2 months ago
Base Salary
$186k - $219k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the design and delivery of performant, available, and consistent systems powering trading for millions of users worldwide.
- Architect extensible systems supporting Spot, Limit, Recurring, and other trading types and assets.
- Partner with product and design to ship trading experiences across web and mobile.
- Drive production service evolution, scaling, and maintenance of critical trading infrastructure.
- Improve engineering quality through code reviews, mentorship, and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of software engineering experience building and scaling production services handling web-scale traffic.
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining high-availability distributed systems, ideally in trading or financial systems.
- Deep proficiency in backend systems languages such as Java or Golang and experience with data stores such as MongoDB or Redis.
- Ability to combine customer-focused product thinking with comprehensive observability and operational excellence.
- Experience upgrading or re-architecting significant legacy systems into next-generation platforms.
- 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 “surges.”
- Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), equity, and bonus eligibility are mentioned.
- Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
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.