Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - International)

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Posted Date:

October 1, 2025

Employment Type:

Not specified

Work Arrangement:

Remote

Skills & Technologies

Engineering - Backendpreferred

Contact Information

Job Description

Ready 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. But if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, 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.

Join the pioneering Country Expansion team at Coinbase and help shape the future of cryptocurrency adoption.

As the Tech Lead Manager for a team that spans multiple countries across Americas (except US), you will partner with Country Directors, Product Managers, Customer Support and be responsible for ensuring delivery of growth initiatives in strategic markets for Coinbase.

This is an exciting and unique opportunity to be at the forefront of Coinbase's intensified focus on international growth. You will have a direct impact on making Coinbase the best cryptocurrency platform. In this role, you will help create the industry-leading standard for customer experience in the crypto space.

The Country Expansion team prides itself on being innovative and customer-centric. It is an A-team where you can fuel your passion for building world-class products that ignite cryptocurrency adoption worldwide.

What you’ll be doing:

    • For the first 6 months, you will act as the tech lead, focusing on technical projects and directly contributing to code. Following this period, you will transition to managing direct reports.
    • Spend at least 25% of your time being a strong individual contributor, driving the engineering quality and velocity of the team by being an exemplary practitioner
    • Build high-performance services using Golang and gRPC, creating seamless integrations that elevate Coinbase's customer experience
    • Be a thoughtful technical voice within the team, aiding in diligent architectural decisions and fostering a culture of high-quality code and engineering processes. Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to ensure successful delivery and operation of multi-tenanted, distributed systems at scale.
    • Partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders to define strategic product roadmaps and make direct impacts on Coinbase’s international expansion
    • Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise
    • Mentor and coach team members on system design techniques and coding standards
    • Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers

What we look for in you:

    • 8+ years of experience in software engineering
    • You’ve experienced architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
    • 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 Blockchain technology (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Base etc..)
    • You have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices
    • You’ve worked with Golang, Protobuf, Docker, MongoDB, Postgres, AWS
    • You’ve built financial, high reliability or security systems
  • Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interact