Key skills
Backend software developmentGolangDatabasesDistributed systemsRESTful API designAWSKubernetesWeb security best practicesTechnical design documentscommunicationCollaboration skillsPythonCRustKafkaPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedisOAuthJWTRESTfulRabbitMQMemcachedCachingLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Coinbase is on a mission to increase economic freedom in the world, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Backend Foundations team. This role involves building and maintaining scalable backend services, defining APIs, and leading project delivery while ensuring operational excellence.
Responsibilities:
- Build, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performing backend services in a microservices/distributed architecture
- Define internal and customer-facing APIs that serve as the building blocks for CDP
- Author technical design documents (TDDs), providing technical leadership and driving clarity across complex projects
- Lead end-to-end delivery of projects through implementation, deployment, and monitoring
- Improve and maintain operational excellence standards across the team, proactively addressing technical debt and driving improvements in reliability and observability
- Participate in code reviews and on-call rotation, lead incident response, and foster a team-wide environment that welcomes constructive feedback to maintain high code quality standards
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in backend software development, with a strong focus on backend systems
- Expertise in languages such as Golang (preferred), C, Rust or Python
- Experience with databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB), caching systems (Redis, Memcached), and message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and event-driven architectures
- Comprehensive knowledge of RESTful API design principles and experience with API development, integration and authentication protocols like OAuth and JWT
- Familiarity with AWS and containerization using Kubernetes
- Understanding of web security best practices and experience with implementing secure coding practices for financial systems
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Experience designing public-facing APIs
- Experience building financial platforms or fintech systems
- Experience with crypto/onchain ecosystem (but not required)