Tech team is expanding rapidly to keep pace with the ambitious feature roadmap the company has set out. This role involves helping to define the roadmap and find the best technical solutions to help customers. Also, you will have time to run some experiments and bring new ideas to the table.
Coinbase is seeking experienced backend engineers to join the team to 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.
This role involves architecture, backend Ruby programming, and honing the integrity and performance of a PostgreSQL database where Rails is not the only client. You should be an excellent writer and asynchronous communicator. As a leader on our engineering team, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor other engineers, and drive innovation in our product offerings.
Build and improve our industry-leading commercial real estate CRM products by closely working with product team members. Build, maintain, and refine our industry-leading CRE marketing tools and regularly build backend (Rails) and frontend (React) features. Help your team lead break large projects and requirements into smaller components and estimate that work. Work with your team’s Product Manager and UX Designer to ensure great user experience.
Write beautiful code in Ruby and Rails, often for new features and new products/platforms. Work with a SCRUM team, discussing the best architecture for features and diving deep into Design Patterns. You'll work closely with Product Managers and Engineering leaders (CTO & VPs) as well as other engineers to accomplish larger objectives. Use good coding standards, write clear documentation, and think through architectural decisions.
Unite and grow three functional areas, partner tightly with Product Management, and ensure the marketing automation suite scales reliably and elegantly. Split time between hands-on coding (≈50%), project execution (≈30%), and one-on-ones, coaching, and resource allocation (≈20%). Balance technical vision with day-to-day delivery and champion AI-driven developer tooling.
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Developer Productivity - Local Environments team, you will define, maintain and enhance the local development experience. You will be responsible for ensuring environments are consistently working, troubleshooting issues, streamlining initial setups, and driving improvements to tooling and processes. Crucially, you will also be exploring and implementing innovative ways to leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) to optimize our development environments.
Implement new features aligned with product goals, collaborating with engineers within an Agile Framework. Develop iteratively, focusing on high-volume and highly available systems. Work within a Service Oriented Architecture, maintaining, fixing, debugging, refining, and improving our current platform. Own the solutions and be accountable for delivering high quality solutions.
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Developer Productivity - Async team, you will work on improving developer productivity by enhancing the tools and systems used by product engineers. You will focus on asynchronous processing, ensuring that our applications are efficient, reliable, and scalable. Your work will involve maintaining and improving the infrastructure that supports background jobs and asynchronous communication between our applications using technologies such as Sidekiq and Karafka.
Work hand in hand with other engineers in building out interfaces that match designs, consuming and creating data from the backend. Your input will help drive the direction and format of data endpoints and your day to day efforts will include communicating architecture choices to other team members.