Software Engineer, Backend ( Developer Experience - Server Foundations)

Coinbase; United States; Remote; USD 152,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a passionate Software Engineer to join their Server Foundations team. This role focuses on designing and maintaining software development frameworks that enhance efficiency for backend engineers. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in backend systems and proficiency with modern technology stacks like Go and gRPC, contributing to Coinbase's mission of economic freedom in the world.

Benefits

Health benefits including medical, dental, and vision

401(k) matching

Target bonus and equity

Qualifications

• At least 2+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience with building large scale backend systems.
• Strong proficiency within a modern tech stack.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain software development framework.
• Implement customer-focused abstractions for backend engineers.
• Contribute to technical decisions and manage technical problems.

Skills

Problem Solving

Interpersonal Skills

Self-Starter

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

gRPC

Go

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 vision of the Developer Experience org within Infrastructure is to make Coinbase the most enjoyable place in the world for developers to rapidly build and ship quality products. We aim to create experiences where velocity and product quality is high, and developers feel a sense of joy using our products and services every single day.We are looking for a Software Engineer to join the Server Foundations team within Developer Experience. The team is responsible for empowering efficiency through foundational excellence. Our vision is to enable Coinbase backend engineering towards a future of rapid progress. We’re currently focused on revitalizing Coinbase's software development framework and other application server components, shared libraries etc. that will enable engineers to launch an application in a development environment within minutes.

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

• Design, build, and maintain software development framework and other shared libraries for Coinbase’s backend engineers.
• Implement customer-focused abstractions that simplify and standardize the way we offer features.
• Responsible for the performance, automation and standardization of gRPC services.
• Learn and continue to foster an understanding of the long-term needs of our backend engineering infrastructure.
• Contribute to technical decisions providing design justification, coordination, and collaboration with other teams in the organization.
• Communicate to gather requirements for backend development framework offerings and capabilities, and to understand gaps and improvements.
• Produce professional documentation and diagrams to clearly and concisely communicate concepts and architectures to infrastructure colleagues, in addition to our users.
• Manage and assist in the resolution of complicated technical problems and incidents, provide appropriate communication and escalation.
• Support and maintain our current infrastructure offerings to maintain a high level of service and availability to the rest of the organization.
• Develop strong and effective working relationships with the rest of the Infrastructure organization, Security, business partners, stakeholders and vendors
• Keep up to date with current developments and best practices within our domain and make bold and forward-looking recommendations.

What we look for in you:

• You have at least 2+ years of software engineering experience and experience with building large scale backend systems
• Showcase strong proficiency within a modern tech stack, like Go for languages and gRPC for communication.
• Experience building shared libraries, frameworks for large organizations.
• Have experience refactoring legacy codebases, isolating and decommissioning unused logic
• Ability to hold a high bar for quality, are a self starter, and have strong interpersonal skills
• Strong problem solving skills and ability to identify problems, determine their root cause, and see them through to solution
• Ability to balance business needs with technical solutions
• Have experience scaling backend infrastructure

Job #: GPBE04US

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

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For other select roles, Coinbase is piloting BrightHire, an AI interview intelligence platform, to transcribe and summarize interview notes, allowing our interviewers to fully focus on you as the candidate.

Depending on your role and stage in the application process, you will be informed of more specifics regarding which tool(s) will be used as part of the interview process.

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Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, 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, vision and 401(k)).

Pay Range:

$152,405—$179,300 USD

Please be advised that each candidate may submit a maximum of four applications within any 30-day period. We encourage you to carefully evaluate how your skills and interests align with Coinbase's roles before applying.

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