Coinbase · 16 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Trading)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$218K/yr - $256K/yr
8+ years expCoinbase is on a mission to increase economic freedom in the world, and they are seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their Consumer Portfolio Team to lead technical strategies and mentor team members. The role involves architecting and developing distributed systems for low-latency portfolio tracking, supporting millions of users and billions of transactions.
BitcoinBlockchainCryptocurrencyFinTechTrading Platform
Responsibilities
Serve as the technical leader and strategist for the Consumer Portfolio team, defining multi-quarter technical strategies that intersect multiple financial products
Architect, develop, and own distributed systems that power low-latency portfolio tracking for all Consumer users
Provide technical structure and partner closely with management and stakeholders to translate business goals into a defined strategic roadmap
Design and implement foundational, high-performance infrastructure components, leveraging tools like Kafka and Clickhouse in an event-sourced architecture
Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables with strong technical expertise
Mentor and coach other team members on advanced design techniques, coding standards, and best practices for building robust value-add products
Leverage our modern, diverse tech stack to write high-quality, production-ready code that is thoroughly tested and delivers a critical product to market
Qualification
Required
8+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant experience architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous, high-impact problems
Demonstrated experience with low-latency, event-driven, or distributed systems
A strong signal if you have a background in building consumer facing trading products or any application that handles large amounts of streaming data
Passion for building an open financial system that brings the world together
Intellectual curiosity, openness, and a passion for building a culture of positive energy and blameless truth-seeking
Preferred
Experience with trading systems or portfolio management products
Familiarity with the tech stack, including Golang, Clickhouse, Kafka, Redis, MongoDB
Experience building financial, high reliability, or security systems
Background in Blockchains (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum) or crypto-forward experience (e.g., interacting with Ethereum addresses, ENS, dApps)
Experience with a company going through rapid growth (from 10 to 100s of engineers)
Benefits
Bonus eligibility
Equity eligibility
Benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k))
Company
Coinbase
Coinbase is a crypto exchange and wallet platform that allows merchants and consumers to buy, sell, and store digital currencies.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$4.46BKey Investors
ARK Investment ManagementDFJ GrowthTiger Global Management
2025-12-19Post Ipo Equity· $4.2M
2025-08-05Post Ipo Debt· $2.6B
2025-03-04Post Ipo Equity· $8M
Leadership Team
Brian Armstrong
CEO & Co-Founder
Alesia Haas
Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
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