Staff Software Engineer, Backend - FinHub (Transfers)
About The Position
As a Staff Software Engineer on Coinbase’s FinHub - Transfers team within the Platform group, you will own the architectural direction of systems that power crypto and fiat fund movements across Coinbase. The team builds a high-scale distributed financial platform that enables fund movement for Retail, Prime, Exchange, International, and Payments products. You will make key technical decisions, improve reliability and scalability, and lead cross-functional initiatives affecting how customers move money on Coinbase. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Employees are expected to gather quarterly for in-person working sessions called “surges.”
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
- Demonstrated experience owning architectural direction and making technical decisions that shape a team’s or domain’s long-term trajectory.
- Deep expertise in backend programming, such as Go, Ruby, Python, or Java, and cloud-native architecture.
- Proven ability to design highly available, high-throughput systems where correctness is critical.
- Track record delivering and scaling financial systems, fund movement platforms, or similarly high-reliability domains where transaction integrity, idempotency, and auditability are core requirements.
- Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives, mentoring engineers, and translating complex distributed systems problems into architectural decisions and actionable roadmaps.
- Ability to use generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical architecture of Transfers’ fund movement systems, including design decisions about distributed system structure, correctness guarantees, and scalability across crypto and fiat rails.
- Lead complex, cross-team engineering initiatives from start to finish, partnering with Payments, Trading, and product engineering teams to deliver fund movement capabilities and platform improvements.
- Evolve Transfers’ backend infrastructure using modern cloud-native patterns and identify scaling bottlenecks before they affect customers.
- Establish engineering standards, code review practices, and architectural patterns to improve quality and reduce operational risk in high-correctness financial systems.
- Mentor engineers across levels on system design, distributed systems practices, and building reliable production services.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- 401(k).
- Total compensation may include equity and bonus eligibility.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
