Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of?
At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system.
To achieve our mission, we’re seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up. We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems.
Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone. But if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there’s no better place to be.
The Institutional Product Group is dedicated to creating a top-tier Exchange platform, offering unparalleled low latency and high performance in the crypto trading space. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Exchange team, you’ll be instrumental in developing and sustaining the core technology that drives our platform. Collaborating with a talented group of engineers and product managers, you’ll deliver institutional-grade systems that empower high-value customers to trade with unmatched speed and efficiency. This role presents the opportunity to tackle complex, unique challenges, bridging the demands of large-scale applications with the precision required for low-latency trading systems. You'll be at the forefront of designing, building, and executing solutions for some of the most impactful and challenging problems in the industry.
What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):
- Build new services to meet critical product and business needs using Java, Golang, or similar technologies.
- Design scalable, low latency, garbage free systems to solve novel problems with modern cloud technology and industry best practices.
- Propose enhancements to scale our core trading systems and increase their robustness.
- Work with engineers, product managers, designers and senior leadership to execute our technical vision, with product and customer perspective.
- Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.
What we look for in you:
- 5+ years of experience in backend software engineering using Java, Golang, or similar languages
- You’ve developed and maintained high volume and low latency production services.
- You’re experienced in developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
- You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together
Nice to haves:
- You have experience developing trading systems or matching engines that have high volume and low latency characteristics
- Demonstrated experience working with complex distributed systems at scale
- You are familiar with developing event driven architectures, GC free coding approaches
- Knowledge of AWS infrastructure and tools, as well as containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
- You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from startup to mid-size).
- Experience with growth experiments or A/B testing frameworks.
- You have experience with Blockchain technology (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc..)
- You have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices.
- 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 #: GIBE05US
Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target annual salary for this position can range as detailed below. Full time offers from Coinbase also include target bonus + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).
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