Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer- Retail Cash)

1 hour, 29 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Coinbase

Coinbase

Coinbase provides a user-friendly platform for buying and selling digital currencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, catering to individuals, businesses, and developers in the cryptocurrency market.

Capital Markets
1K-5K
Founded 2012

Description

  • Serve as the technical leader and strategist for the Consumer Cash team, defining multi-quarter technical strategies across multiple financial products.
  • Architect, develop, and own distributed systems that power low-latency APIs and event-driven pipelines for high-volume cash transactions.
  • Translate business goals into a clear technical roadmap in close partnership with management and stakeholders.
  • Design and implement foundational high-performance infrastructure components using tools such as Kafka and ClickHouse in an event-sourced architecture.
  • Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables for assigned technical initiatives.
  • Mentor and coach team members on advanced design techniques, coding standards, and best practices.
  • Write high-quality, production-ready code that is thoroughly tested and supports a critical product in market.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous, high-impact problems.
  • Demonstrated experience with low-latency, event-driven, or distributed systems.
  • Strong background in building consumer-facing trading products or applications that handle large amounts of streaming data is a plus.
  • Passion for building an open financial system that brings the world together.
  • Intellectual curiosity and openness, with a commitment to positive energy and blameless truth-seeking.
  • Experience in payments, banking, wallets, or trading systems, especially transaction processing or ledgering, is preferred.
  • Familiarity with Golang, ClickHouse, Kafka, Redis, and MongoDB is preferred.
  • Experience building financial, high-reliability, or security systems is preferred.
  • Background in blockchains such as Bitcoin or Ethereum, or crypto-forward experience, is preferred.
  • Experience working at a company through rapid growth from 10 to hundreds of engineers is preferred.

Benefits

  • Annual base salary range of $217,900 CAD, excluding equity and bonus.
  • Total compensation may include equity and bonus eligibility.
  • Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Remote-first flexibility with required in-person participation throughout the year.
  • Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually and are fully supported.
  • Coinbase provides reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities during the hiring process.

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