Senior Backend Software Engineer, Coinbase

• 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 understand testability of systems, and have a good knowledge of testing methodologies and best practices for functional and non-functional requirements, having used and developed them for widely used products
• 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

• The Consumer Product Group builds the sustainable engines of growth for Coinbase that bring open financial services to 1 billion people with products like Advanced Trading, Staking, and Coinbase One
• Consumer product engineers strive to make the Coinbase retail app the easiest-to-use, fastest, and safest experience for everyone across the globe to access and participate in the cryptoeconomy
• These are real-time applications with high frequency, low latency updates, on the most secure, dockerized infrastructure running in the cloud
• Our team focuses on accelerating the development of high quality products by enabling validation of product behaviors at scale through automated test infrastructure
• We are entirely engineering driven, identifying opportunities to build innovative tools and infrastructure to enable developers to test high-fidelity production behaviors during development to enable catching and fixing bugs as early in the development cycle as possible
• We are seeking experienced and dynamic backend Software Engineers to join our Consumer Engineering Test Infrastructure team
• This role is pivotal in developing robust, easy-to-use infrastructure that enable engineers to ship high quality products, and establishing a culture of proactive testing within our organization
• The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing test infrastructure and driving test automation across our services
• Build & Scale Testing Infrastructure – Architect and implement automated testing frameworks from the ground up, enabling teams to validate product behavior faster and more reliably
• Enable Smart Automation – Define strategies to automate testing at every level—unit, integration, and end-to-end—while seamlessly integrating testing into CI/CD pipelines
• Leverage AI/ML for Smarter Testing – Explore and implement novel AI/ML techniques to optimize test execution, detect flaky tests, and enable self-healing automation. Use intelligent anomaly detection to improve test coverage and recovery
• Enhance Developer Productivity – Identify bottlenecks in testing workflows, introduce cutting-edge tools, and create streamlined processes that empower engineers to ship high-quality software with confidence
• Define and Drive Product Quality Metrics – Establish measurable driver and outcome metrics that track test effectiveness, release stability, and developer efficiency. Work cross-functionally to ensure these metrics influence decision-making and improve product quality across the company
• Drive Best Practices & Company-Wide Impact – Partner with teams across the entire tech stack to define and implement scalable testing strategies. Your work will directly influence development speed and product quality across the company