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Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Consumer Products

Coinbase

About the Role

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Consumer Products team. This role is pivotal in ensuring that our retail app remains the easiest-to-use and fastest experience for accessing cryptocurrency. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will balance the role of an individual contributor while also anchoring new projects, leading technical direction, and mentoring other engineers on the team.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and Develop Distributed Systems: You will be responsible for designing and developing distributed systems that are scalable and reliable.
  • Provide Technical Structure: Work closely with management and stakeholders to define strategic roadmaps and provide technical structure to teams.
  • Project Management: Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables with your technical expertise.
  • Mentorship: Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards.
  • Infrastructure Design: Design and implement foundational infrastructure components used by every engineering team in production, such as dynamic configuration, secrets storage, and container orchestration.
  • Code Quality: Write high-quality, well-tested code to meet the needs of your customers.

Qualifications

  • Experience: 8+ years of experience in software engineering.
  • Problem Solving: Experienced in architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact.
  • Passion for Open Financial Systems: You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together.

Nice to Haves

  • Experience with rapid growth in a company (from 10 to 100s of engineers).
  • Experience with Blockchains (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc.).
  • Experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices.
  • Experience with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Sinatra, Rails, Postgres.
  • Experience building financial, high reliability, or security systems.

About Coinbase

Coinbase is a digital currency wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with new digital currencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. Our vision is to bring more innovation, efficiency, and equality of opportunity to the world by building an open financial system. We are a remote-first company looking to hire the absolute best talent all over the world.

Commitment to Diversity

Coinbase is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Benefits
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  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • 401(k)

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