Senior Backend Engineer - Crypto
San Francisco, CA

Job Description

Our vision is to bring more innovation, efficiency, and equality of opportunity to the world by building an open financial system. Our first step on that journey is making digital currency accessible and approachable for everyone.

Adding crypto assets and digital currencies for transacting safely is core to executing on our vision and building our brand of trust. The Crypto Payments team builds shared infrastructure to make Blockchains and Crypto assets available for investing on Coinbase and our other business units. We take on hard engineering problems in cryptography, security, blockchain technology and distributed systems, with a focus on building high reliability services for product teams.

On crypto payments, you will be tasked with helping Coinbase expand to new crypto assets. You'll work closely with product, infrastructure, fraud and security teams to add new cryptocurrencies to our platform. You will also be responsible for designing, building and maintaining scalable software systems used by over 9 million customers use to send and receive cryptocurrencies.

A little about our team: We take continuous learning to heart. We often dive into computational, financial and economic theory to better understand the engineering problems we face. We also make sure that we have the best tools for the job - we are thoughtful about code quality, testing and architecture, we push code to production confidently multiple times a day, work primarily on microservices and have great monitoring, alerting and debugging tools for production. We also value positive energy, and clear communication and are committed to building an inclusive environment for people from every background.

Responsibilities

* Design secure and highly reliable services to integrate with blockchains and add new cryptocurrency assets to Coinbase, Pro, Prime, Custody and all other business units.


* Write infrastructural services that provide secure storage, accounting and transactional services to help our customers transfer assets safely.


* Work with engineers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter.


* Add positive energy in every meeting, and make your coworkers feel included in every interaction.



Requirements

* You have at least 5 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 experience with Blockchains (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc..)


* You've worked with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Sinatra, Rails, Postgres, MongoDB or Redshift.


* You've built financial, high reliability or security systems.



Coinbase is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Coinbase does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state or federal law. Coinbase will also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in a manner consistent with San Francisco's Fair Chance Ordinance and similar local laws.