Coinbase · 20 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Growth & App Infra)
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, seeking a passionate Staff Software Engineer to join their Growth organization. This role involves architecting and developing distributed systems, mentoring team members, and driving impactful user growth through innovative features and infrastructure.
BitcoinBlockchainCryptocurrencyFinTechTrading Platform
Responsibilities
We’re looking for Staff Software Engineers to balance the role of an individual contributor while also anchoring new projects, leading technical direction and mentoring other engineers on the team
We highly value individuals with intellectual curiosity and openness
We collaborate across the organization, helping our engineers think big and take risks while building a culture of diversity, positive energy and blameless truth-seeking
Our engineering team leverages a diverse tech stack and our focus is finding smart engineers who’ve worked on complex projects and we have all the trust you’d be able to pick up whatever tech necessary in the stack
We hire and cultivate a world class growth engineering team with below attributes as our DNA: Impact-Driven Motivated by having impact. Excited about delivering outcomes vs outputs. Full-stack minded. Willing and able to quickly pursue and validate any idea or hypothesis, with the skill to tackle problems that span product, backend systems, ML, data and more. Not everyone needs to be full-stack, but we encourage it when it will enable flexibility and velocity. Data-driven. Identifies and pursues high impact opportunities, backed by data
High Agency Understands how their work will drive meaningful impact to the growth of Coinbase. Takes accountability and actively seeks out opportunities to deliver results. Is equipped with all the tools and skills to build products and systems quickly
High Velocity Preferred mode of operation is fast. Genuinely motivated and energized by moving quickly. Knows how to balance velocity and quality. Understand the importance of sustainable velocity, and prioritize simplicity when possible. Invests in tools, systems and processes to increase velocity, as well as builds organizational relationships and cross-team expertise to break down organizational barriers that could hinder execution speed
We're building a world-class growth engine by developing features, products, and systems that consistently deliver user value from their first interaction to their entire journey with Coinbase. We do this in a systematic way by: Rapidly launching, iterating and optimizing new and existing features and products to grow Coinbase. Building resilient and scalable systems that unlock growth at scale, and enable us to build, maintain and iterate on features and products even faster. Touching all parts of the stack including: web, mobile, backend, data and ML
Architect and develop distributed systems
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
Design and implement foundational infrastructure components used by every engineering team in production (e.g. dynamic configuration, secrets storage, container orchestration, etc)
Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
Qualification
Required
8+ years of experience in software engineering
You've experienced architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
You're passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together
Preferred
You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from 10 to 100s of engineers)
You have experience with Blockchains (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc.)
You have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices
You've worked with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Sinatra, Rails, Postgres
You've built financial, high reliability or security systems
Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services
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
H1B Sponsorship
Coinbase has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (181)
2024 (92)
2023 (96)
2022 (284)
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$4.45BKey Investors
ARK Investment ManagementDFJ Growth,DG VENTURESTiger Global Management
2025-08-05Post Ipo Debt· $2.6B
2025-03-04Post Ipo Equity· $8M
2024-03-13Post Ipo Debt· $1.1B
Leadership Team
Brian Armstrong
CEO & Co-Founder
Alesia Haas
Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
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