Staff Software Engineer, Backend – FinHub
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Job Description
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

















