Coinbase.com (YC S12) Hiring First Engineer

Work with Rails and #Bitcoin. @coinbase is hiring

Bitcoin is helping shape the future of payments - and as the first YC-backed bitcoin company, we're right in the thick of it. We're off to a great start - 15% growth per week in transaction volume, closed a deal with a major U.S. bank, and raised a $600k seed round. We're now looking for a great engineer to join the team (founder is also an engineer - worked on fraud prevention at Airbnb and previously build another company to profitability).You: * Full-stack generalist, comfortable shipping features from conception to launch * Experience building large scale Rails apps, designing APIs, building mobile apps, and javascript front ends (jQuery, Coffeescript) * Uncanny ability to create user interfaces that non-technical people can use, and communicate complex ideas rapidly * Strong CS background, comfortable optimizing databases, good understanding of web app security * Pass...

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