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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.
The mission of the Platform Product Group engineers is to build a trusted, scalable and compliant platform to operate with speed, efficiency and quality. Our teams build and maintain the platforms critical to the existence of Coinbase. There are many teams that make up this group which include Product Foundations (i.e. Identity, Payment, Risk, Proofing & Regulatory, Finhub), Machine Learning, Customer Experience, and Infrastructure.
The onboarding platform team is tasked with creating a platform for user onboarding and KYC requirements. This will enable Coinbase to launch new products or expand to new countries quickly, while maintaining the compliance and regulatory requirements.
You will join the Onboarding Platform team within the larger platform org your core set of priorities in support of our mission first culture will include:
- Building onboarding platforms that can scale effectively across countries and products.
- Improving the conversion funnels (Onboarding and MTU) of users across the globe
What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):
- Hands-on architecture along with leading a team of ICs
- Plan and Implement the multi-quarter strategy for Onboarding Platform with the technical leadership on your team
- Coach your direct reports to have a positive impact on the organization and chart a fulfilling career path.
- Be a thoughtful technical voice and support your team in making diligent architectural decisions.
- Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter.
- Work with our talent organization to source and hire amazing engineers who will expand the Coinbase culture and product.
- Add positive energy in every meeting, and make your coworkers feel included in every interaction.
- Contribute to owning and delivering processes to drive engineering quality and meet our engineering SLAs.
- Navigate the team 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 platforms while serving the needs of all the stakeholders
What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):
- At least 10+ years of experience in software engineering.
- At least 2+ years of engineering management experience.
- Comfortable managing engineers working across frontend and backend technologies
- You have designed, built, and scaled production applications and very hands-on in leading a team of highly competent engineers
- You know what high quality code — and software engineering processes — look like and know how to foster an environment that creates them.
- You can be hands-on when needed – whether that’s writing/reviewing code or technical documents, participating in on-call rotations and leading incidents, or triaging/troubleshooting bugs.
- Deep customer empathy for our primary customer stakeholders.
- Strong verbal and written communication. Able to articulate vision and influence stakeholders across the company.
- Proven experience landing large initiatives, making an impact across the company that changed the status quo.
- You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together.
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*Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate your onchain experience
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Please be advised that each candidate may submit a maximum of four applications within any 30-day period. We encourage you to carefully evaluate how your skills and interests align with Coinbase's roles before applying.
Commitment to Equal Opportunity
Coinbase is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be 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 Know Your Rights notice here. Additionally, Coinbase participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law.
Coinbase is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please contact us at accommodations[at]coinbase.com to let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. For quick access to screen reading technology compatible with this site click here to download a free compatible screen reader (free step by step tutorial can be found here).
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