Hybrid Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Institutional, Markets

at Coinbase

• Job title: Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Institutional, Markets
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, Distributed Systems, Docker, Java, Kafka, Kubernetes, MongoDB, Oracle, Postgres, SQL, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Netherlands

About the role

• Senior Software Engineer focusing on backend services for Coinbase's Institutional markets. Building secure and scalable systems for crypto-forward products and features.

Responsibilities

• Build and enhance services to meet critical product and business needs using Java, Golang and RDS Postgres.
• Design scalable high volume and low-latency systems to solve novel problems with modern cloud technology and industry best practices.
• Work with other engineers, designers and product managers 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.
• Maintain production services and Database infrastructure

Requirements

• You have at least 5 years of experience in software engineering.
• You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained critical low-latency production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture.
• You’ve good awareness of at least one of the major SQL or No-SQL databases - Postgres, SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB; and interest in optimizing and maintaining them.
• You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together.
• Domain experience with crypto, derivatives or other financial products is a nice to have.
• You know what high quality code looks like and know how to foster an environment that maintains a high quality bar is a nice to have.
• Execution focused with an ability to navigate ambiguity is a nice to have.
• Experience architecting complex distributed systems at scale is a nice to have.
• You have built trading systems or matching engines that have high volume and low latency characteristics is a nice to have.
• You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from startup to mid-size) is a nice to have.
• You’ve worked with Java, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka and Postgres is a nice to have.
• You’ve built Ad-Tech, financial and or, SaaS systems is a nice to have.

Benefits

• In-person participation is required throughout the year
• Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually