Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Stablecoin)

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Stablecoin team, responsible for building platforms and infrastructure for Stablecoin issuance, growth, and utility. This team plays a crucial role in enhancing the stablecoin ecosystem at Coinbase, including developing a Rewards Orchestration System that offers rewards to both retail and institutional customers across various Coinbase product surfaces such as Retail, Exchange, Prime, Custody, and Neptune.

The Stablecoin team comprises seven members, including two IC3s, one IC4, two IC5s, and one IC6, with three open headcounts. The new hire will have opportunities for both mentoring and being mentored. The team works closely with two sister teams focused on Stablecoins UX for Retail and adding new Stablecoins internationally.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Stablecoin team, you will drive projects that create more utility around stablecoins. You will contribute to or build platforms for stablecoin issuance and growth, and you will be the Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for your projects. Immediate projects include issuing Canadian and Singaporean stablecoins and deploying stablecoins on more chains across multiple products such as Retail, Exchange, Prime, and Custody.

What you’ll be doing (job duties):

• Develop new services to meet critical product and business needs using industry best practices.
• Architect and design scalable systems to solve novel problems.
• Define a long-term vision for maintaining and scaling our backend systems and teams.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers, and senior leadership to turn our vision into a quarterly roadmap.
• Serve as a technical lead and subject matter expert.
• Write high-quality, well-tested code to meet customer needs.

What we look for in you:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in software engineering.
• Experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services, and knowledge of service-oriented architecture.
• Proficiency in writing high-quality, well-tested code.
• Passion for building an open financial system that brings the world together.
• Leadership skills to develop other engineers.

Nice to haves:

• Experience in rapid company growth (from startup to mid-size).
• Familiarity with growth experiments or A/B testing frameworks.
• Experience with Blockchain technology (e.g., Bitcoin, Ethereum).
• Experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices.
• Proficiency with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Rails, Postgres, MongoDB, or DynamoDB.
• Experience in building 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.

Job #: GCBE05US

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

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For select roles, Coinbase is piloting an AI tool based on machine learning technologies to conduct initial screening interviews to qualified applicants. The tool simulates realistic interview scenarios and engages in dynamic conversation. Your interview responses, in the form of a voice recording and/or transcript will be assessed in terms of the job qualifications and characteristics listed in the position description above by a human recruiter.  

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 the specifics regarding which tool(s) will be used as part of the interview process.  

These interview tools enable us to give a greater number of candidates an initial interview who meet our mandatory hiring criteria. The above pilots are for testing purposes and Coinbase will not use AI to make an employment decision. To request a reasonable accommodation due to disability, please contact [email protected].