Staff Backend Engineer - Remote-First, High-Scale Finance

Coinbase, Inc.; Boise (ID); Remote; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Staff Software Engineer on the FinHub - Transfers team. You will own the architectural direction of fund movements across crypto and fiat rails and drive reliability and scalability for a high-scale financial platform.

You will lead cross-functional initiatives with Payments, Trading, and product engineering, shape design decisions, and mentor engineers while upholding financial integrity. This remote-first company emphasizes in-person surges quarterly.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
• Backend programming in Go, Ruby, Python, or Java with cloud-native architecture.
• Experience delivering high-reliability financial systems with strong correctness.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and mentoring engineers.
• Uses generative AI responsibly with human oversight for outputs.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical architecture of Transfers' fund movement systems and drive design decisions.
• Lead cross-team engineering initiatives end-to-end with Payments, Trading, and product teams.
• Evolve backend infrastructure using cloud-native patterns and mitigate scaling bottlenecks.
• Establish engineering standards, code reviews, and patterns to reduce operational risk.

Skills

Go

Ruby

Python

Java

Job description

Coinbase is hiring a Staff Software Engineer on the FinHub - Transfers team. You will own the architectural direction of fund movements across crypto and fiat rails and drive reliability and scalability for a high-scale financial platform.

You will lead cross-functional initiatives with Payments, Trading, and product engineering, shape design decisions, and mentor engineers while upholding financial integrity. This remote-first company emphasizes in-person surges quarterly.