Platform Engineering Manager — Financial Intelligence

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

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking an Engineering Manager for the FINT team within FinHub in the Platform group. You will lead engineers building the universal account primitive, real-time transaction history, and the internal developer experience platform.

You’ll re-architect foundational systems to scale and enable new financial products. You will guide a team through a critical inflection point, shape architecture across distributed systems, and collaborate with leadership to deliver quarterly roadmaps

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software engineering with at least 2 years of engineering management experience.
• Proven track record delivering and operating distributed systems at scale.
• Translating ambiguous, long-horizon technical problems into concrete execution plans with measurable milestones.
• Experience with financial systems, event-driven architectures, or high-precision transaction processing where correctness and reliability are critical.
• Comfort leading teams with backend services, streaming pipelines, and full-stack tooling; appreciation for developer and operator UX.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of 6 engineers across multiple levels, coaching on technical excellence, career development, and organizational impact
• Drive the re-architecture of core account and history systems to support new product primitives and higher throughput demands
• Own the Finhub Tools roadmap, building internal UIs, dashboards, and agentic workflows that accelerate engineering and operations teams across the company
• Shape architectural decisions across distributed systems, streaming pipelines, and full-stack tooling, fostering a culture of high-quality code and thorough design reviews
• Collaborate with product, finance, and engineering leadership to define and execute a quarterly roadmap, breaking complex infrastructure projects into iterative, shippable milestones
• Partner with the talent organization to recruit exceptional engineers and own engineering quality processes including SLA accountability, incident response, and on-call practices

Skills

Software engineering

Engineering management

Team leadership

Incident response

System design

Code reviews

Job description

Coinbase is seeking an Engineering Manager for the FINT team within FinHub in the Platform group. You will lead engineers building the universal account primitive, real-time transaction history, and the internal developer experience platform.

You’ll re-architect foundational systems to scale and enable new financial products. You will guide a team through a critical inflection point, shape architecture across distributed systems, and collaborate with leadership to deliver quarterly roadmaps