Lead Backend Architect for FinHub Ledger & Payments

Coinbase; Miami (FL); Hybrid; USD 254,000 - 299,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the FinHub team, part of the Platform Product Group. You will define the technical vision for financial infrastructure powering balances and money movement, and lead the evolution of ledger systems for correctness, security, reliability, and scale.

You will mentor senior engineers, drive large cross-team initiatives, and collaborate with Payments, Product, Finance, Risk, Compliance, and Operations to align architecture with business

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience in production-grade systems.
• Experience designing financial or high-consequence transaction systems.
• Expertise in distributed systems, consistency models, asynchronous workflows, and state machines.
• Ability to lead architectural initiatives across multiple teams without direct authority.
• Strong ability to communicate tradeoffs and align stakeholders.
• Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the multi-quarter technical strategy for FinHub's ledger and money-movement platform, supporting new financial products, platforms, and growth.
• Architect unified, reusable primitives across fiat and crypto fund flows, including account balances, holds, settlements, postings, transfers, and transaction history.
• Lead the rearchitecture of distributed financial workflows and state transitions, enforcing double-entry accounting, idempotency, invariant enforcement, reconciliation, and auditability.
• Drive end-to-end design and rollout of large, cross-team initiatives with clear milestones, migration plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Partner with Payments, Product, Finance, Risk, Compliance, and Operations to align platform architecture with customer experience and regulatory obligations.
• Provide deep technical mentorship to senior and staff engineers to raise the bar on system design and maintainability.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend programming

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder communication

Generative AI governance

Job description

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the FinHub team, part of the Platform Product Group. You will define the technical vision for financial infrastructure powering balances and money movement, and lead the evolution of ledger systems for correctness, security, reliability, and scale.

You will mentor senior engineers, drive large cross-team initiatives, and collaborate with Payments, Product, Finance, Risk, Compliance, and Operations to align architecture with business