Remote-First Staff Backend Architect – FinHub Transfers

Coinbase, Inc.; Juneau (AK); Remote; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the FinHub - Transfers team. You will own the architectural direction of high-scale fund movements across crypto and fiat rails, shaping how millions of customers move money on Coinbase.

Lead cross-functional initiatives with Payments, Trading, and product engineering; drive reliability and performance using cloud-native patterns; mentor engineers and raise the bar for correctness in a critical financial system.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
• Experience owning architectural direction and making technical decisions.
• Background in backend programming and cloud-native architecture.

Responsibilities

• Own the architectural direction of Transfers' fund movement systems.
• Lead cross-team engineering initiatives with Payments, Trading, and product teams.
• Evolve backend infrastructure using cloud-native patterns and preempt bottlenecks.
• Set engineering standards, review practices, and mentor engineers on system design.

Skills

Distributed systems architecture

Backend programming

Go/Ruby/Python/Java

Financial systems reliability

Cross-functional mentoring

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the FinHub - Transfers team. You will own the architectural direction of high-scale fund movements across crypto and fiat rails, shaping how millions of customers move money on Coinbase.

Lead cross-functional initiatives with Payments, Trading, and product engineering; drive reliability and performance using cloud-native patterns; mentor engineers and raise the bar for correctness in a critical financial system.