Senior Staff Software Engineer, Finhub

Jackalope Digital LLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 254,000 - 299,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Medical benefits

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase is a remote-first company that seeks a senior technology leader to design and implement scalable, compliant financial systems. You will shape multi-quarter strategies for ledger and money-movement platforms, mentor senior engineers, and collaborate with product, finance, and risk teams to align architecture with business priorities.

The role emphasizes robust design, auditability, and long-term maintainability.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience in production-grade backend distributed systems.
• Experience with financial, payments, ledger, or high-consequence transaction systems.
• Backend programming with Go, Java, or Python.
• Ability to lead architectural initiatives across multiple teams without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the multi-quarter technical strategy for FinHub's ledger and money-movement platform.
• Architect unified primitives across fiat and crypto fund flows.
• Lead rearchitecture of distributed financial workflows with auditability and safe failure recovery.
• Drive end-to-end design and rollout of cross-team initiatives with milestones and migration plans.
• Partner with Payments, Product, Finance, Risk, Compliance, and Operations to align architecture with goals and regulators.
• Provide deep technical mentorship to senior engineers and raise the bar for maintainability.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go/Java/Python

Technical leadership

Communication with stakeholders

Generative AI responsibly

Job description

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.”learn more about working at Coinbase.

What you'll do:

• Define and drive the multi-quarter technical strategy for FinHub's ledger and money-movement platform, supporting new financial products, platforms, and significant growth in transaction volume.
• 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 standards for double-entry accounting, idempotency, invariant enforcement, reconciliation, auditability, and safe failure recovery.
• Drive end-to-end design and rollout of large, cross-team initiatives, breaking complex and ambiguous problems into clear milestones, migration plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Partner with Payments, Product, Finance, Risk, Compliance, and Operations to align platform architecture with customer experience, regulatory obligations, and business priorities.
• Provide deep technical mentorship to senior and staff engineers, raising the bar for system design, operational excellence, technical writing, and long-term maintainability across FinHub.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including a track record of building and operating large-scale backend distributed systems in production.
• Deep experience designing financial, payments, ledger, banking, trading, or other high-consequence transaction systems where correctness and auditability are non-negotiable.
• Proven expertise in distributed systems, consistency models, asynchronous workflows, and state machines, with strong backend programming experience in languages such as Go, Java, or Python.
• Experience driving multi-quarter technical strategy and leading complex architectural initiatives across multiple engineering teams without relying on direct authority.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical tradeoffs clearly and build alignment with executive, engineering, product, finance, and operations stakeholders.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Pay Transparency Notice:Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):

$253,895 — $298,700 USD

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