Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Platform)

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: $180,625 - $212,000 USD (Pay Range)

Coinbase is seeking Senior Backend Engineers to join the Platform Product Group. This group’s mission is to build a trusted, scalable, and compliant platform to maximize velocity, efficiency, and quality. They build the foundations that can be used by multiple products and teams at Coinbase so that users can have a consistent and high-quality experience. As an engineer at Coinbase, you will be building 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.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in software engineering.
• Experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services.
• Knowledge of service-oriented architecture.
• Ability to write high-quality, well-tested code.
• Passion for building an open financial system.

Responsibilities

• Build new services to meet critical product and business needs using Golang.
• Design scalable systems to solve novel problems with modern cloud technology and industry best practices.
• Articulate a long-term vision for maintaining and scaling backend systems and the teams running them.
• Work with engineers, designers, product managers, and senior leadership to turn product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter.

Nice to Haves

• Experience with rapid growth in a company (from startup to mid-size).
• Experience with growth experiments or A/B testing frameworks.
• Experience with Blockchain technology (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc.).
• Experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices.
• Experience with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Rails, Postgres, MongoDB, or DynamoDB.
• Experience building financial, high reliability, or security systems.

Additional Information

• Job #: GPBE05US
• #LI-Remote
• Pay Transparency Notice: Pay Range: $180,625 - $212,000 USD. Full-time offers from Coinbase also include target bonus + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).
• Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate your onchain experience.