Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Platform - FinHub)

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.

We’re looking to hire a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join one of our teams within the Platform Product Group.  The Platform Product Group’s mission is to build a trusted, scalable, and compliant platform to maximize velocity, efficiency and quality. They build the foundations that can be used by multiple products and teams at Coinbase so that users can have a consistent and high-quality experience. 

About the team:

FinHub is at the core of Coinbase, processing and recording fund movements for our clients and our business. We are responsible for processing transactions across crypto, fiat and internal wallet, and managing the assets for our users including providing portfolio performance, user tax optimizations etc.  With rapid growth of the industry and the company, our scale and complexity of operations quickly surpassed the original design of typical ledgering systems. Currently, we are taking on a challenge to unlock the next level of evolution for fund movements architecture. This is a unique opportunity to redesign foundational systems that will set Coinbase up for success in the next decade. 

What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):

• Design and implement next generation core FinTech systems that power Coinbase
• Interact with stakeholders in many different organizations that build Coinbase products or responsible for financial operations
• Participate in shaping of the strategy and execution path of FinHub
• 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.

What we look for in you (ie. job requirements): 

• 12 + years of experience in backend software engineering using Golang or similar languages
• Domain expertise in FinTech and / or trading
• Proven track record of delivering impactful solutions that power significant fund flows
• You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained high throughput and low latency production services
• You’ve experience in architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
• Strong technical knowledge of building distributed systems that process massive scale
• Solid communication skills, ability to communicate to stakeholders with various technical and non-technical backgrounds
• Relentless drive to set and perseverance to achieve ambitious goals
• Passion for building an open financial system that brings the world together

Nice to haves:

• Practical experience of building ledgering or trading systems at large scale
• Experience both in startups and large enterprises
• 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 ID: GPBE07US

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