Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Growth & App Infra)

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.

While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first, we are not remote-only. In-person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment. Attendance is expected and fully supported.

Org Overview:

Consumer & Business Group (CBG)’s mission at Coinbase ​​is to become the #1 financial app in the world, focusing on delivering exceptional consumer and business experiences across financial services, trading, and growth initiatives.

The Growth org’s vision, within CBG, is to grow Coinbase to a billion active users globally, by driving sustainable user growth through innovative acquisition, engagement and retention strategies, and building foundational infrastructure that supports long-term growth. 

Team Overview:

The Growth org builds features, products and systems that repeatedly and predictably drive user growth, through rapid and systematic execution. As a growth org, we take a holistic view of the user’s Coinbase journey, with teams focused on user acquisition, engagement and retention. 

Responsibilities: 

We hire and cultivate a world class growth management teams 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.

How do we do it?

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.

The Role:

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to join our team and build out the next generation of crypto-forward products and features. You will solve unique, large scale, highly complex technical problems, bridging the constraints posed by web-scale applications and blockchain technology. You will help build the next generation of systems to make cryptocurrency accessible to everyone across the globe, operating real-time applications with high frequency, low latency updates, and managing the most secure infrastructure running in the cloud.

What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):

• Partner with the Head of Growth Engineering, EMs, and Product Managers to define and build mission critical systems to enable user growth.
• Build foundational systems that power growth across Coinbase: incentives platform, notifications platform and dynamic presentation system.
• Build and scale user experiences across all parts of the Coinbase product experience from SEO, logged out experience, user onboarding, search, discovery and referrals.
• Drive a holistic and unified engineering strategy that delivers engineering quality and excellence across the organization.

What we look for in you:

• Ability to drive multi-quarter roadmaps with complex dependencies within and outside the Growth team.
• Strong track record of "horizontal" technical leadership across multiple engineering teams.
• Ability to drive quality and performance across complex systems at scale and understand what metrics and SLOs reflect product quality and how to move them.

Nice to haves:

• Strong cross-functional partnership skills, as this role spans across all of Growth Engineering.
• Experience working across all parts of the stack.
• Excited about working in a fast-paced environment.
• Excited and motivated about delivering impact to the business.

Job #:

P72382

Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, 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, vision and 401(k)).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):: $253,895 USD - $298,700 USD

Please be advised that each candidate may submit a maximum of four applications within any 30-day period. We encourage you to carefully evaluate how your skills and interests align with Coinbase's roles before applying.

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

Coinbase is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law. Coinbase will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.  For US applicants, you may view the Employee Rights and the Know Your Rights notices by clicking on their corresponding links. Additionally, Coinbase participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. 

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AI Disclosure

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. A human recruiter will review your interview responses, provided in the form of a voice recording and/or transcript, to assess them against the qualifications and characteristics outlined in the job description.

For select roles, Coinbase is also piloting an AI interview intelligence platform to transcribe and summarize interview notes, allowing our interviewers to fully focus on you as the candidate.

The above pilots are for testing purposes and Coinbase will not use AI to make decisions impacting employment . To request a reasonable accommodation due to disability, please contact accommodations[at]coinbase.com