Senior Staff Engineer, FinHub: Ledger & Payments Platform

Coinbase; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 254,000 - 299,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Equity

Bonus eligibility

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase in New York seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the FinHub ledger and money-movement platform. You will define technical vision, lead cross-team architectural work, and ensure correctness and scalability of financial workflows.

You will collaborate with Payments, Product, Finance, Risk, Compliance, and Operations to align platform goals with business priorities, while mentoring engineers for long-term excellence.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience in large-scale backend systems.
• Experience building financial/ledger/trading or high-consequence transaction systems.
• Backend programming in Go, Java, or Python.
• Ability to drive multi-quarter architectural initiatives across teams without direct authority.
• Strong communication with executives, engineering, product, finance, and operations.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the multi-quarter technical strategy for FinHub's ledger and money-movement platform.
• Architect primitives across fiat and crypto fund flows (balances, holds, settlements, postings, transfers).
• Lead rearchitecture of distributed financial workflows with proper accounting and auditability.
• Drive end-to-end design and rollout of large cross-team initiatives with milestones and migration plans.
• Partner with Payments, Product, Finance, Risk, Compliance, and Operations to align architecture with priorities.
• Mentor senior engineers to raise the bar in design and maintainability.

Skills

12+ years experience

Distributed systems

Go/Java/Python

Strategy leadership

Stakeholder comms

AI governance

Job description

Coinbase in New York seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the FinHub ledger and money-movement platform. You will define technical vision, lead cross-team architectural work, and ensure correctness and scalability of financial workflows.

You will collaborate with Payments, Product, Finance, Risk, Compliance, and Operations to align platform goals with business priorities, while mentoring engineers for long-term excellence.