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Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Growth Foundations)

Coinbase· Consumer & Business
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Hybrid (Canada)CA$191.1kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Backend Engineer on the Growth Foundations team building scalable core infrastructure that powers growth initiatives across Coinbase, including notifications, incentives and referrals, user targeting, lifecycle communications, and ML ranking for web and app surfaces.

Responsibilities

  • Own the design and delivery of scalable distributed backend services that handle high QPS, low latency, and high reliability requirements for growth infrastructure
  • Architect resilient service-oriented systems using modern cloud technologies, contributing across backend, data, and ML layers of the stack
  • Partner with engineers, designers, product managers, and senior leadership to translate product and technical vision into quarterly roadmaps
  • Lead investments in developer tooling, shared platform capabilities, and cross-team relationships that increase organizational velocity
  • Build high-quality, well-tested production code for systems that are secure, reliable, and maintainable at scale
  • Drive rapid experimentation by building and iterating on growth features that deliver measurable impact to user acquisition and retention

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional backend software engineering experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services in distributed environments
  • Demonstrated expertise in server-side architecture including performance optimization, security, scalability, and containerized environments (e.g., AWS, Kubernetes, Docker)
  • Proven ability to design and run growth experiments or A/B tests, using data to identify and prioritize high-impact opportunities
  • Experience integrating with databases, caching layers, and storage solutions (e.g., Postgres, MongoDB, DynamoDB) in high-throughput systems
  • Track record of collaborating cross-functionally with product and engineering teams to deliver end-to-end solutions from scoping through production monitoring in a high velocity environment
  • Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Skills

Required:Backend software engineeringServer-side architectureGrowth experiments / A/B testingDatabase integrationsCross-functional collaboration
Nice to have:Generative AI usage

Benefits

  • Extended Health Care Benefit - (coordinates with Provincial Coverage)
  • Dental Care
  • Vision Care
  • Consult+ (Virtual Health Care)
  • Life & Accident Insurance
  • Disability Coverage
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
  • Wellness Stipend
  • Mobile/Internet Reimbursement
  • Learning and Development Allowance
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Travel Medical Policy - Global Traveler
  • Fertility Benefits
  • Generous Time off/Leave Policy
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Coinbase

Buy, sell, and manage cryptocurrencies.

Founded in June of 2012, Coinbase is a digital currency wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with new digital currencies like bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin. Our vision is to bring more innovation, efficiency, and equality of opportunity to the world by building an open financial system. Our first step on that journey is making digital currency accessible and approachable for everyone. Two principles guide our efforts. First, be the most trusted company in our domain. Second, create user-focused products that are easier and more intuitive to use.

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