Senior Backend Engineer - Remote

Overview

Coinbase is seeking a skilled Senior Backend Engineer to join the Institutional Foundations team. This role offers the opportunity to build and scale systems that are critical to the success of Coinbase Institutional, directly impacting global availability, fund safety, and user experience. You'll collaborate with a talented team to create highly reliable and secure solutions, ensuring a seamless experience for Coinbase's institutional clients.

In Short

• You will build new services to meet critical product and business needs using Golang for our Card Program
• You will help articulate a long term vision for maintaining and scaling Coinbase Institutional's backend systems
• You will work with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to turn the product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter
• You will independently take ownership over the completion and quality of your tasks and projects and write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
• Show bias for action, and data-driven decisions to experiment new solutions as fast as possible

Requirements

• You have at least 5 years of experience in software engineering
• You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
• You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture
• You have experience executing technical tasks and projects end-to-end
• You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together.
• You’re an excellent written and verbal communicator in English

Benefits

• You have previous professional working experience with Golang, Postgres, MongoDB
• You’ve built financial, high reliability or security systems
• You have experience with Coinbase products and/or you have experience with Blockchains (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc..)
• You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from startup to mid-size)
• You have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices
• You are passionate about blockchain technology and a power user of crypto exchange applications or dapps