Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Institutional - Financing)

P2P; Canada; On-site; CAD 192,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an innovative firm dedicated to transforming the financial landscape through blockchain technology. This role offers the chance to design and implement cutting-edge financing products while collaborating with top-tier professionals. You will enhance developer efficiency and operational excellence, making a meaningful impact in a fast-paced environment. If you thrive under pressure and are passionate about building an open financial system, this opportunity is perfect for you. Embrace the challenge and contribute to a mission that aims to reshape the global financial system for the better.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Experience with low-latency production services and service-oriented architecture.
• Good awareness of SQL or No-SQL databases.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement new financing products and features.
• Create reporting, monitoring tools, frameworks, and APIs.
• Mentor team members and improve developer efficiency.

Skills

Software Engineering

Service Oriented Architecture

SQL Databases

No-SQL Databases

Low-latency Production Services

Tools

Postgres

Kafka

Golang

React

Protobuf

Job description

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.

The Institutional Product Group engineers create and maintain a suite of products catering to institutional customers of all sizes from Hedge Funds (Coinbase Prime) to experienced individual traders (Coinbase Advanced Trade) and everything in between. Additional Products include Prime - Custody Only, Prime Web3 Wallet, Commerce and Exchange. Whether the customer needs are trading, staking, governance, custody, web3 operations, or API integrations, Coinbase Institutional has them covered.

The Institutional Financing Engineering team is responsible for building and maintaining the systems required to safely manage billions of dollars of loans across a number of different products, including Portfolio Margin, Trade Finance, Agency Lending, Bilateral Lending and more. Financing is incredibly important to the Prime Brokerage business because it allows customers to use leverage on their trading positions, as well as generate yield on long holdings. Financing products are important because they generate recurring revenue (as opposed to transaction revenue), but it also increases trading activity and encourages assets to be held on platform.

What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):

• Design and implement new financing products and features
• Create and build new reporting, monitoring, tools, frameworks and APIs
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our vision into a tangible deliverables every quarter
• Improving developer efficiency, engineering excellence, and operational excellence
• Provide support to operations and other engineering teams
• Mentor team members and help uplift the technical skill set across the team

What we look for in you:

• You have at least 5 years of experience in software engineering.
• You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained critical low-latency production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture.
• You’ve good awareness of at least one of the major SQL or No-SQL databases - Postgres, SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB; and interest in optimizing and maintaining them
• You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together.

Nice to haves:

• You’ve worked with some or all of: Golang, Postgres, Kafka, Protobuf, and React.
• You’ve built financial, high reliability or security systems.

Job #: GIBE05US

*Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate your onchain experience

Pay Transparency Notice: The target annual salary for this position can range as detailed below. Full time offers from Coinbase also include target bonus + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, and vision).

Pay Range:

$191,100—$191,100 CAD

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

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