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

Join Coinbase's Growth Team

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.

Org Overview

Consumer & Business Group (CBG)'s mission at Coinbase ​​is to become the #1 financial app in the world, focusing on delivering exceptional consumer and business experiences across financial services, trading, and growth initiatives. The Growth org's vision, within CBG, is to grow Coinbase to a billion active users globally, by driving sustainable user growth through innovative acquisition, engagement and retention strategies, and building foundational infrastructure that supports long-term growth.

Team Overview

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'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. We hire and cultivate a world class growth engineering team 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.

What you'll be doing:

• 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
• Experienced architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
• Passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together

Nice to haves:

• Rapid growth in your 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
• Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services.

Job #: GCBE06US-GAI

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: $218,025—$256,500 USD

Commitment to Equal Opportunity: Coinbase 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. Coinbase will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

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