Forward Deployed Engineer, Finance [Office of the CTO]

Coinbase, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a founding engineer in Finance to surface the most impactful automation opportunities within FP&A and Treasury. You will prototype solutions on Coinbase's AI platform and drive measurable adoption across the organization.

You will embed with Finance leaders, translate workflows into engineering requirements, and shape the build-vs-buy strategy while ensuring auditability and governance for all automated outputs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience in finance-heavy environments.
• Hands-on experience deploying LLM-based applications and AI tooling.
• Ability to translate complex financial workflows into engineering requirements.

Responsibilities

• Embed with FP&A and Treasury leadership to surface automation opportunities with high business leverage.
• Prototype quickly using Coinbase's AI platform and evaluate net-new builds.
• Own the Finance automation roadmap in partnership with leadership.
• Define build-vs-buy strategy for Finance tooling and ensure auditability.
• Ensure all automated outputs are traceable and SOX-compliant.
• Drive adoption through trainings and feedback loops.

Skills

Software engineering

LLM deployments

Stakeholder embedding

SOX/compliance awareness

ERP data flows

Multi-agent orchestration

AI tooling

Tools

NetSuite

Workday

Anaplan

Job description

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.

Coinbase's FP&A & Treasury organization manages financial planning and analysis across 60+ global subsidiaries, period-end close, GL reconciliation, intercompany eliminations, regulatory filings, budgeting, forecasting, and treasury operations. This role sits directly inside the Office of the CTO, embedded as a founding engineer within Finance. You'll identify high-value workflow opportunities, rapidly prototype solutions using Coinbase's existing AI platform, and drive measurable adoption of AI tooling across the FP&A & Treasury org. You'll be the connective tissue between Finance stakeholders and the engineering teams who maintain Coinbase's AI platform, acting as advocate, translator, and builder in one.

What you'll do:

• Embed with FP&A and Treasury leadership to surface the automation opportunities with the greatest business leverage — developing ground-level understanding of workflows like period-end close, variance analysis, and liquidity stress-testing before writing a single line of code.
• Prototype quickly and pragmatically using Coinbase's existing AI platform as the default foundation before recommending net-new builds.
• Own the Finance automation roadmap in partnership with the VP of FP&A & Treasury, translating complex financial workflows — budgeting cycles, GL reconciliation, multi-entity consolidation, regulatory filing drafts — into engineering requirements and engineering constraints back to stakeholders clearly.
• Define the build-vs-buy strategy for Finance tooling, evaluating what Coinbase should build internally, adopt from partner teams, procure from vendors, or retire.
• Ensure every automated financial output is traceable, reviewable, and defensible to auditors — with SOX compliance, segregation of duties, and human-in-the-loop controls as first-class design concerns.
• Drive adoption through brown-bags, prototype walkthroughs, and feedback loops that bring FP&A and Treasury teams along on the journey and ensure tools actually get used.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with a demonstrated ability to ship production systems in ambiguous, stakeholder-heavy environments, with greenfield experience a strong plus.
• Hands-on experience deploying LLM-based applications, including prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, hallucination guardrails, and human-in-the-loop design for high-stakes financial outputs.
• Proven ability to embed with non-technical domain experts, rapidly internalize complex workflows, and translate them into engineering requirements.
• Familiarity with financial systems concepts: ERP data flows (NetSuite, Workday, Anaplan), reconciliation logic, trial balances, and SOX-controlled environments
• Does not need to be a CPA, but should be open to learning
• Familiarity with multi-agent orchestration concepts including how agent systems handle handoffs, escalation, and auditability
• Experience in a Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, or embedded technical advisory capacity, ideally in fintech, finance-tech, or enterprise automation environments.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Pay Transparency Notice

Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):

$218,025 — $256,500 USD