Engineering Manager

The International Team in Coinbase is tasked with expanding the presence and reach of Coinbase products to countries across the globe. We enable easy access to fiat payment rails and ensure a smooth and delightful onboarding experience that meets our high bar on regulatory compliance to customers in countries where Coinbase is present.
In parallel we are exploring products that make sense in the context of the particular country/region.

You will join the Trade Readiness team within the International org, which will work across engineering platforms that are critical for expanding Coinbase across the globe. Your core set of priorities in support of our mission first culture will include:

• Going deep in key countries
• Going broad in other countries
• Improving the conversion funnels (Onboarding and MTU) of users across the globe
• Innovating with region specific use-cases (e.g. GameFi in SE Asia / SME DeFi financing in India etc.)

What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):

• Hands-on with coding along with leading a team of ICs
• Plan and Implement the multi-quarter strategy for International engineering 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 products in a very tight timeframe, on top of platforms which are constantly in a state of flux
• Being the end-integration layer, be extremely comfortable with dealing with an exceptionally high level of uncertainty and a steep learning curve of working with new platforms /teams across and outside of Coinbase

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’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together.

Nice to haves:

• You’ve built financial, high reliability or security systems.
• You’ve some exposure to L1 and L2 blockchains
• Proficiency in Golang