Summary

We are looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join the Payments team at Coinbase. Our team is diligently crafting innovative payment solutions aimed at empowering both individual consumers and large-scale institutions within the cryptocurrency ecosystem. We are developing state-of-the-art payment infrastructures, workflows and APIs, to facilitate the seamless transition of traditional currency into the crypto landscape, thereby enhancing financial access.

Our payment solutions are designed with a focus on simplicity and scalability, aiming to drive widespread adoption of crypto-centric products such as Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Decentralized Applications (DApps), and cryptocurrency exchanges.

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

1. Architect and develop payments platform for processing billions of $s of payments across the globe
2. Provide technical structure to teams and work closely with management and stakeholders to define strategic roadmaps
3. Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise
4. Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards
5. Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
6. Hands-on with coding
7. Plan and Implement the multi-year strategy for Payments engineering with the technical leadership on your team
8. Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter
9. Add positive energy in every meeting, and make your coworkers feel included in every interaction
10. Engage with upstream teams and enforce SLAs for data availability and quality

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

:

1. 12+ years of experience in software engineering
2. You’ve 2+ years of experience in architecting big data systems around technologies like Apache Spark and Hive
3. Experience in uplevelling junior engineers via processes and setting a high bar for them to follow
4. You know what high quality code — and software engineering processes — look like and know how to foster an environment that creates them
5. You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together

Nice to haves:

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

Note - This role is based out of India and will need individuals to relocate to India

Skills

• Database Management
• Development
• Software Architecture
• Software Engineering
• SQL