Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer Products)

Position Overview

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

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, dockerized infrastructure running in the cloud.

The Consumer Product Group engineers strive to make the Coinbase retail app the easiest-to-use and fastest experience for accessing the crypto. In 2023, our goal is to be the #1 self custody wallet measured by MTU’s and download share. Wallet is the future of web3 and of Coinbase. Suite of products include: Coinbase app, advance trade, dapps, and staking.

Requirements

• At least 2+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services.
• Ability to compose a service-oriented architecture.
• Passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together.

Responsibilities

• Decompose our monolithic Rails app into microservices.
• Articulate a long-term vision for maintaining and scaling our backend systems.
• Work with engineers, designers, product managers, and senior leadership to turn product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter.
• Write high-quality, well-tested code to meet the needs of customers.

Nice to Haves

• Experience with rapid growth in a company (from startup to mid-size).
• Experience building growth experiments or A/B tests.
• Experience with Blockchains (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc.).
• Experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices.
• Experience with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Sinatra, Rails, Postgres, MongoDB, or Redshift.
• Experience building 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 Information

• Job #: GCBE04US