Staff Software Engineer, Coinbase

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering
• You’ve experienced architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
• You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together

Desirable

• As a Staff Engineer on the Prime UI Platform Team, you’ll work on the core systems that sit underneath every frontend experience for Coinbase Prime
• This includes shared frontend frameworks and components, performance and reliability, developer tooling, and backend-for-frontend APIs that powers the UI experience
• In this role, you will drive technical architecture decisions that enable frontend teams to build blazingly fast & responsive UIs, and allow our frontend systems to scale reliably and securely
• This includes optimizing our real-time data streams, and improving the UI experience for serving real-time market data and balances/portfolio data
• You will also build developer tools that empower product teams to move with high velocity and ship reliably, quickly, frequently, and safely
• Design, build, and own core UI platform systems used across all frontend surfaces
• Drive improvements in reliability, performance, and latency at the platform level
• Build and evolve backend-for-frontend APIs (REST/GraphQL) that serve our UI surfaces, with focus on scalability, security, and clean abstractions
• Lead architecture and technical directions for improvements to real-time data streams (WebSocket/SSE)
• Partner closely with frontend engineers and product teams to understand scaling pain points, and translate them into platform solutions
• Serve as a technical multiplier: unblock teams, review high-impact changes, mentor other engineers across frontend and product teams
• Enable developer velocity by improving local dev, builds, CI/CD, testing, release pipelines, and observability