Lead Architect, End-to-End Low-Latency Trading

Coinbase; Olympia (WA); On-site; USD 254,000 - 299,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is building the future of institutional trading as part of the Everything Exchange. As an Architect on the Trading team, you’ll design, build, and own core trading systems, including order and execution management, multi-venue connectivity, and low-latency messaging.

This role requires hands-on leadership, experience delivering end-to-end projects in a regulated financial environment, and a commitment to reliability, observability, and high-availability architectures.

Qualifications

• Hands-on architect who can design, build, deploy, and support 24/7 trading systems.
• Extensive backend engineering experience with distributed systems.
• Experience architecting end-to-end trading platform (OMS/EMS, multi-exchange) not a single gateway.
• Deep proficiency in low-latency Java and high-throughput messaging.
• Experience delivering projects end-to-end: scoping, architecture, implementation, monitoring, iteration.
• Experience in regulated financial environments with auditability and latency requirements.
• Experience making user-facing product decisions balancing engineering trade-offs.
• Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight to improve workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture of the end-to-end trading platform: the sequencer, the low-latency connectivity and messaging fabric, OMS/EMS, multi-venue connectivity, and execution.
• Design low-latency, high-throughput systems for real-time financial products used across institutional and retail markets.
• Drive reliability and performance, owning SLOs, observability, and incident response for systems where correctness and latency are non-negotiable.
• Set the technical bar through code, design reviews, and standards, and pay down the technical debt that matters most.
• Reduce single-point-of-failure risk across the trading stack and build team resilience through mentorship.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Risk, Security, and Compliance to turn technical vision into a roadmap.

Skills

End-to-end architecture

Backend engineering

Low-latency Java

High-throughput messaging

Distributed systems

Product decisions

Regulated environment

Mentorship

Job description

Coinbase is building the future of institutional trading as part of the Everything Exchange. As an Architect on the Trading team, you’ll design, build, and own core trading systems, including order and execution management, multi-venue connectivity, and low-latency messaging.

This role requires hands-on leadership, experience delivering end-to-end projects in a regulated financial environment, and a commitment to reliability, observability, and high-availability architectures.