Specialty
The role
Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Simple Trade Experience team, which runs the buy, sell and convert flows in the Coinbase app and website. The work covers backend and frontend systems for millions of users. Coinbase is remote-first with quarterly in-person sessions.
What you will do
- Design and deliver high-performance, highly available systems behind consumer trading
- Architect systems that support several trading types and assets, such as spot, limit and recurring orders
- Work with product and design to ship the trading experience across web and mobile
- Scale and maintain production trading infrastructure as traffic and scope grow
- Raise engineering quality through code reviews, mentoring and knowledge sharing
What they ask for
- 5+ years of software engineering building and scaling production services at web scale
- Track record with high-availability distributed systems, ideally in trading or finance
- Strong backend skills in Java, Go or similar, plus data stores such as MongoDB or Redis
- Product-minded approach with solid observability and operational practice
- Experience re-architecting legacy systems into newer platforms
- Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight
What they offer
- Equity and bonus eligibility
- Medical, dental, vision and 401(k)
This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on Coinbase's careers page behind the apply button.
