
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend
Coinbase
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $253,895 - $298,700 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Spearhead the technical design and implementation of major initiatives across the Consumer organization
- Ensure a performant, low-latency trading experience for users globally
- Review and simplify the technical architecture across Trading and Financial Services
- Reduce dependency on shared platform teams by building robust, domain-specific solutions
- Conduct technical risk assessments and increase the engineering rigor of our systems
- Define the SLOs and metrics that truly reflect product quality and drive the initiatives required to improve them
- Exert technical leadership across large teams and multiple pods
- Actively recruit and assess engineers with 'Trader DNA'
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience in large-scale backend distributed systems
- Experience building crypto-native systems or extensive background in TradFi, including Market Making, Market Structure, or Trading Systems (specifically Futures, Options, and Equities)
- Ability to take abstract business goals and translate them into concrete, executed technical roadmaps
- Proven ability to lead other senior ICs and influence large projects
- Strong cross-functional partnership skills
Benefits
- health insurance
- retirement plans
- paid time off
- flexible work arrangements
- professional development
- bonuses
- stock options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringbackend systemstechnical designtechnical architecturerisk assessmentsSLOsmetricstrading systemscrypto-native systemslarge-scale systems
Soft Skills
technical leadershipcross-functional partnershipinfluencerecruitmentassessmentcommunicationproblem-solvingcollaborationstrategic thinkingexecution