Senior Staff Backend Software Engineer, Coinbase

• 10+ years of software engineering experience in large-scale distributed systems
• Deep expertise in payments or traditional finance
• Demonstrated experience in architecting and building high-throughput, low-latency financial systems that can handle $500M monthly processing volumes
• Strong understanding of funds flow, reconciliation, and invariants
• Proven ability to lead complex, cross-organizational initiatives and drive architectural cohesion
• Strong mentoring skills and a passion for leveling up teammates
• Experience working on consumer products with a bias towards strong design and UX

Desirable

• Join Coinbase's Financial Services & Loyalty (FS&L) team to build Trade-Fi utility using blockchain advantages
• FS&L is responsible for high-impact products like payments, credit card, on-chain borrowing and lending, staking, and CB One subscription, serving millions of users
• We're looking for a deeply technical leader to define the North Star engineering vision for diver FS&L, drive architectural cohesion across our diverse product suite, and ensure our high-throughput systems are scalable and reliable
• You will lead multi-quarter, cross-organizational initiatives and be a critical mentor to other senior engineers
• Define and drive the technical vision and strategy for FS&L, ensuring systems achieve high throughput, low latency, and scale
• Architect and build mission-critical financial systems (e.g., card processing, loan repayments) with a focus on funds flow, reconciliation, and invariants
• Drive developer productivity by advocating for new tooling (Go, Temporal, K8, MongoDB) and AI adoption
• Mentor and coach team members to foster growth and technical excellence
• Partner with Product/Engineering leaders to align on long-term product and engineering strategy
• Lead the creation of reusable platforms for adoption across Coinbase