Lead Software Engineer - Consumer Products

The Consumer Product Group builds the sustainable engines of growth for Coinbase that bring open financial services to 1 billion people with products like Advanced Trading, Staking, and Coinbase One. Consumer product engineers strive to make the Coinbase retail app the easiest-to-use, fastest, and safest experience for everyone across the globe to access and participate in the cryptoeconomy. 

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.

Responsibilities: 

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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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 target bonus + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).Pay Range: $211,650—$249,000 USD

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 target bonus + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).

Pay Range:$211,650—$249,000 USD