Senior Trade Platform Architect—Low-Latency, Remote-First

Coinbase, Inc.; Charleston (WV); Remote; USD 254,000 - 299,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is building the future of institutional trading as part of the Everything Exchange, powering the systems that let the world's largest financial institutions trade across markets with speed, depth, and trust.

As an Architect on the Trading team, you'll design, build, and own the core trading systems that power Coinbase: order and execution management, algo execution, settlement, multi-venue connectivity, and low-latency messaging that serve our Retail, Prime, and wholesale brokerage

Qualifications

• Hands-on architect with 24/7 trading systems experience.
• Extensive backend engineering ownership of distributed systems.
• Architecting end-to-end trading platform (OMS, front/middle office, multi-exchange connectivity).
• Deep proficiency in low-latency Java and high-throughput messaging.
• Experience delivering end-to-end projects from scoping to monitoring.
• Experience in regulated financial environments prioritizing correctness and auditability.
• Balancing engineering trade-offs with end-user quality in shipped products.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture of the end-to-end trading platform: the sequencer, the low-latency connectivity and messaging fabric, OMS/EMS, multi-venue connectivity, and execution.
• Design low-latency, high-throughput systems for real-time financial products used across institutional and retail markets.
• Drive reliability and performance, owning SLOs, observability, and incident response.
• Set the technical bar through code, design reviews, and standards, and reduce critical tech debt.
• Reduce single-point-of-failure risk across the trading stack and mentor the team.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Risk, Security, and Compliance to turn technical vision into a roadmap.

Skills

Low-latency Java

Distributed systems

Trading platform architecture

OMS/EMS connectivity

Multi-venue connectivity

High-throughput messaging

Tools

Aeron

SBE

Java

Job description

Coinbase is building the future of institutional trading as part of the Everything Exchange, powering the systems that let the world's largest financial institutions trade across markets with speed, depth, and trust.

As an Architect on the Trading team, you'll design, build, and own the core trading systems that power Coinbase: order and execution management, algo execution, settlement, multi-venue connectivity, and low-latency messaging that serve our Retail, Prime, and wholesale brokerage