Senior Backend Engineer - Settlements & Transfers (Remote)

Coinbase Bridge; United States; Remote; USD 208,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Quarterly in-person surges

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend for the Foundations, Settlements and Transfers team within the Institutional group. You will own the backend systems that move funds across fiat, crypto, and internal ledgers for institutional clients.

You will drive technical direction, mentor engineers, and build the next generation of financial systems at scale. The role emphasizes architecture decisions, performance improvements, and cross-functional collaboration in a remote-first

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• Experience with Go and relational data stores (Postgres) and Kafka.
• Ability to own system design decisions and drive alignment across a team.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, build, and scaling of backend services that process settlements and transfers across fiat, crypto, and internal ledger systems.
• Drive code quality through rigorous code reviews, refactoring, and active participation across all stages of the development lifecycle.
• Lead performance and scalability improvements for critical financial infrastructure, including troubleshooting, triaging, and resolving production issues.
• Partner with product managers, engineering managers, and cross-functional teams to translate product vision into quarterly technical roadmaps and deliverables.
• Propose and implement architectural improvements that accelerate team velocity, reduce tech debt, and strengthen system reliability.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers on technical best practices and professional growth, raising the bar across the team.

Skills

Backend design

Go programming

PostgreSQL

Kafka

System scalability

Code reviews

Architecture decisions

Mentoring

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend for the Foundations, Settlements and Transfers team within the Institutional group. You will own the backend systems that move funds across fiat, crypto, and internal ledgers for institutional clients.

You will drive technical direction, mentor engineers, and build the next generation of financial systems at scale. The role emphasizes architecture decisions, performance improvements, and cross-functional collaboration in a remote-first