Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Advanced Trading)

Coinbase is a company dedicated to increasing economic freedom worldwide through its innovative onchain platform. They are seeking experienced backend engineers to join their Advanced Trading team, focusing on building and scaling core systems that power crypto trading. The role involves architecting robust systems and collaborating with product and design teams to create a seamless trading experience for users.

Responsibilities:

• Power highly performant, highly available systems for traders worldwide
• Architect robust systems that are easy to build on top of supporting many instrument types (Spot, Futures, Perpetual Futures, and more)
• Work in tight collaboration with product and design to articulate a best-in-class product experience
• Translate your best ideas into tangible, high value features our customers love

Requirements:

• You have at least 2+ years of experience in software engineering, especially with web-scale traffic
• You've designed, built, scaled, and maintained production services as they evolve over time
• You have a high bar for product excellence, pairing customer obsession with comprehensive observability
• You empower and cultivate your teammates. Iron sharpens iron
• You take pride in being up-to-date with the latest industry standards and best practices
• You've worked on active trading systems or other similar high availability financial systems
• You actively trade crypto or other financial instruments
• You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from startup to mid-size)
• You have experience upgrading significant parts of legacy systems, or re-architecting next-generation versions of existing systems
• You've worked with Golang, MongoDB, Redis, Snowflake before