Senior Backend Software Engineer, Coinbase

• 5+ years of software development experience with experience writing performant, large scale distributed systems
• Familiarity with writing highly concurrent systems and good intuition for REST API design
• Proven experience working on large projects with long-term impact on a single system or team
• Strong technical grasp with excellent judgment on task prioritizations
• Ability to solve complex engineering problems that deliver results aligned with team objectives
• Ability to mentor junior developers and lead the team technically on new initiatives and system improvements

Desirable

• 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
• Build scalable systems and components, making the right tradeoffs to account for stability and long-term maintainability
• Design, write, test, and release product-facing features with stringent correctness and scalability requirements
• Collaborate with our frontend and data teams to fine tune our REST APIs supporting millions of customers
• Mentor junior developers on the team and lead project of large complexity