Senior Engineering Manager (consumer - Growth App & Infra)

Senior Engineering Manager

Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you're capable of? At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It's a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system. To achieve our mission, we're seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up. We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company's hardest problems. Our work culture is intense and isn't for everyone. But if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there's no better place to be. While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first, we are not remote-only. In-person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment. Attendance is expected and fully supported.

The Growth organization drives Coinbase's mission of bringing the world onchain by building features, products and mission critical systems that enable user growth such as: incentives platform, notifications platform, logged-out web experience, SEO, new user onboarding and more. We ensure that Coinbase is the easiest, safest, and fastest way to buy, hold, and trade Crypto assets, and ensure we deliver the best experience to our millions of users globally.

The Growth org builds features, products and systems that repeatedly and predictably drive user growth, through rapid and systematic execution. As a growth org, we take a holistic view of the user's Coinbase journey, with teams focused on user acquisition, engagement and retention.

Responsibilities

We hire and cultivate a world class growth management teams with below attributes as our DNA:

• Impact-Driven: Motivated by having impact. Excited about delivering outcomes vs outputs. Full-stack minded. Willing and able to quickly pursue and validate any idea or hypothesis, with the skill to tackle problems that span product, backend systems, ML, data and more. Not everyone needs to be full-stack, but we encourage it when it will enable flexibility and velocity.
• Data-driven: Identifies and pursues high impact opportunities, backed by data.
• High Agency: Understands how their work will drive meaningful impact to the growth of Coinbase. Takes accountability and actively seeks out opportunities to deliver results. Is equipped with all the tools and skills to build products and systems quickly.
• High Velocity: Preferred mode of operation is fast. Genuinely motivated and energized by moving quickly. Knows how to balance velocity and quality. Understand the importance of sustainable velocity, and prioritize simplicity when possible. Invests in tools, systems and processes to increase velocity, as well as builds organizational relationships and cross-team expertise to break down organizational barriers that could hinder execution speed.

How do we do it? We're building a world-class growth engine by developing features, products, and systems that consistently deliver user value from their first interaction to their entire journey with Coinbase. We do this in a systematic way by:

• Rapidly launching, iterating and optimizing new and existing features and products to grow Coinbase.
• Building resilient and scalable systems that unlock growth at scale, and enable us to build, maintain and iterate on features and products even faster.
• Touching all parts of the stack including: web, mobile, backend, data and ML.

The Role

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to join our team and build out the next generation of crypto-forward products and features. You will solve unique, large scale, highly complex technical problems, bridging the constraints posed by web-scale applications and blockchain technology. You will help build the next generation of systems to make cryptocurrency accessible to everyone across the globe, operating real-time applications with high frequency, low latency updates, and managing the most secure infrastructure running in the cloud.

What You'll Be Doing (ie. Job Duties)

• Lead multiple growth engineering teams, in partnership with product, design and data to build products and mission critical systems to deliver company growth.
• Partner with senior growth engineering leaders to drive engineering quality and excellence across all products and systems that enable company growth.
• Partner with growth leadership to build a world class growth engineering organization through hiring, developing, and promoting a culture of high velocity execution, delivering impact and operating with agency.

What We Look For In You

Strong track record of leading high functioning engineering teams to repeatedly deliver significant business impact. Ability to drive multi-quarter roadmaps with complex organizational dependencies. Ability to deliver high quality products and mission critical systems under strict deadlines.

Nice to haves:

• Strong cross-functional partnership skills.
• Experience working across all parts of the stack.
• Excited about working in a fast-paced environment.
• Excited and motivated about delivering impact to the business.
• Previous Growth experience is a plus!

Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Full time offers from Coinbase also include bonus eligibility + equity eligibility + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)). Base salary range shown. Total compensation also includes equity and bonus eligibility and benefits: $253,895—$298,700 USD