Senior Staff Software Engineer, Finhub

Coinbase; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 254,000 - 299,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a senior engineering leader to shape the multi-quarter strategy for FinHub's ledger and money-movement platform. You will architect reusable primitives for fiat and crypto flows, oversee complex cross-team initiatives, and ensure correctness, auditability, and scalable design across large distributed systems.

You will mentor senior engineers, collaborate with Payments, Product, Finance, and Compliance, and advocate for responsible AI use with human oversight to improve

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience in production environments.
• Experience designing financial/ledger/payments systems with auditability.
• Backend in Go, Java, or Python with strong system design skills.
• Leads complex architectural work across teams without direct authority.
• Communicates tradeoffs clearly to execs and stakeholders.
• Uses generative AI with human oversight to improve workflows.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive 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 strong correctness.
• Drive end-to-end design and rollout of large cross-team initiatives.
• Partner with Payments, Product, Finance, Risk, Compliance, and Operations.
• Mentor senior staff engineers to raise the bar on design and maintainability.

Skills

12+ years software engineering

Distributed backend systems

Financial systems design

Go, Java, Python

Multi-quarter strategic leadership

Executive communication

Responsible AI usage

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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