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 Platform Product Group’s mission is to build a trusted, scalable, and compliant platform to maximize velocity, efficiency and quality. They build the foundations that can be used by multiple products and teams at Coinbase so that users can have a consistent and high-quality experience.
The Consumer Engineering Test Infrastructure team focuses on accelerating the development of high quality products by enabling validation of product behaviors at scale through automated test infrastructure. We are entirely engineering driven, identifying opportunities to enable developers to test high-fidelity production behaviors during development to enable catching and fixing bugs as early in the development cycle as possible. We are seeking an experienced and dynamic lead Software Engineer to join our team, and drive the technical strategy.This role is pivotal in driving automation and establishing a robust testing culture within the broader Consumer organization.
It also offers a unique opportunity to build the team from the ground up. The ideal candidate will be responsible for leading and mentoring a team of SWEs, and drive business impact in terms of high-quality Consumer products at Coinbase.
What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):
Test Strategy and Infrastructure
- Set the technical strategy and roadmap for test automation
- Evaluate and introduce automated testing infrastructure and methodologies to improve product quality
- Oversee the creation and execution of test plans, test cases, and test scripts, to inform automation opportunities
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and streamline the testing process within the development lifecycle
Leadership and stakeholder management
- Mentor a team of engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation
- Define testing best-practices and drive culture change within product teams to adopt them
- Partner effectively with stakeholders and align on outcomes
- Provide regular status updates to stakeholders on testing progress and quality outcomes
Metrics and Insights
- Ensure thorough coverage across functional, integration, performance, and security testing
- Understand quality gaps, develop insights and drive best practices for testing, defect tracking and resolution
What we look for in you:
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering shipping large-scale products
- You are passionate about development and production excellence
- You’ve experienced architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
- You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together
Nice to have:
- Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services.
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