Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Institutional - Foundations) at Coinbase

Coinbase

Remote - USA·1w ago

LeadFull-timeGolangRustRailsDockerMicroservicesMachine LearningGitAIAPIBackend

Salary Range

$153,000 - $207,000 /year

Estimated

This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.

About the Role

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join Coinbase Institutional, where you'll balance individual contributions while also leading new projects, setting technical direction, and mentoring other engineers. This role requires 8+ years of software engineering experience and a passion for building an open financial system.

Key Responsibilities

→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
→Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers

Requirements

✓8+ years of experience in software engineering
✓Experience architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
✓Passion for building an open financial system that brings the world together
✓Experience with Blockchains (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum)
✓Experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices
✓Experience with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Sinatra, Rails, Postgres
✓Experience building financial, high reliability or security systems