Senior Backend Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

Description: Base is building a decentralized future, aiming to bring a million developers and a billion users onchain. The Wallet team is crucial to this mission, focusing on enabling and accelerating the success of Base. This role involves building and maintaining backend Golang systems to power the Wallet and apps built on Base, working with Kubernetes and Cloud services to automate and maintain critical blockchain infrastructure, and engaging in research and prototyping of groundbreaking ideas. Coinbase Wallet’s mission is to bring the next billion users onchain.

Requirements

• Experience: At least 5 years of experience in software engineering or systems engineering.
• Backend Systems: Developed and shipped features of core backend systems at massive scale.
• Coding Skills: Writes high quality, well-tested, and maintainable code.
• Infrastructure Knowledge: Familiar with current trends and best practices in infrastructure and systems design.

Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining backend Golang systems that power the Wallet and apps built on Base.
• Working with Kubernetes and Cloud services to automate and maintain critical blockchain infrastructure.
• Engaging in research and prototyping of groundbreaking ideas to improve efficiency and scalability of blockchain clients.

Nice to Haves

• Technical Skills: Comfortable with Golang, Geth, Foundry, Solidity, or other crypto tools.
• Open Source Contributions: Contributed to open source crypto projects (e.g., OP Stack or Base contributions).
• Cloud Experience: Familiar with Kubernetes or cloud providers such as AWS or GCP.
• Crypto Knowledge: Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity (e.g., interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services).

Job

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