Staff Software Engineer

Coinbase Careers Page

14h • Hybrid

About The Position

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.
Ready to grow beyond your expectations and unlock new opportunities?
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 fast-paced. 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.
Coinbase is seeking experienced Fullstack engineers to join our team to 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.
The Growth organization drives Coinbase’s mission of bringing the world onchain. By building and leveraging growth tools across multiple avenues, including referral and incentives programs, creating a world-class notifications system, building a dynamic, engaging, and accessible logged-out web experience, and optimizing our new user onboarding flow, we ensure that Coinbase is the easiest, safest, and fastest way to buy, hold, and trade Crypto assets, and ensure our new users are set up for success from their first interaction.

Requirements

• 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, Fullstack 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.
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Experience 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

• Fullstack experience
• You have experience launching new products from 0 to 1
• Experience with growth experiments or A/B testing frameworks.
• You have experience with Blockchain technology (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc..)
• You’ve worked with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Rails, Postgres, MongoDB or DynamoDB.
• You’ve built fintech, highly reliable and/or secure 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.

Responsibilities

• 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, Fullstack, data and ML.
• 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. notifications service, deferred deep-linking, SEO services, etc…)
• Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed