Senior Software Engineer, Coinbase
Backend, Institutional Products
+ 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
+ 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
- You have at least 5 years of experience in software engineering
- You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
- You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture
- You have experience executing technical tasks and projects end-to-end
- You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together
- You're an excellent written and verbal communicator in English
Desirable
- You have previous professional working experience with Golang, Postgres, MongoDB
- You’ve built financial, high reliability or security systems
- You have experience with Coinbase products and/or you have experience with Blockchains (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc..)
- You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from startup to mid-size)
- You have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices
- You are passionate about blockchain technology and a power user of crypto exchange applications or dapps
What the job involves
- Coinbase is seeking a skilled Senior Backend Engineer to join the Institutional Foundations team
- This role offers the opportunity to build and scale systems that are critical to the success of Coinbase Institutional, directly impacting global availability, fund safety, and user experience
- You'll collaborate with a talented team to create highly reliable and secure solutions, ensuring a seamless experience for Coinbase's institutional clients
- As an engineer at Coinbase, 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
- You will build new services to meet critical product and business needs using Golang for our Card Program
- You will help articulate a long term vision for maintaining and scaling Coinbase Institutional's backend systems
- You will work with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to turn the product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter
- You will independently take ownership over the completion and quality of your tasks and projects and write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
- Show bias for action, and data-driven decisions to experiment new solutions as fast as possible
Application process
- Please be advised that each candidate may submit a maximum of four applications within any 30-day period
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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