Engineering Manager (Institutional - Foundations, Onboarding & Growth) at Coinbase — Remote North America

Coinbase Institutional - Making the Future Real

Without us, crypto is just a whitepaper. We make it real. Coinbase Institutional builds cutting-edge platforms that allow thousands of the world’s largest financial institutions to trade, custody, and participate in the global cryptoeconomy. From launching industry "firsts" to scaling secure infrastructure for hundreds of digital assets, we provide the trusted gateways for staking, governance, and web3. Whether it’s prime brokerage or international markets, we are building the scalable tech and seamless UI that empowers the biggest players on the planet to move money forward.

Join us, and build the infrastructure for what’s next.

The Onboarding & Growth team within Institutional Client Lifecycle owns the end-to-end onboarding and activation journey for all Coinbase Institutional products, from first application and KYC/KYB through provisioning to initial activation across our product suite. We sit at the front door of Coinbase’s institutional business, defining how quickly and seamlessly the world’s leading institutions can onboard onto our products. You’ll solve complex engineering problems across onboarding workflows, data validation, document review, and third-party integrations, and increasingly leveraging ML and AI to build automations. You will be managing the domain by partnering closely with product and other cross-functional teams to design and deliver onboarding and growth experiences and unlock measurable customer activation for the broader business.

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

Lead the engineering teams responsible for building the mission critical systems powering institutional products that shape the crypto landscape.

Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers, and senior leadership to translate our vision into a tangible roadmap. Break down complex projects into smaller pieces and lead the iterative design and implementation process.

Be a thoughtful technical voice within the team, aiding in diligent architectural decisions and fostering a culture of high-quality and operational excellence. Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to ensure successful delivery and operation of complex, distributed systems at scale.

Coach your direct reports to have a positive impact on the organization and support their career growth.

Work closely with our talent organization to identify and recruit exceptional engineers who align with Coinbase's culture and contribute to our products.

Contribute to and take ownership of processes that drive engineering quality and meet our engineering SLAs.

What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):

At least 7 years of experience in software engineering.

At least 1 year of engineering management experience.

An ability to balance long-term strategic thinking with short-term planning.

Experience in creating, delivering, and operating multi-tenanted, distributed systems at scale.

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.

Your passion for building an open financial system that brings the world together drives you to excel in this role.

Nice to haves:

You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from 10 to 100s of engineers)

You have experience with Blockchains (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc.)

You’ve worked with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Sinatra, Rails, Postgres

You’ve built financial, high reliability or security systems

Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services.

Job #: P75802

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Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).