About the role
About the company:
Founded in June of 2012, Coinbase is a digital currency wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with new digital currencies like bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin. Our vision is to bring more innovation, efficiency, and equality of opportunity to the world by building an open financial system. Our first step on that journey is making digital currency accessible and approachable for everyone. Two principles guide our efforts. First, be the most trusted company in our domain. Second, create user-focused products that are easier and more intuitive to use.
What you'll be doing (ie. job duties):
Build new services to meet critical product and business needs using Golang.
Design scalable systems to solve novel problems with modern cloud technology and industry best practices.
Work with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter.
Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.
Debugging extremely difficult technical problems, and making systems and products both work better and are easier to deploy, own, operate and diagnose.
Review all feature designs within your product area and across the company for cross-cutting projects.
Be an owner of the security, safety, scale, operational integrity, and architectural clarity of these designs.
Build pipelines to integrate with 3rd party vendors
What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):
You have at least 2+ years of experience in software engineering.
You've designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture.
You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.
You're passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together.
You possess strong technical skills for system design and coding
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and a bias toward open, transparent cultural practices
Nice to haves:
Familiarity with working in rapid growth environments
Experience in Ruby, Go, and Terraform
Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud environment
Experience designing and building reliable systems
Experience working in a highly regulated environment
Experience writing company-facing blog posts and training materials
About the company
Founded in June of 2012, Coinbase is a digital currency wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with new digital currencies like bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin. Our vision is to bring more innovation, efficiency, and equality of opportunity to the world by building an open financial system. Our first step on that journey is making digital currency accessible and approachable for everyone. Two principles guide our efforts. First, be the most trusted company in our domain. Second, create user-focused products that are easier and more intuitive to use.
