The Institutional product group enables the foundations of Coinbase's institutional business supporting thousands of large financial institutions. We enable institutions to custody their digital assets and participate in the crypto economy in a secure and safe way. We take pride in building a scalable & secure crypto platform supporting hundreds of assets and enabling crypto participation with staking, governance and web3 gateways. The team has interesting work on building cutting-edge crypto technologies, scalable infrastructure and UI surfaces across web, mobile and browser extensions in a fast-paced industry with an opportunity to build several new initiatives

The Institutional Financing Engineering team is responsible for building and maintaining the systems required to safely manage billions of dollars of loans across a number of different products, including Portfolio Margin, Trade Finance, Agency Lending, Bilateral Lending and more. Financing is incredibly important to the Prime Brokerage business because it allows customers to use leverage on their trading positions, as well as generate yield on long holdings. Financing products are important because they generate recurring revenue (as opposed to transaction revenue), but it also increases trading activity and encourages assets to be held on platform.

What you'll be doing:

• Design and implement new financing products and features
• Create and build new reporting, monitoring, tools, frameworks and APIs
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our vision into a tangible deliverables every quarter
• Improving developer efficiency, engineering excellence, and operational excellence
• Provide support to operations and other engineering teams
• Mentor team members and help uplift the technical skill set across the team

What we look for in you:

• You have at least 2+ years of experience in software engineering.
• You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture.
• You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.
• You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together.

Nice to haves:

• You’ve worked with some or all of: Golang, Postgres, Kafka, Protobuf, and React.
• You’ve built financial, high reliability or security systems.

Job #: GIBE04US

*Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate your onchain experience.

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Full time - permanent role - Paris or full remote from Western EU - 58-70k€ + shares

We’re looking for a Back-end Engineer at Kiln. We are maintaining about 26 protocols.

1) Building the product: You’ll be working closely with the Product and Infrastructure teams to plan, architect, and implement our core product. You’ll take part in the construction of the roadmap with the rest of the team. In this role, it includes:

• Development of data aggregators for blockchains

• Development of new Golang microservices within the Kiln stack

• Taking part in automation & deployment processes

• Framework development

2) Owning what you build: As you architect, test, and refine the Kiln platform, you will ensure that our services communicate with each other seamlessly, have minimal downtime, and recover quickly (daytime, no on-calls)

3) Helping grow the Team: Everyone on the early team plays an important role in attracting, closing, and growing other talented team members. You can also mentor or brainstorm with other backend developers.

Our stack

• Mostly in Golang with a bit of JavaScript and TypeScript

• Communication between services is done using HTTP Rest, and most of our databases are backed by PostgreSQL

• Everything runs in Kubernetes on GCP

Preferred experience

Skills & background

• Strong communication skills both in French & English to facilitate the design of scalable architectures with SREs

  • French can be a "nice to have" if you have several professional web3 experiences

• Golang (over 1 year of experience)

• Over 4 years of experience designing, building, and deploying user-facing, infrastructure-related, and/or API-based products (Python, PHP...)

  • Experience coding in JavaScript and TypeScript is a plus

• Experience working with container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Continuous Integration is a plus

• Familiarity with CGP is a plus

Soft skills

• Curiosity and the ability to dig into a topic and follow through

• Team spirit: discuss, do not try to impose

• Be pragmatic to not over-engineer unnecessarily: startups need to quickly adapt

• Own what is coded and shipped to production

• Trust & clear communication

• Real interest in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space

About Kiln:

Kiln is the leading enterprise-grade rewards platform that enables institutional customers to stake assets and integrate staking & DeFi functionality into their offerings. Our API-first platform provides fully automated validators, staking & DeFi protocols access, and comprehensive data and commission management.

With $11+ billion in crypto assets staked through our platform, Kiln has established a strong presence on Ethereum, managing over 4.5% of the network through 50,000+ validators — all with zero slashing events.

Kiln serves more than 140 leading customers, including Binance, BitPanda, Bitgo, Fireblocks, VanEck, and TrustWallet.

Our team of 92 ecosystem enthusiasts brings experience from industry leaders like Google, Circle, Ledger, Chainalysis, and other prominent technology and cryptocurrency companies.

We've raised $30M in total funding from prominent investors including 1kx, Crypto.com, Illuminate Financial, Consensys, Wintermute, Kraken Ventures...

Join Kiln and help us make the web more secure, stable, decentralized, and fair!

How Kiln will support you:

At Kiln, our values drive us: Technical Excellence ensures top security and usability; Innovation-Driven Meritocracy elevates groundbreaking ideas; Trust and Transparency build reliability through open communication; and People First keeps our team and clients at the heart of everything we do.

• A fast-paced, bureaucracy-free work environment

• Equity share options in the business: if Kiln succeeds, we all succeed!

• Competitive salary

• Flexible holiday

• Flexible remote working

• Choose your IT equipment

• Contribution to Internet connexion

• Significant personal development budget (books, training)

• Overseas tech conferences budget

Kiln is an Equal Opportunity Employer

We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone is valued and respected. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, including women or persons with disabilities.

Your interview process

Our thorough process ensures the best fit for both you and Kiln, and we strive to make each step valuable and efficient.

1. Recruiter's discussion (45 min) with Myriam

2. Take-home test (< 3 hours)

3. Technical Interview (90 min)

4. Core Values Interview (45 min)

5. Founders Interview (30 min)

6. Offer!

Your personal information will be securely stored in our Applicant Tracking System (ATS) and will not be shared with external parties. We comply fully with GDPR regulations to protect your data and privacy.

Please note that we do not sponsor visas for persons without work authorization in your location. This role is for full-time employees only (no B2B or contractors). Thank you!

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Coinbase is seeking experienced backend engineers to join our Trading team to build and scale the core systems that power crypto trading at Coinbase. From Simple Trade for everyday users to Advanced Trade for professionals, to Derivatives and Decentralized (DEX) trading, we’re building a seamless and secure trading experience for everyone. This is a rare opportunity to work at the intersection of crypto, trading infrastructure, and consumer product — tackling exciting engineering challenges while contributing directly to Coinbase’s core business.

What you'll be doing:

• Power highly performant, highly available systems for traders worldwide
• Architect robust systems that are easy to build on top of supporting many instrument types (Spot, Futures, Perpetual Futures, and more)
• Work in tight collaboration with product and design to articulate a best-in-class product experience
• Translate your best ideas into tangible, high value features our customers love

What we look for in you:

• You have at least 2+ years of experience in software engineering, especially with web-scale traffic
• You’ve designed, built, scaled, and maintained production services as they evolve over time
• You have a high bar for product excellence, pairing customer obsession with comprehensive observability
• You empower and cultivate your teammates. Iron sharpens iron.
• You take pride in being up-to-date with the latest industry standards and best practices

Nice to haves:

• You’ve worked on active trading systems or other similar high availability financial systems
• You actively trade crypto or other financial instruments
• You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from startup to mid-size).
• You have experience upgrading significant parts of legacy systems, or re-architecting next-generation versions of existing systems
• You’ve worked with Golang, MongoDB, Redis before
• You have Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity.

Job #: GCBE04CA

*Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate your onchain experience.

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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. Your interview responses, in the form of a voice recording and/or transcript will be assessed in terms of the job qualifications and characteristics listed in the position description above by a human recruiter.

For other select roles, Coinbase is piloting BrightHire, an AI interview intelligence platform, to transcribe and summarize interview notes, allowing our interviewers to fully focus on you as the candidate.

Depending on your role and stage in the application process, you will be informed of the specifics regarding which tool(s) will be used as part of the interview process.

These interview tools enable us to give a greater number of candidates an initial interview who meet our mandatory hiring criteria. The above pilots are for testing purposes and Coinbase will not use AI to make an employment decision. To request a reasonable accommodation due to disability, please contact email.

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VDEX is a fast-growing DeFi startup focused on building a decentralized perpetual exchange. VDEX is backed by Binance Labs and Gate Exchange and passed $10 million in volume last month.

Powered by Virtual Rollups, the VDEX architecture is designed to overcome the performance and cost limitations of traditional blockchain systems by allowing the users to trade with instant finality, ZeroGas fees and omnichain (trade among different chains without requiring any bridge).

VDEX offers competitive salary and generous equity/token.

Level: Mid to Senior

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with senior developers and blockchain engineers to design and develop backend services in Golang for our DeFi platform and improve our frontend in Typescript.
• Maintain and improve existing backend, frontend, and our smart contracts on EVM chains.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to improving engineering practices.
• Support integration with new features and DeFi protocols.

Requirements

• Solid programming skills in Golang (Go) and Typescript, or willing to learn.
• Understanding of blockchain fundamentals and DeFi concepts like EVM, tokens, yields.
• Strong backend engineering experience, including designing APIs, services, and distributed systems with a focus on reliability and performance.
• Clean code principles: writes well-structured, readable, and testable code, adheres to SOLID principles and practices good software design patterns.
• Previous experience in remote first team, or ability to work independently in a remote-first team.
• Knowledge of basic cryptographic principles and key management.
• Comfortable using Git, Docker, AWS and CI/CD tools.
• Good communication and collaboration skills.
• Self-starter mindset and willingness to learn fast.

Nice to Have

• Understanding of traditional finance concepts like order books, perpetuals and trading concepts.
• Ability to reason in mathematical terms and provide formal arguments of correctness and security of a system.
• Experience working with smart contracts (Solidity).
• Familiarity with Ethereum and etherjs library.
• Contributions to other open-source projects or previous work in DeFi and crypto.
• Understanding of performance tuning, observability, and distributed tracing in backend systems.

The Opportunity

As a Backend Engineer on the Nascent engineering team, you will design and build the next generation of our world-class trading system. You’ll take ownership of critical components, including design, implementation, and maintenance, and integrate directly with financial exchanges. From developing backend architecture in Rust to rigorous code reviews and testing, you’ll champion quality engineering practices across your work. Along the way, you’ll bring structure to ambiguous problems, help shape system architecture and interface design, and serve as an integral partner to our trading team.

You’ll thrive in this role if you love having the freedom to move fast, think creatively, and solve tough problems with a builder’s mindset. You care deeply about doing things right without getting bogged down, you’re comfortable adapting quickly as requirements evolve, and you find as much joy in starting a project as you do in refining and optimizing it over time. If you’re excited to dive deep into Rust, contribute to complex and iterative system development, and help shape the future of trading and crypto, we’d love to work with you. This is a remote position with opportunities for in-person collaboration, requiring core working hours within 5 hours of Eastern Standard Time.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design and build the next phase of a world-class trading system.
• Support development and implementation of a backend, microservice-driven, Rust architecture.
• Ensure resilience and stability through quality code reviews, unit, regression and user acceptance testing, and apply and be a proponent of quality engineering practices.
• Use documentation and specifications to build integrations between selected exchanges and our internal systems.
• Take full ownership of multiple components including design, implementation, and maintenance.
• Bring clarity and structure to ambiguous problems, identifying key requirements and proposing actionable solutions.
• Contribute to system architecture and interface design.

About you

• You crave autonomy and agency to deliver against a shared vision and find real joy in providing solutions to complex problems
• You are resourceful and can toe the line between moving fast and breaking things and moving methodically to get things right the first time
• You are as excited by starting a project as you are completing, maintaining and continually optimizing it
• You proactively contribute creative ideas and novel approaches to product and engineering challenges, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
• You are extremely agile and have a strong ability to adapt quickly to evolving requirements.
• You thrive in less structured environments and are at your best when driving and delivering results with the freedom to build and execute your own plan

Preferred experience

• 2-8 years of full-time software engineering experience, ideally as a systems programmer (Rust, C++, GO). Bonus if you have experience with and/or interest in learning Rust.
• Experience beyond testing (e.g. quality processes, verification & validation)
• Experience building scalable, performant, production-level applications with regular release cycles
• Performance sensitive engineering including multi-threading, streaming data, and concurrency
• Distributed systems, micro services
• Experience building trading systems is a strong plus, with an interest in and enthusiasm for financial markets or the crypto space.

About Nascent&mldr;

Founded in 2020, Nascent exists to build, expand, and capture opportunity, in open markets and permissionless technologies. Building from a base of permanent capital, we deploy assets across a range of both liquid and long-term strategies that ensure we are among the most active users of the open financial system we are helping to build. We’ve made venture investments in 100+ early-stage teams that we believe have the potential to create substantive change, expand boundaries, and find new horizons. We are consistently on the hunt for the most competitive and curious minds exploring the edges of the crypto ecosystem and leverage our hyper flexible structure to accelerate ideas into fully deployed strategies.

Our Team & Culture

At Nascent, we are an interdisciplinary team of investors, builders & creators, capable of achieving more together than we can as individuals. We offer the opportunity to contribute to building the future global economic system with a world-class team and culture that pairs the freedom to explore, experiment & play with a competitive drive to win. We invest in our people by providing the autonomy to build, coupled with accountability & honest feedback to help learn, grow, perform & win. Our distributed team understands the value of in-person time—we encourage team members to come together for more frequent in-person work.

Principles that drive our team & work

• Compete to win
• Explore, experiment, play
• Always be building
• Seek and speak truth
• Own your shit.

What We Offer

At Nascent, we offer a competitive total compensation package heavily weighted toward bonus, ensuring that when we perform at our best and the firm wins we all win.

• The opportunity to learn, experiment and build in an entrepreneurial environment
• Remote and distributed working environment
• Comprehensive health benefits package including dental, vision, and life
• 16 weeks fully paid parental leave & supported return to work
• Home office setup and stipend or coworking space and wellness stipend
• Retirement plan matching contributions
• Open vacation policy as well as flexible work hours and location
• Team activities and in-person team retreats

We are an equal opportunity employer and celebrate diversity and differences of perspectives. We do not discriminate on the basis of any status, inclusive of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Coinbase is seeking aspiring backend engineers to join our team to build out the next generation of crypto-forward products and features. You will solve unique, large scale, highly complex technical problems, bridging the constraints posed by web-scale applications and blockchain technology. You will help build the next generation of systems to make cryptocurrency accessible to everyone across the globe, operating real-time applications with high frequency, low latency updates, and managing the most secure, dockerized infrastructure running in the cloud.

The Consumer Product Group engineers strive to make the Coinbase retail app the easiest-to-use and fastest experience for accessing the crypto. Wallet is the future of web3 and of Coinbase. Suite of products include: Coinbase app, advance trade, dapps, and staking.

Join Coinbase's Country Expansion team to influence the future of cryptocurrency adoption in the UK. Collaborate with the Country Director, Product Managers, and cross-functional teams to customize the Coinbase app, tailoring it to the UK market and strategically shaping Coinbase's presence through innovative features and a customer-first approach.

What you'll be doing:

• You will write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
• You will execute scoped technical tasks end-to-end to help Coinbase fulfill its mission to increase economic freedom in the world
• You will independently take ownership over the completion and quality of your tasks and projects
• Show bias for action, and data-driven decisions to experiment new solutions as fast as possible
• You will be collaborating with the Country Manager, other engineers, product managers and designers at Coinbase

What we look for in you:

• You have graduated university with internship and industry experience
• You write high quality, well tested code
• You build resilient and scalable micro-services
• You’re excited about tackling complex problems and getting things done
• You have experience executing technical tasks and projects end-to-end
• You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together.
• You're an excellent written and verbal communicator in English
• This role is required to be in the UK

Nice to haves:

• You have at least 1+ years of experience with Golang, Protobuff, GRPC, GraphQL, MongoDB, Docker, Ruby on Rails.
• You’ve worked on engineering teams in the finance space
• You are passionate about blockchain technology and a power user of crypto exchange applications or dapps

Job #: GCBE03UK

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Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer at Raiku

As an Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer at Raiku, you will lead critical engineering efforts that drive the performance and scalability of next-generation distributed systems. You’ll join a highly proficient team of core engineers, all of whom have contributed to foundational and novel infrastructure innovations.

We believe in hiring exceptional individuals who are deeply motivated by complex core infrastructure challenges and guided by a coherent system design philosophy that moves our industry forward. Expect frequent group discussions on architecture, design specs, and code reviews. We ship quality code quickly and often — and we are deeply committed to it.

About Raiku

Raiku is reimagining Solana’s transaction and consensus ecosystem by enabling validators to connect directly with purpose-built execution environments. Our platform delivers unprecedented performance, guaranteed transaction inclusion, and deterministic settlement for the next generation of internet-native applications. We unlock radical bandwidth and latency improvements by shifting Solana’s focus to efficient state verification — enabling high-velocity, reliable applications at massive scale​.

About the Team

Our entire platform is built in Rust, connecting Solana’s L1 with advanced L2 extensions and enabling deeply complex network interactions. Your primary focus in this role will involve Rust systems programming, infrastructure architecture (e.g., Kubernetes), and operational scripting across languages such as Rust, Go, and Typescript. Full-stack understanding — from bare metal to application interfaces — is critical to success here.

What You’ll Bring

• 4+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, preferably within high-standard fintech, data, cloud, or DevOps environments.
• Senior-level experience as an SRE or Infrastructure Engineer with a strong Kubernetes background.
• Deep proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform/Terragrunt) and infrastructure automation (Helm, GitOps).
• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting using Prometheus and PromQL.
• Experience with infrastructure and data security practices, including KMS and HashiCorp Vault.
• Ability to ship high-quality, opinionated architectural choices and uphold software best practices.
• Strong communication skills in English (both written and spoken).

Our Stack

• Infrastructure: AWS/GCP + bare metal, Kubernetes, Terraform/Terragrunt, Prometheus/Thanos, Helm, HashiCorp Vault, FluxCD
• Languages: Rust, Golang, Typescript, PostgreSQL
• Smart Contract Development: Anchor, Solana Program Library (SPL)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience operating validators on distributed networks.
• Active engagement with the blockchain security research community, through open-source contributions, publications, or speaking at conferences.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages based on ongoing market analysis, including tokens.
• Remote-first culture with flexible hours — self-initiative and independence are highly valued.
• Work with highly talented engineers passionate about building the future of the internet.
• A collaborative and dynamic work environment that rewards individual ownership and impact.
• Opportunities for rapid professional growth within one of the most technically ambitious projects in web3.

QuickNode is looking to hire a Support Engineer II to join their team. This is a full-time position that can be done remotely anywhere in Portugal or Spain.

QuickNode - A crypto payments service that enables you to buy, hold, sell, swap, send and receive the major currencies.

We’re looking for Staff Software Engineers to balance the role of an individual contributor while also anchoring new projects, leading technical direction and mentoring other engineers on the team. We highly value individuals with intellectual curiosity and openness. We collaborate across the organization, helping our engineers think big and take risks while building a culture of diversity, positive energy and blameless truth-seeking. Our engineering team leverages a diverse tech stack and our focus is finding smart engineers who’ve worked on complex projects.

The Consumer Product Group engineers strive to make the Coinbase retail app the easiest-to-use and fastest experience for accessing the crypto. In 2023, our goal is to be the #1 self custody wallet measured by MTU’s and download share. Wallet is the future of web3 and of Coinbase. Suite of products include: Coinbase app, advance trade, dapps, and staking.

What you’ll be doing:

• Architect and developa mass market interface for digital currency apps by adding new functionality to existing cryptocurrencies (i.e. staking, voting, predicting).
• Provide technical structure to teams and work closely with management and stakeholders to define strategic roadmaps
• Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise
• Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards
• Design and implement foundational infrastructure components used by every engineering team in production (e.g. dynamic configuration, secrets storage, container orchestration, etc)

What we look for in you:

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering
• 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 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 have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices
• 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 #: GCFE06CA

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