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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.
Coinbase is hiring a Technical Account Manager - API Specialist to support and integrate institutional trading clients onto Coinbase’s exchange and API platform and the ideal candidate should have a background that blends technical expertise with high-level relationship management. This role sits at the intersection of electronic trading, APIs, and production systems and is responsible for onboarding market participants, troubleshooting live trading issues, and ensuring reliable order flow between client trading systems and Coinbase infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
- Client Relationship & Growth:
- Own all technical and product initiatives for assigned accounts, working with Sales and Account Managers to ensure client retention and increase enterprise account penetration.
- Maintain relationships with 50+ clients to provide comprehensive Tier 1-3 coverage.
- Collaborate with Account Managers to map account structures, identify decision-makers, and establish technical operation touch points.
- Product Advocacy & Development:
- Gather product requirements from customers and champion these within Coinbase Product and Engineering teams.
- Work closely with product teams to provide customers with product roadmap updates.
- Develop scalable tactical and strategic solutions to address clients’ technical needs and gaps.
- Build a deep understanding of customer environments and operational constraints, ensuring customer configurations are documented and integrated into the product development lifecycle.
- Implementation & Support:
- Work with assigned accounts to establish well-defined technical and business processes for both cloud and on-premise deployments.
- Coordinate go-to-market strategies for new product features to optimize the customer experience.
- Provide detailed reviews of operational performance, metrics, and service disruptions to both management and customers.
- Offer API development support and best practices guidance to clients during onboarding, covering all Coinbase API suite product lines.
- Assist Engineers in troubleshooting technical issues and service outages for assigned accounts.
- Escalate service outages to Coinbase senior management to ensure timely resolution.
- Create, document and review tools necessary to effectively sell clients on new integrations and products via APIs and developed software.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field required
- Expertise in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space, including familiarity with digital asset infrastructure
- Extensive experience with enterprise software architecture, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (potentially including AWS), and real-time data processing.
- Hands on experience working with standard trading API protocols including FIX, REST, Websockets, and JSON RPC is required
- Essential experience includes integration with traditional financial (TradFi) or crypto exchanges, particularly utilizing FIX protocol. Experience with binary protocols and multicast is also advantageous.
- Understanding of general market dynamics and participants and experience with future and option markets is required,
- Understanding of the importance of latency for clients and impact on trading strategies
- Proficiency in modern programming languages and familiarity with technologies used for building high-speed trading platforms.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills. Ability to engage C level decision makers on product and technology
- Ideal candidate must be self-motivated and develop a deep understanding of Coinbase product and technical stack
- Organized and analytical. Able to distill sophisticated and ambiguous requirements into clear results
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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.
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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
