Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Platform; FinHub - Ledger

Overview

Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of?

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system.

To achieve our mission, we’re seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up.

We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems.

Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone. But if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there’s no better place to be.

While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first, we are not remote-only. In-person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment. Attendance is expected and fully supported.

Ledger is one of the core services for Coinbase, responsible for processing transactions and managing the funds of our users. Today, our scale and complexity of operations has far surpassed the original design of Ledger and fund management and ledgering systems. This is a unique opportunity to redesign foundational systems that will set Coinbase up for success in the next decade.

We are looking for problem solvers who love complex problems in the intersection of crypto, finance and distributed systems.

• Design and develop scalable ledgering systems that processes millions of transactions using modern technology and industry best practices
• Build, test, and release high quality product-facing features with integrity, scalability, maintainability and stability.
• Drive strategic technical direction for complex initiatives either individually or through a team
• Identify, anticipate and lead analysis and resolution of technical challenges
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders from finance and product teams to deliver high impact and high visibility features and projects
• Work with engineers, data analysts, product managers and senior leadership to turn our product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter
• Mentor and develop junior engineers, influencing technical designs and code quality.
• Drive system improvements by embedding AI into operational practices

• 5+ years of software development experience with experience writing performant, large scale distributed systems
• Strong coding skills, preferably in Go, along with solid understanding of relational databases and transactions
• Strong problem solver with ability to debug and foresee problems.
• Experience in leading a team to deliver robust solutions
• Familiarity with writing highly concurrent systems and good intuition for REST API design
• Proven experience working on large projects with long-term impact on a single system or team
• Proven experience in identifying customer problems with a proactive mind-set
• Capable of driving alignments with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong technical grasp with excellent judgment on task prioritizations
• Ability to solve complex engineering problems that deliver results aligned with team objectives
• Ability to mentor junior developers and lead the team technically on new initiatives and system improvements

• You have experience with distributed systems and databases
• You have experience in financial services
• You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from startup to mid-size)
• Experience with growth experiments or A/B testing frameworks
• You have experience with Blockchain technology (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc)
• You’ve worked with Golang, Python, Docker, SQL, or Postgres
• You’ve built financial, high reliability or security systems
• Crypto-forward experience, including…