Staff Software Engineer, Backend Specialist

4 weeks ago


New York, New York, United States Coinbase Full time

We're seeking a highly skilled Staff Software Engineer to join our Platform Product Group at Coinbase. As a key member of our team, you will play a crucial role in building a trusted, scalable, and compliant platform to maximize velocity, efficiency, and quality.

The Platform Product Group's mission is to create a foundation that can be used by multiple products and teams at Coinbase, ensuring a consistent and high-quality experience for users. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will balance individual contributor responsibilities with anchoring new projects, leading technical direction, and mentoring other engineers on the team.

We highly value individuals with intellectual curiosity and openness. Our engineering team leverages a diverse tech stack, and we're looking for smart engineers who've worked on complex projects. You'll have the opportunity to work closely with management and stakeholders to define strategic roadmaps and provide technical structure to teams.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Architecting and developing distributed systems
  • Providing technical structure to teams and working closely with management and stakeholders to define strategic roadmaps
  • Managing individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables with your technical expertise
  • Mentoring and training other team members on design techniques and coding standards
  • Designing and implementing foundational infrastructure components used by every engineering team in production
  • Writing high-quality, well-tested code to meet the needs of your customers

We're looking for someone with 8+ years of experience in software engineering, who has experience architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact. You should be passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together.

Nice to have:

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

Pay Transparency Notice: The target annual salary for this position can range from $211,650 to $249,000 USD, depending on your work location. Full-time offers from Coinbase include target bonus, target equity, and benefits (including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k)).

Coinbase is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider all qualified applicants 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.



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