Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Growth & App Infra)

Coinbase is on a mission to increase economic freedom in the world, and they are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help build their emerging onchain platform. The role involves architecting and developing distributed systems, mentoring team members, and managing project priorities while driving user growth through innovative solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and develop distributed systems
• Provide technical structure to teams and work closely with management and stakeholders to define strategic roadmaps
• Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise
• Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards
• Design and implement foundational infrastructure components used by every engineering team in production (e.g. dynamic configuration, secrets storage, container orchestration, etc)
• Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering
• You've experienced architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
• 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 10 to 100s of engineers)
• 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
• You've built financial, high reliability or security systems
• Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services