Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack (Developer - CDP API)
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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.
The CDP APIs are the easiest way for developers to get started with building crypto applications. Conceived by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, these APIs enable those with no prior knowledge of crypto to begin using crypto in under 30 seconds. The CDP APIs are positioned to bring the next million developers onchain, enabling trading, lending, payments, and more.
The CDP API team owns both server-side APIs and client-side libraries across different languages. The team seeks a backend engineer who is passionate about all aspects of excellent developer experiences: authoring clear and informative documentation, building compelling onboarding flows, interacting directly with customers to incorporate feedback, architecting delightfully simple APIs, etc. The engineer must be comfortable operating in both frontend and backend codebases, fluent across a variety of programming languages, and demonstrate both high code velocity and quality simultaneously. The CDP API team consists of some of the most prolific and tenured software engineers at Coinbase, and is excited to ship a game-changing set of APIs and SDKs at breakneck speed.
What you’ll be doing:
- Design, develop, and maintain ergonomic, open-source SDKs for embedded wallets using Typescript, React, React Native, Android, iOS, Unity, and Flutter
- Build scalable interaction patterns involving end user authentication using OAuth, PKCE, Email/SNS OTP, and Passkeys
- Interface with and conformant HTTP REST API definitions using OpenAPI specifications
- Author, publish, and maintain clear and concise documentation, including quickstart and how-to guides, to increase adoption of the SDKs
- Work closely with many different teams at Coinbase to integrate embedded wallets into internal products, ensuring consistency of concepts, style, and design
- Work directly with customers to collect their feedback and iteratively improve the APIs and SDKs
- Evangelize the SDK in the crypto community to gain greater adoption
- Build compelling sample applications end-to-end using the embedded wallets SDKs to demonstrate their value and pressure-test the developer experience
- Troubleshoot and debug complex fullstack issues, ensuring stability, reliability, and security
- Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to maintain high code quality standards
What we look for in you:
- 5+ years of experience in fullstack development
- Fluency in Typescript, React, and React Native, and strong experience in at least one of the following: Android, iOS, Unity, Flutter
- Experience with user authentication, Identity and Access Management systems, public key cryptography, browser and mobile persistent storage mechanisms
- Established reputation in open source communities, with operational knowledge of how to grow adoption of GitHub repos
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, streaming-based systems, and event-driven architectures
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with an eye for detail and a passion for clear, comprehensive developer documentation
- Fluency with crypto wallets, including key management, cryptography, and blockchain protocols (e.g. EVM, Solana)
- Understanding of security best practices and experience with implementing secure coding practices for financial systems
Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target annual salary for this position can range as detailed below. Full time offers from Coinbase also include bonus eligibility + equity eligibility + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).
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 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 Employee Rights and the 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 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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AI Disclosure
For select roles, Coinbase is piloting an AI tool based on machine learning technologies to conduct initial screening interviews to qualified applicants. The tool simulates realistic interview scenarios and engages in dynamic conversation. A human recruiter will review your interview 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.
For select roles, Coinbase is also piloting an AI interview intelligence platform to transcribe and summarize interview notes, allowing our interviewers to fully focus on you as the candidate.
The above 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 accommodations[at]coinbase.com
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Coinbase is an American publicly traded company operating a cryptocurrency exchange platform. They are a distributed company and all employees operate via remote work.
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