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Software Engineer, Backend - Institutional

Coinbase

The world’s leading exchange for digital currencies.

Full Time
 
Mid-level
Senior
 
Backend Developer
 
United States
Annual salary
140000
 - 
165000
Tech stack
React
Go
AWS Lambda
PostgreSQL
Description

At Coinbase, our mission is toincrease economic freedom around the world, and we couldn’t do this without hiring the best people. We’re a group of hard-working overachievers who are deeply focused on building the future of finance and Web3 for our users across the globe, whether they’re trading, storing, staking or using crypto. Know those people who always lead the group project? That’s us.

There are a few things we look for across all hires we make at Coinbase, regardless of role or team. First, we look for candidates who will thrive in aculture like ours, where we default to trust, embrace feedback, and disrupt ourselves. Second, we expect all employees to commit to ourmission-focused approach to our work. Finally, we seek people who are excited to learn about and live crypto, because those are the folks who enjoy the intense moments in our sprint and recharge work culture. We’re a remote-first company looking to hire the absolute best talent all over the world.

READY TO #LIVECRYPTO? WHO YOU ARE:

 * You’ve got positive energy. You’re optimistic about the future and determined to get there.

 * You’re never tired of learning. You want to be a pro in bleeding edge tech like DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, and Web 3.0.

 * You appreciate direct communication. You’re both an active communicator and an eager listener - because let’s face it, you can’t have one without the other. You’re cool with candid feedback and see every setback as an opportunity to grow.

 * You can pivot on the fly. Crypto is constantly evolving, so our priorities do, too. What you worked on last month may not be what you work on today, and that excites you. You’re not looking for a boring job.

 * You have a “can do” attitude. Our teams create high-quality work on quick timelines. Owning a problem doesn’t scare you, but rather empowers you to take 100% responsibility for achieving our mission.

 * You want to be part of a winning team. We’re stronger together, and you’re a person who embraces being pushed out of your comfort zone.

Coinbase is seeking experienced backend 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, dockerized infrastructure running in the cloud.

The Institutional Financing Product Group engineers create and maintain a suite of products catering to institutional customers of all sizes from Hedge Funds (Coinbase Prime) to experienced individual traders (Coinbase Advanced Trade) and everything in between. We build innovative financing products such as bilateral lending, trade financing, portfolio margin, etc. to bring capital efficiency to the institutional customers.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

 * Build platforms services to serve Coinbase new, greenfield 0 to 1 financing platform using Golang, React and AWS services.

 * Design scalable systems to solve novel problems with modern cloud technology and industry best practices.

 * Articulate a long term vision for maintaining and scaling our backend systems and the teams running them.

 * Work with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter.

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

WHAT WE LOOK FOR IN YOU:

 * You have at least 3+ years of experience in software engineering.

 * You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture.

 * You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.

 * You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together.

NICE TO HAVES:

 * You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from startup to mid-size).

 * You have experience with Blockchain technology (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc..)

 * You have experience with microservices and service oriented architecture.

 * You’ve worked with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Rails, Postgres, MongoDB or DynamoDB.

 * You’ve built financial, high reliability or security systems.

Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target annual salary for this position can range as detailed below. Full time offers from Coinbase also include target bonus + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).

COMMITMENT TO EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

Coinbase is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment 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. Coinbase will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. For US applicants, you may view Pay Transparency in certain locations, as required by law.

Coinbase is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to accommodationsat]coinbase.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.