Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Platform

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About Coinbase

Founded in 2012, Coinbase is on a mission to increase economic freedom for more than 1 billion people globally. With $300+ billion USD traded in a single quarter in 100+ countries, our team of mission-driven overachievers is helping update the centuries-old financial system by establishing itself as the most trusted place for people and businesses to buy, sell, and use crypto. 

The mission of the Platform engineers is to build a trusted, scalable and compliant platform to operate with speed, efficiency and quality. Our teams build and maintain the platforms critical to the existence of Coinbase. There are many teams that make up this group which include Product Foundations (i.e. Identity, Payment, Risk, Proofing & Regulatory, Finhub), Machine Learning, Customer Experience, and Infrastructure.

The Identity and Regulatory team is responsible for developing a platform that allows users to onboard and access Coinbase and its products. Our goal is to establish Coinbase as the most trusted platform for billions of customers while meeting the highest regulatory standards in the industry. We aim to create a unified, trusted, and secure platform for customer identity, seamless access, and authorization across all Coinbase products and the wider crypto ecosystem.

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

• Architect and develop platform for the identity and regulatory
• Provide technical structure to teams and work closely with management and stakeholders to define strategic roadmaps
• Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise
• Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards
• Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
• Hands-on with coding
• Plan and Implement the multi-year strategy for Identity and Regulatory engineering with the technical leadership on your team
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter
• Add positive energy in every meeting, and make your coworkers feel included in every interaction
• Engage with upstream teams and enforce  SLAs for data availability and quality

What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering
• You’ve 4+ years of experience in architecting big data systems around technologies like Apache Spark and Hive
• Experience in uplevelling junior engineers via processes and setting a high bar for them to follow
• You know what high quality code — and software engineering processes — look like and know how to foster an environment that creates them
• You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together

Nice to haves:

• You’ve worked with Golang, gRPC, Docker and SQL
• You’ve have experience of working with finance and accounting teams
• You’ve experience in performance tuning of big data systems

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