Staff Software Engineer, Backend – FinHub

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Staff backend engineer architecting Coinbase’s crypto and fiat fund-movement systems. Leading distributed-platform scalability, reliability, and financial-integrity initiatives.

Responsibilities:

  • Own the technical architecture of Transfers’ fund movement systems across crypto and fiat rails
  • Lead complex, cross-team engineering initiatives with Payments, Trading, and product engineering teams
  • Deliver new fund movement capabilities and platform improvements
  • Evolve backend infrastructure using modern cloud-native patterns
  • Identify scaling bottlenecks and architect solutions proactively
  • Establish engineering standards, code review practices, and architectural patterns
  • Reduce operational risk in high-correctness financial systems
  • Mentor engineers on system design, distributed systems best practices, and production services
  • Drive reliability and scalability improvements for systems enabling fund movement across Coinbase products

Requirements:

  • 8+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production
  • Demonstrated experience owning architectural direction and making long-term technical decisions
  • Deep expertise in backend programming, such as Go, Ruby, Python, or Java
  • Expertise in cloud-native architecture
  • 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 systems
  • Experience with transaction integrity, idempotency, and auditability
  • Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives and mentoring engineers
  • Ability to translate complex distributed systems problems into architectural decisions and actionable roadmaps
  • Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight
  • US work location/authorization context indicated by “Remote - USA” and US applicant notices

Benefits:

  • Equity eligibility
  • Bonus eligibility
  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Quarterly in-person working sessions (“surges”)
  • Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities
  • Equal opportunity employment