Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - ...

OverviewReady to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of?At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system.To achieve our mission, we’re seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is 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. We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems.Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone. If you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines, there’s no better place to be.While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first, we are not remote-only. 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.The Growth organization drives Coinbase’s mission of bringing the world onchain. By building and leveraging growth tools across multiple avenues, including referral and incentives programs, creating a world-class notifications system, building a dynamic, engaging, and accessible logged-out web experience, and optimizing our new user onboarding flow, we ensure that Coinbase is the easiest, safest, and fastest way to buy, hold, and trade Crypto assets, and ensure our new users are set up for success from their first interaction.What you’ll be doingPartner with the Head of Growth Engineering (Sr. Director of Eng), EMs, and Product Managers to improve incentives infrastructure, primitives and scale up our spend/profitability with high reliability and confidence.Build foundational systems and primitives to drive growth at Coinbase.Build and scale user experience across incentives and rewards services.What we look for in youAbility to drive multi-quarter roadmaps with complex dependencies within and outside the Growth team.Strong track record of "horizontal" technical leadership across a larger team or multiple small teams.Ability to drive quality and performance across complex systems at scale and understand what metrics and SLOs reflect product quality and how to move them.Nice to havesStrong cross-functional partnership skills, as this role spans both incentives experience and infrastructure pods, with potential to support all of Growth.Experience in consumer or growth-focused engineering is a plus.Experience working with ML directly or via APIs is a nice-to-have (understand different online and offline model evaluation techniques, and opportunities for ML to impact and improve core user experience).Pay Transparency Note: Pay Range: $253,895—$298,700 USD. Full-time offers include target bonus, target equity, and benefits. This role is subject to standard employment policies and mitment to Equal Opportunity: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law. Coinbase will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. For US applicants, you may view the Employee Rights and Know Your Rights notices by clicking on their corresponding links. Additionally, Coinbase participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law.Coinbase is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. 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A human recruiter will review responses, provided in the form of a voice recording and/or transcript, to assess them against the qualifications and characteristics outlined in the job description. Coinbase may also pilot an AI interview intelligence platform to transcribe and summarize interview notes. These pilots are for testing purposes and Coinbase will not use AI to make decisions impacting employment. To request a reasonable accommodation due to disability, please contact . Job #: GPBE07US #J-18808-Ljbffr

Created: 2025-09-24