Staff Backend Software Engineer, Coinbase
Consumer, International
CA$217.9k
Plus bonus eligibility
The world’s leading exchange for digital currencies
Job no longer available
The world’s leading exchange for digital currencies
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
CA$217.9k
Plus bonus eligibility
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase economic freedom for more than 1 billion people.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from 10 to 100s of engineers)
- You have experience with Blockchain technology (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Base etc..)
- You have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices
- You’ve worked with Golang, Protobuf, Docker, MongoDB, Postgres, AWS
- You’ve built financial, high reliability or security systems
- 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
- As the Tech Lead Manager for a team that spans multiple countries across Americas (except US), you will partner with Country Directors, Product Managers, Customer Support and be responsible for ensuring delivery of growth initiatives in strategic markets for Coinbase
- This is an exciting and unique opportunity to be at the forefront of Coinbase's intensified focus on international growth
- You will have a direct impact on making Coinbase the best cryptocurrency platform. In this role, you will help create the industry-leading standard for customer experience in the crypto space
- The Country Expansion team prides itself on being innovative and customer-centric. It is an A-team where you can fuel your passion for building world-class products that ignite cryptocurrency adoption worldwide
- For the first 6 months, you will act as the tech lead, focusing on technical projects and directly contributing to code. Following this period, you will transition to managing direct reports
- Spend at least 25% of your time being a strong individual contributor, driving the engineering quality and velocity of the team by being an exemplary practitioner
- Build high-performance services using Golang and gRPC, creating seamless integrations that elevate Coinbase's customer experience
- Be a thoughtful technical voice within the team, aiding in diligent architectural decisions and fostering a culture of high-quality code and engineering processes. Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to ensure successful delivery and operation of multi-tenanted, distributed systems at scale
- Partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders to define strategic product roadmaps and make direct impacts on Coinbase’s international expansion
- Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise
- Mentor and coach team members on system design techniques and coding standards
- Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
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 9 rounds)
Oct 2018
$300m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Aug 2017
$108.1m
SERIES D
Total funding: $528.5m
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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