Specialty
The role
Coinbase is hiring a senior backend engineer for its Institutional group, on the team that builds settlement and transfer systems. The work covers moving funds across fiat, crypto and internal ledgers. The company is remote-first, with quarterly in-person working sessions.
What you will do
- Design, build and scale backend services that process settlements and transfers across fiat, crypto and internal ledgers
- Review code, refactor and take part in every stage of the development lifecycle
- Lead performance and scalability work and resolve production issues
- Turn product direction into quarterly technical roadmaps with product and engineering managers
- Propose architecture changes that cut tech debt and improve reliability
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers
What they ask for
- 5+ years of backend software engineering with production services at scale
- Production experience with Go or a similar backend language
- Experience with Postgres or a similar relational database
- Experience with Kafka or similar message-based architectures
- Track record of owning system design decisions and leading technical proposals
- Experience finding and fixing performance and scalability problems in distributed systems
- Experience mentoring engineers through reviews, testing and documentation
- Attend quarterly in-person working sessions
What they offer
- Equity and bonus eligibility may be part of total pay
- Medical, dental, vision and 401(k) benefits
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