Coinbase · 15 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer, Frontend (Institutional - Prime UI Platform)
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 Prime UI Platform Team. In this role, you will design and build core UI platform systems, drive improvements in performance and reliability, and partner closely with frontend engineers to translate scaling pain points into platform solutions.
FinTechCrypto & Web3PaymentsBitcoinBlockchainCryptocurrencyTrading Platform
Responsibilities
Design, build, and own core UI platform systems used across all frontend surfaces
Drive improvements in reliability, performance, and latency at the platform level
Build and evolve backend-for-frontend APIs (REST/GraphQL) that serve our UI surfaces, with focus on scalability, security, and clean abstractions
Lead architecture and technical directions for improvements to real-time data streams (WebSocket/SSE)
Partner closely with frontend engineers and product teams to understand scaling pain points, and translate them into platform solutions
Serve as a technical multiplier: unblock teams, review high-impact changes, mentor other engineers across frontend and product teams
Enable developer velocity by improving local dev, builds, CI/CD, testing, release pipelines, and observability
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
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
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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
2026-02-09
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