The opportunity
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom.
What you'll do
Own the design, build, and scaling of backend services that process: settlements and transfers across fiat, crypto, and internal ledger systems.
Drive code quality and maintainability through rigorous code reviews,: refactoring, and active participation across all stages of the development lifecycle.
Lead performance and scalability improvements for critical financial: infrastructure, including troubleshooting, triaging, and resolving production issues.
Partner with product managers, engineering managers, and cross-functional: teams to translate product vision into quarterly technical roadmaps and deliverables.
Propose and implement architectural improvements that accelerate team: velocity, reduce tech debt, and strengthen system reliability.
Mentor junior and mid-level engineers on technical best practices and: professional growth, raising the bar across the team.
What they're looking for
- + years of backend software engineering experience, including designing,: building, and maintaining production services at scale.
- Production experience with Go (or similar backend language), relational data: stores (Postgres or equivalent), and message-based architectures (Kafka or equivalent).
- Demonstrated ability to own system design decisions, lead technical: proposals, and drive alignment across a team of engineers.
- Track record of identifying and resolving quality, performance, and scalability issues in distributed systems.