Software Engineer, Coinbase

Backend, Consumer Products

Salary not provided

+ Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

MongoDB

Docker

Postgres

Ruby

Redshift

Sinatra

Rails

Golang

Junior and Mid level

Remote from UK

The world’s leading exchange for digital currencies

Open for applications

The world’s leading exchange for digital currencies

1001+ employees

FintechB2CB2BCryptocurrencySaaS

Open for applications

Salary not provided

+ Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

MongoDB

Docker

Postgres

Ruby

Redshift

Sinatra

Rails

Golang

Junior and Mid level

Remote from UK

1001+ employees

FintechB2CB2BCryptocurrencySaaS

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.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

You have at least 2+ years of experience in software engineering
You've designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture
You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
You're passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together
This role is required to be in the UK

Desirable

You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from startup to mid-size)
You've build growth experiments or A/B tests
You have experience with Blockchains (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc..)
You have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices
You've worked with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Sinatra, Rails, Postgres, MongoDB or Redshift
You've built financial, high reliability or security systems
You have 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

Coinbase is seeking experienced backend engineers to join our team to build out the next generation of crypto-forward products and features
You will solve unique, large scale, highly complex technical problems, bridging the constraints posed by web-scale applications and blockchain technology
You will help build the next generation of systems to make cryptocurrency accessible to everyone across the globe, operating real-time applications with high frequency, low latency updates, and managing the most secure, dockerized infrastructure running in the cloud
Deliver creative customer facing features to bring 1 billion people on chain
Articulate a long term vision for maintaining and scaling our backend systems
Work with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter
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

Led by a woman

Top investors

-24% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.7)

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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