Software Engineer, Coinbase
$152.4-179.3k
Total compensation also includes equity and bonus eligibility
The world’s leading exchange for digital currencies
Be an early applicant
The world’s leading exchange for digital currencies
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$152.4-179.3k
Total compensation also includes equity and bonus eligibility
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 software engineering experience and experience with building large scale backend systems
- Showcase strong proficiency within a modern tech stack, like Go for languages and gRPC for communication
- Experience building shared libraries, frameworks for large organizations
- Have experience refactoring legacy codebases, isolating and decommissioning unused logic
- Ability to hold a high bar for quality, are a self starter, and have strong interpersonal skills
- Strong problem solving skills and ability to identify problems, determine their root cause, and see them through to solution
- Ability to balance business needs with technical solutions
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Software Engineer to join the Server Foundations team within Developer Experience. The team is responsible for empowering efficiency through foundational excellence. Our vision is to enable Coinbase backend engineering towards a future of rapid progress
- We’re currently focused on revitalizing Coinbase's software development framework and other application server components, shared libraries etc. that will enable engineers to launch an application in a development environment within minutes
- Design, build, and maintain software development framework and other shared libraries for Coinbase’s backend engineers
- Implement customer-focused abstractions that simplify and standardize the way we offer features
- Responsible for the performance, automation and standardization of gRPC services
- Learn and continue to foster an understanding of the long-term needs of our backend engineering infrastructure
- Contribute to technical decisions providing design justification, coordination, and collaboration with other teams in the organization
- Communicate to gather requirements for backend development framework offerings and capabilities, and to understand gaps and improvements
- Produce professional documentation and diagrams to clearly and concisely communicate concepts and architectures to infrastructure colleagues, in addition to our users
- Manage and assist in the resolution of complicated technical problems and incidents, provide appropriate communication and escalation
- Support and maintain our current infrastructure offerings to maintain a high level of service and availability to the rest of the organization
- Develop strong and effective working relationships with the rest of the Infrastructure organization, Security, business partners, stakeholders and vendors
- Keep up to date with current developments and best practices within our domain and make bold and forward-looking recommendations
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 10 rounds)
Oct 2018
$300m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Oct 2018
$108.1m
SERIES D
Total funding: $636.6m
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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