About the role

Staff Software Engineer developing infrastructure for Coinbase's financial systems. Balancing individual contribution and project leadership while mentoring team members in a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

Architect and develop next generation book and records system that power Coinbase
Provide technical structure to teams and work closely with management and stakeholders to define strategic roadmaps
Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise
Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards
Work with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter.
Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers

8+ years of experience in software engineering
You’ve built fault tolerant, highly reliable systems at scale
You’ve experienced architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
You have experience applying these skills to Ledgering or Trading systems at scale.
You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together
Nice to haves: Have experience with Aeron, Raft, high performance Java
Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services.
You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from 10 to 100s of engineers)