Coinbase is looking to build the emerging onchain platform and the future global financial system. The Consumer Portfolio Team needs to provide a low-latency platform for balance, position, and performance tracking for millions of users and billions of transactions, requiring high reliability and performance in a trading and financial technology context.
Requirements
- 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.
- Experience with trading systems or portfolio management products.
- 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).
Responsibilities
- Serve as the technical leader and strategist for the Consumer Portfolio team, defining multi-quarter technical strategies that intersect multiple financial products.
- Architect, develop, and own distributed systems that power low-latency portfolio tracking for all Consumer users.
- 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.
Other
- 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.
- Passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system.
- 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.
- Will run towards, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems.
