Coinbase is on a mission to increase economic freedom in the world, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build their emerging onchain platform. The role involves designing scalable systems, building new services, and collaborating with various teams to deliver high-quality code that meets customer needs.
Responsibilities:
- Build new services to meet critical product and business needs using Golang
- Design scalable systems to solve novel problems with modern cloud technology and industry best practices
- Articulate a long term vision for maintaining and scaling our backend systems and the teams running them
- 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:
- 5+ years of software development experience with experience writing performant, large scale distributed systems
- 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
- Ability to solve complex engineering problems that deliver results aligned with team objectives
- Ability to mentor junior developers and lead the team technically on new initiatives and system improvements
- You're passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together
- Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e.g., LibreChat, Gemini, Glean) in daily workflows, continuously learn as tools evolve, and apply human-in-the-loop practices to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in efficiency, cost, and quality
- Experience with financial data, accounting systems, or high-precision transaction processing
- You have gone through a rapid growth in your company
- You have experience with Blockchain technology (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc..)
- You have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices
- You've worked with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Rails, Postgres, MongoDB or DynamoDB
- You've built financial, high reliability or security systems