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.
We're seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Consumer Cash team, which provides the foundational cash layer for Coinbase’s Consumer business.
As a Staff Engineer, you will be the technical anchor for Cash services, defining the architecture and roadmap for core cash capabilities.
You will be part of the vision to build a compelling and trusted single cash balance that serves Everything Exchange users’ risk-off needs.
This role is for an engineer who thrives on tackling complex, high-impact distributed systems that require high reliability and performance,especially in a trading and financial technology context.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the technical leader and strategist for the Consumer Cash team, defining multi-quarter technical strategies that intersect multiple financial products.
- Architect, develop, and own distributed systems that power low-latency APIs and event-driven pipelines that process large volumes of cash transactions with strong correctness guarantees.
- 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.
What we look for in you:
- 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.
Nice to haves:
- Experience in payments, banking, wallets, or trading systems, especially transaction processing or ledgering.
- 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).
Job #: 75913
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Pay Transparency Notice: The target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, and vision).
Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):
$217,900-$217,900 CAD