Senior Software Engineer

Ready to grow beyond your expectations and unlock new opportunities?

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system.

To achieve our mission, we’re seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up. We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems.

Our work culture is intense and fast-paced. If you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there’s no better place to be.

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 infrastructure running in the cloud.

The Growth organization drives Coinbase’s mission of bringing the world onchain. By building and leveraging growth tools across multiple avenues, including referral and incentives programs, creating a world-class notifications system, building a dynamic, engaging, and accessible logged-out web experience, and optimizing our new user onboarding flow, we ensure that Coinbase is the easiest, safest, and fastest way to buy, hold, and trade Crypto assets, and ensure our new users are set up for success from their first interaction.

What you'll be doing:

• We're building a world-class growth engine by developing features, products, and systems that consistently deliver user value from their first interaction to their entire journey with Coinbase. We do this in a systematic way by:
  • rapidly launching, iterating and optimizing new and existing features and products to grow Coinbase.

• • building resilient and scalable systems that unlock growth at scale, and enable us to build, maintain and iterate on features and products even faster.
  • touching all parts of the stack including: web, mobile, backend, data and ML.
• Build and run experiments to power the growth of Coinbase’s retail products.
• Design scalable systems to solve novel problems with modern cloud technology and industry best practices.
• Articulate a long term vision for maintaining and scaling our backend systems and the teams running them.
• 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.

What we look for in you:

• Impact-Driven
  • Motivated by having impact.  Excited about delivering outcomes vs outputs.  
  • Full-stack minded.  Willing and able to quickly pursue and validate any idea or hypothesis, with the skill to tackle problems that span product, backend systems, ML, data and more.  Not everyone needs to be full-stack, but we encourage it when it will enable flexibility and velocity.
  • Data-driven. Identifies and pursues high impact opportunities, backed by data.
• High Agency
  • Understands how their work will drive meaningful impact to the growth of Coinbase.
  • Takes accountability and actively seeks out opportunities to deliver results.
  • Is equipped with all the tools and skills to build products and systems quickly.
• High Velocity
  • Preferred mode of operation is fast.  Genuinely motivated and energized by moving quickly.
  • Knows how to balance velocity and quality.  Understand the importance of sustainable velocity, and prioritize simplicity when possible.
  • Invests in tools, systems and processes to increase velocity, as well as builds organizational relationships and cross-team expertise to break down organizational barriers that could hinder execution speed.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture.
• Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.
• Passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together.

Nice to haves:

• You have experience launching new products from 0 to 1
• Experience with  growth experiments or A/B testing frameworks.
• You have experience with Blockchain technology (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc..)
• You’ve worked with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Rails, Postgres, MongoDB or DynamoDB.
• You’ve built fintech, highly reliable and/or secure 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.

Job #: P75746