Senior Software Engineer, Institutional, Settlements & Transfers
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Senior backend engineer building Coinbase’s institutional settlements and transfers infrastructure. Designing scalable financial systems across fiat, crypto, and internal ledgers.
Responsibilities:
- Own the design, build, and scaling of backend services that process settlements and transfers across fiat, crypto, and internal ledger systems.
- Drive code quality and maintainability through rigorous code reviews, refactoring, and active participation across all stages of the development lifecycle.
- Lead performance and scalability improvements for critical financial infrastructure, including troubleshooting, triaging, and resolving production issues.
- Partner with product managers, engineering managers, and cross-functional teams to translate product vision into quarterly technical roadmaps and deliverables.
- Propose and implement architectural improvements that accelerate team velocity, reduce tech debt, and strengthen system reliability.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers on technical best practices and professional growth, raising the bar across the team.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, including designing, building, and maintaining production services at scale.
- Production experience with Go (or similar backend language), relational data stores (Postgres or equivalent), and message-based architectures (Kafka or equivalent).
- Demonstrated ability to own system design decisions, lead technical proposals, and drive alignment across a team of engineers.
- Track record of identifying and resolving quality, performance, and scalability issues in distributed systems.
- Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to a culture of high code quality through thorough reviews, testing, and documentation.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Benefits:
- Equity and bonus eligibility
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges”













