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

• Architect and develop distributed systems
• 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
• Design and implement foundational infrastructure components used by every engineering team in production (e.g. dynamic configuration, secrets storage, container orchestration, etc)
• 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 International 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.
• Navigate the project through unusually high uncertainties such as:
  • Dynamic product charters to cater to rapidly changing crypto-landscape
  • Crypto bear /bull cycles (volatile stock prices, FUD etc.)
  • Delivering top quality products in a very tight timeframe, on top of platforms which are constantly in a state of flux
• Being the end-integration layer, be extremely comfortable with dealing with an exceptionally high level of uncertainty and a steep learning curve of working with new platforms /teams across and outside of Coinbase

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

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering
• You’ve experienced architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
• 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 have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from 10 to 100s of engineers)
• You have experience with Blockchains (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc.)
• You have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices
• You’ve worked with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Sinatra, Rails, Postgres
• You’ve built financial, high reliability or security systems