Senior Staff Software Engineer, Coinbase
Backend, Platform - FinHub
CA$252.5k
+ Target bonus + Target equity + Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
The world’s leading exchange for digital currencies
Open for applications
The world’s leading exchange for digital currencies
1001+ employees
Open for applications
CA$252.5k
+ Target bonus + Target equity + Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
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
- 12 + years of experience in backend software engineering using Golang or similar languages
- Domain expertise in FinTech and / or trading
- Proven track record of delivering impactful solutions that power significant fund flows
- You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained high throughput and low latency production services
- You’ve experience in architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
- Strong technical knowledge of building distributed systems that process massive scale
- Solid communication skills, ability to communicate to stakeholders with various technical and non-technical backgrounds
- Relentless drive to set and perseverance to achieve ambitious goals
- Passion for building an open financial system that brings the world together
Desirable
- Practical experience of building ledgering or trading systems at large scale
- Experience both in startups and large enterprises
- 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
- FinHub is at the core of Coinbase, processing and recording fund movements for our clients and our business. We are responsible for processing transactions across crypto, fiat and internal wallet, and managing the assets for our users including providing portfolio performance, user tax optimizations etc.
- With rapid growth of the industry and the company, our scale and complexity of operations quickly surpassed the original design of typical ledgering systems. Currently, we are taking on a challenge to unlock the next level of evolution for fund movements architecture. This is a unique opportunity to redesign foundational systems that will set Coinbase up for success in the next decade
- Design and implement next generation core FinTech systems that power Coinbase
- Interact with stakeholders in many different organizations that build Coinbase products or responsible for financial operations
- Participate in shaping of the strategy and execution path of FinHub
- Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise
- Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards
- Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
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.
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
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 HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
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
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