Principal Software Engineer, Backend – Platform
Coinbase
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $297,670 - $350,200 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Influence and oversee large engineering efforts across domains such as identity, payments, ledgering and risk
- Collaborate with product leaders to establish and execute on vision and architecture strategies
- Help drive the unified vision for product platform services and API surface
- Lead the development and scaling of data stores and ledger systems within payment frameworks
- Implement best practices for building and maintaining large-scale systems
- Mentor other individual contributors to promote technical excellence and professional growth
Requirements
- Minimum of 15+ years of experience
- Experience providing technical and strategic oversight for a high-performing global team of hundreds of engineers.
- Desire and ability to inspire, influence and drive change at all levels, across multiple XFN teams, VPs and C-Suite.
- Demonstrated experience in working with large-scale systems and solving technical problems with over multi-year, multi-billion dollar, and multi-organization impact.
- Excellent collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional leaders and mentor other team members.
- Experience in the fintech sector, with crypto experience being a plus
Benefits
- target bonus
- target equity
- benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k))
- Team and company-wide offsites held multiple times annually; attendance is expected and fully supported
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
large-scale systemsdata storesledger systemspayment frameworksAPI developmenttechnical oversightstrategic oversightproblem solving
Soft skills
collaborationmentoringinfluencinginspiringdriving change