Staff Software Engineer, Backend (consumer - Financial Services & Loyalty, CB1 Growth)

Join Coinbase

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.

We're looking for Staff Software Engineers to balance the role of an individual contributor while also anchoring new projects, leading technical direction and mentoring other engineers on the team. We highly value individuals with intellectual curiosity and openness. We collaborate across the organization, helping our engineers think big and take risks while building a culture of diversity, positive energy and blameless truth-seeking. Our engineering team leverages a diverse tech stack and our focus is finding smart engineers who've worked on complex projects and we have all the trust you'd be able to pick up whatever tech necessary in the stack.

The Trust & Loyalty org contains a portfolio of products. Our flagship offering is CB1 – Coinbase's subscription offering and we're creating the default crypto membership for all members of the crypto community. Currently, CB1 offers benefits such as free trading, boosted staking rates, and more. The role is on CB1 Growth reporting to Xiaobin He, and the team is responsible for driving the acquisition and activation of Coinbase One subscribers. Our focus is on rapid experimentation and funnel optimization to increase sign-ups and user engagement, as well extending the reach and benefits of Coinbase One through international growth, on-chain partnerships, and strategic collaborations.

Job Duties

• 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

What We Look For In You

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering
• Experience architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
• Experience building or scaling systems related to notifications, recommendations, personalization, growth loops or subscription/membership/promotion products.
• Familiarity with growth metrics (e.g. activation, retention, engagement) and A/B testing frameworks

Nice To Haves

• Experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices
• Experience with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Sinatra, Rails, Postgres
• Experience building 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.