Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Trading)

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68d • $218,025 - $256,500

About The Position

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. The Staff Software Engineer - Backend (Trading) on the Consumer Portfolio Team will play a critical dual role: as a deeply technical individual contributor and a strategic technical leader. You will anchor new projects, define the technical direction for the Portfolio experience, and mentor a growing team, all while helping realize Coinbase's 'Everything Exchange' strategy. The Consumer Portfolio team owns the core portfolio experience for all retail users, providing the low-latency platform for balance, position, and performance tracking. This is one of the most engaged-with areas of the Coinbase app, supporting millions of users and billions of transactions across multiple product types. This role is for an engineer who thrives on tackling complex, high-impact distributed systems that require high reliability and performance—especially in a trading and financial technology context.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant experience architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous, high-impact problems.
• Demonstrated experience with low-latency, event-driven, or distributed systems.
• A strong signal if you have a background in building consumer facing trading products or any application that handles large amounts of streaming data.
• Passion for building an open financial system that brings the world together.
• Intellectual curiosity, openness, and a passion for building a culture of positive energy and blameless truth-seeking.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with trading systems or portfolio management products.
• Familiarity with the tech stack, including Golang, Clickhouse, Kafka, Redis, MongoDB.
• Experience building financial, high reliability, or security systems.
• Background in Blockchains (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum) or crypto-forward experience (e.g., interacting with Ethereum addresses, ENS, dApps).
• Experience with a company going through rapid growth (from 10 to 100s of engineers).

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical leader and strategist for the Consumer Portfolio team, defining multi-quarter technical strategies that intersect multiple financial products.
• Architect, develop, and own distributed systems that power low-latency portfolio tracking for all Consumer users.
• Provide technical structure and partner closely with management and stakeholders to translate business goals into a defined strategic roadmap.
• Design and implement foundational, high-performance infrastructure components, leveraging tools like Kafka and Clickhouse in an event-sourced architecture.
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables with strong technical expertise.
• Mentor and coach other team members on advanced design techniques, coding standards, and best practices for building robust value-add products.
• Leverage our modern, diverse tech stack to write high-quality, production-ready code that is thoroughly tested and delivers a critical product to market.

Benefits

• Full time offers from Coinbase include bonus eligibility + equity eligibility + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees