Coinbase is on a mission to increase economic freedom in the world by building an emerging onchain platform for the global financial system. They are seeking a Backend Software Engineer for the Transfers team, responsible for building and releasing product-facing features, designing scalable systems, and collaborating with various teams to turn technical vision into a tangible roadmap.
Responsibilities:
- Build, test, and release product-facing features with stringent correctness and scalability requirements; these features could be related to market data, trading, accounting, authentication, or security
- Design scalable systems to solve novel problems with modern cloud technology and industry best practices
- 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
Requirements:
- You have at least 2+ years of experience in software engineering
- Solid understanding of relational databases and transactions
- Good intuition for REST API design
- You've designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture
- You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
- You're passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together
- You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from startup to mid-size)
- You have experience with Blockchains (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc)
- You have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices
- You've worked with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Sinatra, Rails, Postgres, MongoDB or Redshift
- You've built financial, high reliability or security systems
- You have Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services