Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Platform - Payments Platform)

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.

The mission of the Platform Product Group engineers is to build a trusted, scalable and compliant platform to operate with speed, efficiency and quality. Our teams build and maintain the platforms critical to the existence of Coinbase. There are many teams that make up this group which include Product Foundations (i.e. Identity, Payment, Risk, Proofing & Regulatory, Finhub), Machine Learning, Customer Experience, and Infrastructure).

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Payments team at Coinbase. Our team is diligently crafting innovative payment solutions aimed at empowering both individual consumers and large-scale institutions within the cryptocurrency ecosystem. We are developing state-of-the-art payment infrastructures, workflows and APIs, to facilitate the seamless transition of traditional currency into the crypto landscape, thereby enhancing financial access. Our payment solutions are designed with a focus on simplicity and scalability, aiming to drive widespread adoption of crypto-centric products such as Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Decentralized Applications (DApps), and cryptocurrency exchanges.

What you’ll be doing:

• Architect and develop payments platform for processing billions of $s of payments across the globe
• 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
• Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
• Hands-on with coding
• Plan and Implement the multi-year strategy for Payments engineering with the technical leadership on your team
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter
• Add positive energy in every meeting, and make your coworkers feel included in every interaction
• Engage with upstream teams and enforce SLAs for data availability and quality

What we look for in you:

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering
• Experience in uplevelling junior engineers via processes and setting a high bar for them to follow
• You know what high quality code — and software engineering processes — look like and know how to foster an environment that creates them
• You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together
• Experience of building large distributed systems.
• Experience of building simple, scalable and fault tolerant APIs

Nice to haves:

• You’ve worked with Golang, gRPC, Docker, Kafka, AWS cloud, SnowFlake, Databricks
• Experience in Financial domain
• 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 #: GPBE06US

*Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate your onchain experience.

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