5 hours ago
Base Salary
$208k - $219k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and scale backend services for settlements and transfers across fiat, crypto, and internal ledger systems.
- Drive code quality and maintainability through code reviews, refactoring, testing, documentation, and lifecycle participation.
- Lead performance and scalability improvements, including troubleshooting, triaging, and resolving production issues.
- Partner with product managers, engineering managers, and cross-functional teams on technical roadmaps and deliverables.
- Propose and implement architectural improvements that improve team velocity, reduce technical debt, and strengthen reliability.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and raise technical standards across the team.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of backend software engineering experience designing, building, and maintaining production services at scale.
- Production experience with Go or a similar backend language, relational data stores such as Postgres or equivalent, and message-based architectures such as Kafka or equivalent.
- Ability to own system design decisions, lead technical proposals, and drive alignment across engineering teams.
- Experience identifying and resolving quality, performance, and scalability issues in distributed systems.
- Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to high standards for code quality through reviews, testing, and documentation.
- Ability to use generative AI responsibly with human oversight to improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement with quarterly in-person working sessions called surges.
- Medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits.
- Potential equity and bonus eligibility in addition to base salary.
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About Coinbase
Coinbase builds a cryptocurrency platform for consumers, institutions, and developers to buy, sell, store, and use digital assets. Its products include the Coinbase app/exchange, Coinbase Prime for institutions, custody services, and developer APIs, and it earns primarily from transaction fees and subscriptions. Founded in 2012 and now remote-first, Coinbase is a public company (NASDAQ: COIN) serving major crypto markets in the U.S. and abroad.