Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Growth & App Infra)

Org Overview:

Consumer & Business Group (CBG)’s mission at Coinbase ​​is to become the #1 financial app in the world, focusing on delivering exceptional consumer and business experiences across financial services, trading, and growth initiatives. 

The Growth org’s vision, within CBG, is to grow Coinbase to a billion active users globally, by driving sustainable user growth through innovative acquisition, engagement and retention strategies, and building foundational infrastructure that supports long-term growth. 

Team Overview:

The Growth org builds features, products and systems that repeatedly and predictably drive user growth, through rapid and systematic execution. As a growth org, we take a holistic view of the user’s Coinbase journey, with teams focused on user acquisition, engagement and retention. 

Responsibilities: 

We’re looking for Staff Software Engineers to balance the role of an individual contributor while also anchoring new projects, leading technical direction and mentoring other engineers on the team. We highly value individuals with intellectual curiosity and openness. We collaborate across the organization, helping our engineers think big and take risks while building a culture of diversity, positive energy and blameless truth-seeking. Our engineering team leverages a diverse tech stack and our focus is finding smart engineers who’ve worked on complex projects and we have all the trust you’d be able to pick up whatever tech necessary in the stack. We hire and cultivate a world class growth engineering team with below attributes as our DNA:

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.

How do we do it?

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.

What you’ll be doing

• Architect and develop distributed systems
• Provide technical structure to teams and work closely with management and stakeholders to define strategic roadmaps
• Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise
• Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards
• Design and implement foundational infrastructure components used by every engineering team in production (e.g. dynamic configuration, secrets storage, container orchestration, etc)
• Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers

What we look for in you

• 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

 Nice to haves

• You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from 10 to 100s of engineers)
• 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
• 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.

Job #: P71181

*Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate your onchain experience.