Senior Fullstack Software Engineer, Coinbase
Developer, CDP API
$180.6-212.5k
+ Target bonus + Target equity
The world’s leading exchange for digital currencies
Open for applications
The world’s leading exchange for digital currencies
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$180.6-212.5k
+ Target bonus + Target equity
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
- 5+ years of experience in both backend and frontend software development
- Mastery of Go and JavaScript; experience with Ruby, TypeScript, Python, and Java is a plus
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with an eye for detail and a passion for clear, comprehensive developer documentation
- Strong understanding of crypto wallets, including key management, cryptography, and blockchain protocols (e.g. EVM)
- Proven track record of designing, developing, and shipping high-quality, ergonomic client-side libraries and SDKs
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and event-driven architectures
- Experience with databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB) and caching systems (Redis, Memcached)
- Solid knowledge of RESTful API design principles and experience with API development and integration
- Familiarity with AWS and containerization technologies like Kubernetes
- Understanding of security best practices and experience with implementing secure coding practices for financial systems
What the job involves
- The Platform API team owns both server-side APIs and client-side libraries across different languages
- The team seeks a full-stack engineer who is passionate about all aspects of excellent developer experiences: authoring clear and informative documentation, building compelling sample applications, interacting directly with customers to incorporate feedback, architecting delightfully simple SDKs, etc
- The engineer must be comfortable operating in both frontend and backend codebases, fluent across a variety of programming languages, and demonstrate both high code velocity and quality simultaneously
- The Platform API team consists of some of the most prolific and tenured software engineers at Coinbase, and is excited to ship a game-changing set of APIs and SDKs at breakneck speed
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performance backend systems for the Platform APIs using Go and Javascript
- Define and maintain clean and conformant HTTP REST API definitions using OpenAPI specifications
- Design, develop, and maintain ergonomic, open-source SDKs to interact with the Platform APIs using Ruby, Typescript, Go, Python, and Java
- Author, publish, and maintain clear and concise documentation, including quickstart and how-to guides, to increase adoption of the Platform APIs and SDKs
- Develop secure and scalable key management systems, packaged as Docker images, to enable crypto wallet functionality across a range of custodial configurations (e.g. self-custodial MPC)
- Work closely with many different teams at Coinbase to externalize their backend services through the Platform APIs, ensuring consistency of concepts, style, and design
- Interface directly with customers to collect their feedback and iteratively improve the Platform APIs and SDKs
- Build compelling sample applications end-to-end using the Platform APIs and SDKs to demonstrate their value and pressure-test the developer experience
- Troubleshoot and debug complex fullstack issues, ensuring stability, reliability, and security
- Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to maintain high code quality standards
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
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 values
- Clear Communication - Share information efficiently, improving collaboration and productivity. Practice active listening while. Being candid and kind
- Positive Energy - Be optimistic about the future and determined to get there. Co-create solutions and work together to get there
- Continuous Learning - We view every situation as an opportunity to learn, We value giving and receiving regular feedback
- Efficient Execution - We complete high quality work quickly by working smarter, not harder. We prefer automation over manual work
- Act like an owner: We take 100% responsibility for achieving the mission. We seek to improve all aspects of our company even in ways that are not explicitly part of our job. We run through brick walls.
- Customer focus: We are deeply focused on solving our customers’ problems with technology, by enabling them to acquire, store and use crypto. We strive to be the easiest to use, most trusted and most secure platform. In every decision we make, we ask, “How does this create more value for our customers?”
- Repeatable innovation: We are builders, leveraging technology to improve the world, constantly shipping ideas vs just discussing them. We know that companies must continually reinvent themselves to avoid stagnation. We have a high tolerance for failure, investing 10% of our resources in venture bets that are uncomfortably ambitious
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Articles
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
People progressing
Joined as a Compliance Analyst, promoted to Compliance Partnerships Senior Associate in 15 months. 2 promotions later, she is now a Financial Crimes & Compliance Manager.
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