Solutions Architect
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As a Solutions Architect on the Sales, Trading and Prime team, you'll help scale our B2B products by bridging technical field engagement with hands-on software development. You'll work directly with customers, from startups to large institutions, as a trusted technical advisor while contributing to open source projects and extending Coinbase's core products to unlock strategic client opportunities. This role involves substantial coding, and candidates must be actively developing and delivering software in their current role.
What you’ll do:
- Partner with customers as a trusted technical advisor, guiding them in building on Coinbase services and APIs and deepening relationships as they scale.
- Collaborate with sales teams to address prospect technical requirements and support deal closure.
- Architect distributed systems solutions for complex customer needs and build open source SDKs and reference implementations.
- Lead customer implementations end-to-end, delivering technical presentations, resolving roadblocks, and partnering with support teams to ensure success.
- Drive collaboration with product and engineering teams to extend core capabilities for strategic client opportunities.
Required skills and experience:
- Degree in computer science and 3+ years of software engineering experience, including expert-level proficiency with REST and WebSocket APIs and production experience with Golang.
- Proven track record designing and building integration solutions across modern and legacy systems for complex, ambiguous customer problems.
- Track record of translating complex technical needs into actionable recommendations for cross-functional stakeholders, including sales, product, and engineering teams.
- Experience with blockchain, crypto, or trading systems.
- Demonstrated ability to independently scope customer requirements and deliver working solutions under tight timelines.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Position ID: P77612
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- Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
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Best personality fits for this role
Your natural leadership helps you drive collaboration with cross-functional teams and lead customer implementations end-to-end.
Read the ENTJ career guide →Your strategic thinking helps you architect complex distributed systems for ambiguous customer needs.
Read the INTJ career guide →Your love for understanding systems makes you great at architecting integration solutions across modern and legacy systems.
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