Software Engineer, Backend – Institutional Products

Coinbase

full-time

Posted on: 9/5/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $152,405 - $179,300 per year

JuniorMid-Level

Amazon RedshiftCloudDockerGoMicroservicesMongoDBPostgresRubyRuby on RailsWeb3

About the role

Decompose our monolithic Rails app into microservices
Articulate a long term vision for maintaining and scaling our backend systems.
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
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.

You have at least 2+ 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).
Nice to haves: You’ve build growth experiments or A/B tests.
Nice to haves: You have experience with Blockchains (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc..)
Nice to haves: You have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices.
Nice to haves: You’ve worked with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Sinatra, Rails, Postgres, MongoDB or Redshift.
Nice to haves: You’ve built financial, high reliability or security systems.
Nice to haves: You have Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services.