Staff Backend Engineer — High-Scale Fintech Platform

Coinbase, Inc.; Salem (OR); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is a remote-first company seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own the architectural direction of the Transfers platform. You will steer design decisions across crypto and fiat rails and collaborate with Payments, Trading, and product engineering to deliver scalable fund movement capabilities.

In this high-impact role, you will drive reliability, performance, and scalability of a critical financial platform, mentor engineers across levels, and shape production services where accuracy

Qualifications

• 8+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Backend programming in Go, Ruby, Python, or Java.
• Financial systems with high reliability and auditability.
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture of Transfers' fund movement systems.
• Lead cross-team initiatives with Payments, Trading & product engineering.
• Evolve backend infra using cloud-native patterns.
• Set engineering standards and patterns to reduce risk.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

Go/Python/Java

Cloud architecture

Technical leadership

Generative AI

Job description

Coinbase is a remote-first company seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own the architectural direction of the Transfers platform. You will steer design decisions across crypto and fiat rails and collaborate with Payments, Trading, and product engineering to deliver scalable fund movement capabilities.

In this high-impact role, you will drive reliability, performance, and scalability of a critical financial platform, mentor engineers across levels, and shape production services where accuracy