Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Growth & App Infra)

coinbaseRemotegreenhouse
Posted Date:

November 29, 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.

Org Overview:

Consumer & Business Group (CBG)’s mission at Coinbase ​​is to become the #1 financial app in the world, focusing on delivering exceptional consumer and business experiences across financial services, trading, and growth initiatives.

The Growth org’s vision, within CBG, is to grow Coinbase to a billion active users globally, by driving sustainable user growth through innovative acquisition, engagement and retention strategies, and building foundational infrastructure that supports long-term growth.

Team Overview:

The Growth org builds features, products and systems that repeatedly and predictably drive user growth, through rapid and systematic execution. As a growth org, we take a holistic view of the user’s Coinbase journey, with teams focused on user acquisition, engagement and retention.

Responsibilities:

We’re looking for Staff Software Engineers to balance the role of an individual contributor while also anchoring new projects, leading technical direction and mentoring other engineers on the team. We highly value individuals with intellectual curiosity and openness. We collaborate across the organization, helping our engineers think big and take risks while building a culture of diversity, positive energy and blameless truth-seeking. Our engineering team leverages a diverse tech stack and our focus is finding smart engineers who’ve worked on complex projects and we have all the trust you’d be able to pick up whatever tech necessary in the stack. We hire and cultivate a world class growth engineering team with below attributes as our DNA:

Impact-Driven

      • Motivated by having impact. Excited about delivering outcomes vs outputs.
      • Full-stack minded. Willing and able to quickly pursue and validate any idea or hypothesis, with the skill to tackle problems that span product, backend systems, ML, data and more. Not everyone needs to be full-stack, but we encourage it when it will enable flexibility and velocity.
      • Data-driven. Identifies and pursues high impact opportunities, backed by data.

High Agency

      • Understands how their work will drive meaningful impact to the growth of Coinbase.
      • Takes accountability and actively seeks out opportunities to deliver results.
      • Is equipped with all the tools and skills to build products and systems quickly.

High Velocity

      • Preferred mode of operation is fast. Genuinely motivated and energized by moving quickly.
      • Knows how to balance velocity and quality. Understand the importance of sustainable velocity, and prioritize simplicity when possible.
      • Invests in tools, systems and processes to increase velocity, as well as builds organizational relationships and cross-team expertise to break down organizational barriers that could hinder execution speed.