Country Expansion team to influence the future of cryptocurrency adoption in the UK
- Collaborate with the Country Director, Product Managers, and cross-functional teams to customize the Coinbase app, tailoring it to the UK market and strategically shaping Coinbase's presence through innovative features and a customer-first approach
- Deliver creative customer facing features to bring 1 billion people on chain
- Articulate a long term vision for maintaining and scaling our backend systems
- Work with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter
- Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
- Actively mentor junior engineers and facilitate their career development
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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