Coinbase

Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Platform

Coinbase

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: 🇨🇦 Canada

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Salary

💰 CA$191,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

CloudDockerDynamoDBGoMongoDBPostgresRubyRuby on Rails

About the role

  • Build new services to meet critical product and business needs using Golang
  • Design scalable systems to solve novel problems with modern cloud technology and industry best practices
  • Articulate a long term vision for maintaining and scaling backend systems and the teams running them
  • Work with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to turn product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter
  • Write high quality, well tested code
  • Solve unique, large scale, highly complex technical problems bridging web-scale application constraints and blockchain technology
  • Operate real-time applications with high frequency, low latency updates and manage secure, dockerized cloud infrastructure

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience in software engineering
  • Designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture
  • Write high quality, well tested code
  • Passionate about building an open financial system
  • Experience with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Rails, Postgres, MongoDB, or DynamoDB (listed as technologies)
  • Experience building financial, high reliability, or security systems
  • Nice to haves: rapid company growth (startup to mid-size), growth experiments or A/B testing frameworks
  • Nice to haves: Experience with Blockchain technology (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum) and crypto-forward onchain experience (interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, engaging with dApps)
Benefits
  • target bonus + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, and vision)
  • Remote-first work arrangement (in-person participation required throughout the year)
  • Team and company-wide offsites held multiple times annually (attendance expected and supported)
  • Reasonable accommodations for disabilities

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
GolangRubyDockerRailsPostgresMongoDBDynamoDBservice oriented architecturehigh quality codewell tested code
Soft skills
articulate visioncollaborationproblem solvingpassion for open financial systems