Senior Software Engineer - Tax Platform

Position Overview

The mission of the Platform Product Group engineers is to build a trusted, scalable, and compliant platform to operate with speed, efficiency, and quality. Our teams build and maintain the platforms critical to the existence of Coinbase. As crypto adoption accelerates, tax compliance becomes critical. The Tax Platform will not just simplify taxes—it will transform how millions of users and businesses around the world navigate tax compliance. We have a bold vision: build a global, adaptable, and intelligent tax platform that responds to evolving regulatory landscapes across regions.

As a Senior Software Engineer at Coinbase, you will 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, dockerized infrastructure running in the cloud.

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 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. Debug extremely difficult technical problems, and make systems and products both work better and be easier to deploy, own, operate, and diagnose.
• Review all feature designs within your product area and across the company for cross-cutting projects. Be an owner of the security, safety, scale, operational integrity, and architectural clarity of these designs.

Requirements

• At least 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services.
• Knowledge of how to compose a service-oriented architecture.
• Ability to write high-quality, well-tested code to meet customer needs.
• Passion for building an open financial system that brings the world together.
• Strong technical skills for system design and coding.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a bias toward open, transparent cultural practices.

Nice to Haves

• Experience through rapid company growth (from startup to mid-size).
• Experience with growth experiments or A/B testing frameworks.
• Experience with Blockchain technology (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc.).
• Experience with Golang, Docker, Rails, Postgres, MongoDB, or DynamoDB.

Company Information

The mission of the Platform Product Group engineers is to build a trusted, scalable and compliant platform to operate with speed, efficiency and quality. Our teams build and maintain the platforms critical to the existence of Coinbase. There are many teams that make up this group which include Product Foundations (i.e. Identity, Payment, Risk, Proofing & Regulatory, Finhub), Machine Learning, Customer Experience, and Infrastructure.

Application Instructions

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

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